Recently the Indian Government has scrapped conciliation talks with Vodafone, the FT reports that Nokia has appealed to India’s Supreme Court over an unrelated $1.1bn tax squabble while a recent legal decision effectively prevents Nokia from transferring Indian assets as part of its €5.4bn phone business sale to Microsoft. The deputy chief executive of KPMG in the India said: “This is a pretty dark day for India’s image abroad. I am party to several discussions involving foreign companies who say that, if we have a choice, we will expand outside India because there is no certainty over tax.”