Foreign institutional investors during their meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Hong Kong sought simplified procedural requirements for making investments in India. Investors also urged the minister to take more initiatives to promote long-term investments and execution of policy announcements.
The investors raised issues relating to the private equity and their taxation, the need to further simplifying procedural requirements for Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) and also suggested that an Income Tax cell may be set-up to deal with foreign investors. They also raised issues related to labour reforms, Make in India and cross-border bilateral investment opportunities between India and China.
During the meeting, Jaitley highlighted recent initiatives taken by the government to make India an attractive investment destination and told that an enabling framework that had been put in place in recent months for increasing the ease of doing business in the country. He further explained the provisions which are made in the budget 2015-16 on tax pass through for domestic private equity firms and for those which are related to the fund managers. Jaitley outlined recent growth story of the Indian economy and the priorities of enhancing investment in Irrigation and Infrastructure Sector, enhancing Rural Prosperity and Taxation reforms in his key note address at the India Capital Markets and Institutional Investors Summit organised by APIC
Finance Minister also met the Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR C Y Leung and had a discussion about the need to conclude the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) between India and Hong Kong. They also talked about enhancing the role played by Hong Kong as a gateway to China for trade and investment.
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