Jobs to be outsourced include those in information system support, payroll, and compensation and benefits delivery, said Ben Deutsch, a company spokesman.
Each one spawns volumes of related regulations as well as periodic amendments—a boon for firms that support payroll, withholding or personnel tasks.
As the New York Times reported last week, economist Nigel Gault also supports payroll tax cuts.
Mphasis, based in Bangalore, employs 12,000 workers who provide accounting, customer support and payroll services to companies in industries like financial services, technology and health care.
But at a meeting later in the afternoon with Mr. Paterson, a group of senators from suburban districts told him they would not support the payroll tax.
Whatever the Yankees' actual revenue is, it must support the payroll, revenue-sharing and luxury-tax payments, and various other expenses like player development.
Republican leaders have said they might support the payroll tax cut's extension if its cost is offset by equal spending cuts, a condition they did not apply for extending the Bush-era tax cuts on high incomes.
The $3.5 billion Indian outsourcing industry, which provides services like online technical support and payroll processing, has expanded rapidly, drawing from the India's large skilled, English-speaking labor pool.
"Sure, I would want to get involved, but we've been premeditatively kept out of it," Mr. Padavan said, adding that he would support a payroll tax but saw bridge tolls as problematic.
Shared service centers have emerged since the 1990s and refer to a variety of functions: information technology, SAP support, accounting, payroll, management reporting, purchasing, call centers, help lines, market surveys via phone or the internet.
Wave now hopes to be exactly that, and in addition to its existing products, will be launching iOS companion apps to support their payroll software in early 2013, as well as for receipt scanning with OCR and direct input into their accounting products.
