SME Times News Bureau | 11 Apr, 2015
India is in the process of reforming its taxation regime to
make it internationally compatible and non-adversarial, Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley said on Friday.
"We are trying to present a taxation regime, which is internationally
compatible, which is non-adversarial. If the investors find Dubai and Singapore
is in the region and more compatible than us, then they are going to beat us in
the competition," Jaitley said while unveiling the regulations for the
International Financial Services Centre (IFSC).
"We have succeeded in ending the mood of despondency. We have opened the
doors and inspiring people within and outside to invest in India. There is a
distance that we have to cover," he added.
With the IFSC coming up at the Gujarat capital, the state is trying to become
the hub for financial services "which was earlier attributed to
Mumbai", the finance minister said.
The IFSC is designed to attract financial services business sector that is
currently going to exchanges outside.
Market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India had on Sunday last
approved a new set of norms for setting up of stock exchanges and other capital
market infrastructure in India's IFSC in Gujarat's GIFT City.
"Stock exchanges and clearing corporations would be provided concessions
for setting up ventures in the IFSC. All existing exchanges would be allowed to
set up their subsidiaries in the IFSC under the relaxed regimes," SEBI
chairman U.K. Sinha said after a meeting of the board.
The BSE and NSE have already signed MoUs for setting up international exchanges
at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City).
Under the new regime, rules and regulations differ and are more relaxed from
those applicable outside the IFSCs.
The move is expected to generate an estimated Rs.1,334 crore per day -- or
Rs.200,000 crore per year -- worth of trading in rupee derivatives that
currently goes to exchanges outside India.