Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have written to the finance ministry and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) demanding short-term capital gains be scrapped. Instead, the FIIs want the government to impose higher securities transaction tax (STT) on their trades.
FIIs, because of volumes, are not intraday or very short term traders. A little increase in STT will not hurt them much. Hardly couple of points on the NF.
LTCG tax will hurt them hard!
FIIs are thinking "kuch le de ke mamla rafa dafa karo"
not only that...they can bypass STT by trading SGX Nifty.. most of the FIIs are doing that already.. So increase in STT won't be a problem for them.. But what will happen to us ... ?
if one is making consistent profits in intra trading then this tx tht tax will not be any worry. if one is not making profits thn even penny increase in tax is bad