I am no guru, but I fail to see how they plan to enforce that. I mean, almost every/any US co worth its name outsources *some* work from India or some other low cost country. And its not like companies can cut out the outsourcing arrangements and leave overnight AFAIK - the time, effort and costs involved in de-linking from your outsourcing service provider(no matter what service/product you outsource) should be significant I believe. Just see the Satyam example - IIRC one phirang analyst had commented on how most of the client's stuff was 'inside the head' of Satyam employees which made breaking the links very difficult unless they took entire teams (both on and offshore components)on board. My limited experience taught me one lesson and that was 'Documentation is not all that it is made out to be'. Ask Nayak if you wantbart wrote:What will be the impact of the below on the IT/BPO industry?
http://www.rediff.com/money/2009/feb/25 ... -obama.htm
I am not so familiar with the business model and tax structure used by outsourcing companies, so would appreciate if some guru would elaborate. From what I gather this should impact companies with captive offshore units and not those that have contracts with US/Indian outsourcers, right? Also wouldn't it be shooting themselves in themselves in the foot if companies like Coca Cola, GE etc that have most of their consumers abroad lose a larger proportion of the profits they make for foreign operations?

On a serious note, I think some IT service gurus here can elaborate more.