For CFOs and finance leaders
Know what your India centre will cost, and what the state will pay back
Your business case was probably built on salary arbitrage. The parts it misses are the incentives states now offer for GCCs, the timing of the 20–30 purchase categories that follow launch, and the cost of automating rather than hiring for each new mandate.
- Incentives exist but are fragmented across states, thresholds and filing windows, and they are easy to forfeit.
- Location is often decided before incentive value is known.
- Opex lines such as transport, BGV, SaaS and security appear late and unbudgeted.
- HQ expects automation savings without a baseline to measure them against.
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GCC Incentive & Cost Estimator
An indicative range of state incentives your centre could recover, set against its five-year spend.
Scutiger · GCC Incentive & Cost Estimator
Indicative incentive range over 5 years
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On a 30-minute call we turn this into a claim plan with eligibility gaps, filing timeline and a success-fee model.
Assumptions and sources
What this is: an indicative estimate built from each state's published GCC or IT policy parameters (rates, per-employee amounts, durations and caps), applied to your inputs over a five-year window. It is not tax or legal advice.
Alternatives are not added together. Where a policy offers alternative slabs (zones, size categories, Tier-1 vs beyond-metro), the estimator takes the best-fitting slab per incentive type for the ceiling. Your actual slab depends on location, investment size and category. Some policies also make two incentives mutually exclusive (for example capital or rent support), and caps may apply per year rather than in total. The ceiling ignores both and errs high, which is one reason the planning range is lower.
Planning range = 30–60% of the ceiling. This is our assumption, not a published statistic. Eligibility conditions such as domicile or category limits on payroll support, first-mover quotas, eligible-cost definitions and filing timelines usually mean only part of the ceiling is claimable. We confirm eligibility line by line on the call.
Bases used: payroll = seats × CTC (per-employee caps applied); capex = your capex input; rent = seats × rent per seat; bandwidth = 25%, power = 35% and cloud = 40% of other opex; generic opex support = rent + other opex; recruitment = 8% of first-year CTC per hire; training = ₹40,000 per head when only a percentage is published. Seats ramp from year 1 to year 3 and hold flat after.
Not estimated: electricity-duty exemptions, stamp duty, land, interest subsidies, R&D, patent, certification and CoE grants, and case-by-case packages. They are listed but not added in.
Policy parameters come from the state policy documents linked in the table, verified by our team. See the GCC City Index for each state's full policy summary.
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Our team has set up and scaled GCCs for global enterprises. Scutiger has built production software since 2014, and we use agentic AI in our own delivery every day.
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