SEBI panel recommends bringing clarity in tax rules for FPI

02 Jul 2013 Evaluate

In a move to attract larger number of foreign investors to Indian capital market, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) panel has suggested that the government should bring more clarity and certainty in the taxation provisions for the newly proposed overseas investor category - Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs). The panel headed by former cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar was formed with an aim to attract foreign investments and has submitted its proposals to SEBI last month with SEBI board approved most of its recommendations and has decided to consult the government on some of the issues.

The panel recommended that the various classes of foreign investors, including FIIs (Foreign Institutional Investors), sub-accounts and qualified foreign investors (QFIs), could be merged into FPI to put in place a simplified and uniform set of entry norms for them. Further, it had also proposed to split FPIs into three categories. Among these categories, category I includes low risk (central banks, sovereign wealth funds),  category II - moderate risk (regulated entities such as banks, asset management companies, broad based funds already registered with SEBI) and category III - high risk and has kept the KYC formalities minimal compared to the first two categories.

Foreign investment is considered crucial for economic development of a country and to attract maximum foreign investment into the country, the government has been liberalizing the foreign investment policy. Recently, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have been pulling out money from Indian market owing to the global uncertainties, resulting into record fall in rupee value to over 60 per dollar. The FIIs combined outflow (equity plus debt) reported at Rs 44,161 crore in June.

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