The gov­ern­ment is like­ly to expand the scope of Served from India Scheme (SFIS) by allow­ing exporters to trade the tax incen­tives earned by them in a bid to spur ser­vices exports.

The incen­tives are in the form of duty cred­it scrips that can be used to pay the cus­toms duty on input imports of cap­i­tal goods or consumables.

If the incen­tives are made trad­able, exporters from sec­tors such as edu­ca­tion, health­care, health­care, con­sul­tan­cy and real estate that do not import much will be able to sell them in.…..