In order to encourage financial savings, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) constituted an eight-member working group to study issues relating to taxation of financial instruments in India and suggest rationalization. The terms of reference of the working group, convened by Balbir Kaur, adviser in the department of economic and policy research at the central bank, includes reviewing current tax structure as applicable to various financial instruments issued in the Indian financial system and identifying possible 'tax arbitrage' among financial instruments under the extant tax structure.
Besides Kaur, the committee includes RBI central board director Y.H. Malegam; corporate tax lawyer H.P. Ranina; Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR) professor Susan Thomas; ICICI Bank’s senior general manger Shilpa Kumar; National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) Professor Mukesh Anand; RBI’s general manger at the financial markets department Radha Shyam Ratho and Atri Mukherjee, assistant adviser at RBI’s department of economic and policy research.
Also, the group would suggest rationalization of tax treatment across financial instruments to promote financial savings and for minimizing distortions, taking into account the recommendations of earlier committees in this regard and the draft Direct Taxes Code (DTC).
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