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This page shows summary Doing Business 2009 data for the selected cities in India. The first table shows its rank among 17 Indian cities. The other tables summarize the key indicators for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business, benchmarked against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.

Note: Doing Business uses data from Mumbai to calculate India's country rankings.

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India - Bengaluru

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Ease of... Rank among 17 cities in India Top city in India
Doing Business13 Ludhiana
Starting a Business 17 New Delhi
Dealing with Construction Permits 1 Bengaluru
Registering Property 4 Gurgaon
Paying Taxes 12 Ludhiana
Trading Across Borders 9 Bhubaneshwar
Enforcing Contracts 15 Hyderabad
8 Hyderabad
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Starting a Business

The challenges of launching a business are shown below. Included are: the number of steps entrepreneurs can expect to go through to launch, the time it takes on average, and the cost and minimum capital required as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) per capita.
Indicator Bengaluru South Asia OECD Average
Procedures (number) 13 7.3 5.7
Time (days) 40 28.1 13.0
Cost (% of income per capita) 64.7 27.0 4.7
Min. capital (% of income per capita) 0.0 26.9 15.5

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Dealing with Construction Permits

Shown below are the procedures, time, and costs to build a warehouse, including obtaining necessary licenses and permits, completing required notifications and inspections, and obtaining utility connections.
Indicator Bengaluru South Asia OECD Average
Procedures (number) 15 18.4 15.1
Time (days) 97 241.0 157.0
Cost (% of income per capita) 1,158.7 2,310.6 56.1

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Registering Property

The ease with which businesses can secure rights to property is shown below. Included are the number of steps, time, and cost involved in registering property.
Indicator Bengaluru South Asia OECD Average
Procedures (number) 5 6.3 4.7
Time (days) 28 105.9 25.0
Cost (% of property value) 9.2 5.6 4.6

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Paying Taxes

The data below shows the tax that a medium-size company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes. These measures include the number of payments an entrepreneur must make; the number of hours spent preparing, filing, and paying; and the percentage of their profits they must pay in taxes.
Indicator Bengaluru South Asia OECD Average
Payments (number per year) 59 31.3 12.8
Time (hours per year) 291 284.5 194.1
Profit tax (%) 21.6 17.9 16.8
Labor tax and contributions (%) 18.2 7.8 24.4
Other taxes (%) 30.5 14.2 3.3
Total tax rate (% profit) 70.3 40.0 44.5

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Trading Across Borders

The costs and procedures involved in importing and exporting a standardized shipment of goods are detailed under this topic. Every official procedure involved is recorded - starting from the final contractual agreement between the two parties, and ending with the delivery of the goods.
Indicator Bengaluru South Asia OECD Average
Documents to export (number) 8 8.5 4.3
Time to export (days) 25 32.4 10.5
Cost to export (US$ per container) 783 1,364.1 1,089.7
Documents to import (number) 9 9.0 4.9
Time to import (days) 25 32.2 11.0
Cost to import (US$ per container) 1,024 1,509.1 1,145.9

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Enforcing Contracts

The ease or difficulty of enforcing commercial contracts is measured below. This is determined by following the evolution of a payment dispute and tracking the time, cost, and number of procedures involved from the moment a plaintiff files the lawsuit until actual payment.
Indicator Bengaluru South Asia OECD Average
Procedures (number) 46 43.5 30.6
Time (days) 1,058 1,052.9 462.4
Cost (% of claim) 32.5 27.2 19.2

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Closing a Business

The time and cost required to resolve bankruptcies is shown below. The data identifies weaknesses in existing bankruptcy law and the main procedural and administrative bottlenecks in the bankruptcy process. The recovery rate, expressed in terms of how many cents on the dollar claimants recover from the insolvent firm, is also shown.
Indicator Bengaluru South Asia OECD Average
Time (years) 7.3 4.5 1.7
Cost (% of estate) 10 6.5 8.4
Recovery rate (cents on the dollar) 14.1 20.4 68.6

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