The only agenda for Commodity Derivatives market is to waive off the Commodity Transaction Tax that was levied in 2013-14.
The focus of Budget 2021-2022 could be largely to mend the economy and boost growth and fight inflationary pressures. While the economy came under pressure, the commodities market was also not left unaffected.
A long-standing demand from the stakeholders is either a reduction or elimination of STT (Securities Transaction Tax) and CTT (Commodities Transaction Tax)
SEBI has written to the Ministry of Finance ahead of the Union Budget, recommending about a dozen measures for the commodity market, mutual funds and AIFs.
The Finance Ministry has proposed setting up a single gold spot exchange at a meeting with exchanges last week, all of which want to set up individual spot exchanges.
The GDP growth forecasts have been affected by demonetisation, which in turn has led to high expectations of a budget which will cut taxes, incentivize savings, raise more revenue, be anti-inflationary and push growth
Speaking to CNBC-TV18 Mrugank Paranjpe, MD, MCX said that he believes the final contours for options trading from SEBI might come in 2 weeks.
India Budget 2015-16 is round the corner and commodity market have a lot of expectations from this budget after Indian economy emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world led by the stable government at the Center, says Ventura.
Union budget needs to act on many issues in commodities markets ranging from CTT, sugar export subsidy, gold import duty and implementation of GST.
MCX Joint Managing Director Singhal says commodity trading volumes have come down significantly since the imposition of CTT, and this is also leading to grey market transactions in which the government gets no revenue at all.
Brokers were demanding lower transaction taxes and lower capital gains tax.
According to Religare Retail Research, traders and investors from commodity derivatives market are expecting the government to announce steps to restruc-ture the Forward Contracts Regulation Act (FCRA). This would increase depth in the market and will help in efficient price discovery, says the report.
Arihant capital markets has come out with its preview on Union Budget 2015-16. "Few sectors which may hog limelight in the budget are Defence, Renewable energy and Infrastructure. Apart from this expect focus to be more on improving macros", says the report.
Commodity Transaction Tax of 0.01 percent was slapped on futures trading of non-agricultural items and some processed food items in July 2013.
Finance Ministry may notify implementation of commodity transaction tax on Thursday, which will be applicable non-agri commodities futures from July 1.
In an interview to CNBC-TV18, SP Tulsian of sptulsian.com picks two stocks as his multi-baggers for the day. Tulsian bets on MCX and APL Apollo Tubes. He predicts MCX India's target price to be Rs 1,250 and APL Apollo Tubes' target price to be Rs 225 in the next six months.
Phani Sekhar, Fund Manager of Angel Broking feels the business of MCX continues to be good from a very long-term perspective.
The Union Budget 2013, which was presented by the finance minister on last Thursday, was hailed as a forward looking and prudent Budget.
Talking to CNBC-TV 18 about the introduction of commodity transaction tax (CTT) in the Budget last week, Shreekant Javalgekar, MD & CEO, MCX, said the proposal was fraught with many inconsistencies.
In a major setback to commodity exchanges, finance minister Chidambarm today proposed a transaction tax of 0.01 percent on non-agri futures traded on the bourses.
Although pre budget event to raise import duty on gold has hammered the investor sentiments about bullion market in India, if CTT introduced then it will have radical impact on over all commodities section.
In the run up to Budget 2013-14 the finance ministry is considering various areas of taxation and is mulling a cess on import of crude oil. It could be as low as one percent.