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No immediate plan for more gold curbs, says government official: report.


Date: 31-01-2013
Subject: No immediate plan for more gold curbs, says government official: report
New Delhi: The government does not currently plan additional taxes or curbs on imports of gold as it waits to see the impact of recent tax hikes, a top finance ministry official told Reuters on Wednesday.

India, the world's largest importer of gold along with China, last week raised the import tax on refined gold by 2 percentage points to 6 per cent and more than doubled duties on gold alloy, aiming to rein in a ballooning trade deficit.

Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram was quoted by a newspaper as saying this week that India was looking at "some other" steps to curb gold imports.

Asked if more tax hikes or import curbs are planned, Arvind Mayaram, economic affairs secretary at the finance ministry, said: "I don't think there is any plan as of now."

He added, "We are taking several measures. The Reserve Bank of India continuously reviews different scenarios, but there is no specific product that I can tell you about today. We are continuously working on different products."

The tax increases come on top of last year's move to double the gold import duty to 4 per cent, but many analysts say the latest steps still will not significantly dent Indians' passion for gold.

The gold imports are a headache for the government, helping to push the current account deficit to a record high 5.4 per cent of gross domestic product in the July-September quarter.

The government wants to link the gold ETF (exchange traded fund) schemes offered by mutual funds to the gold deposit schemes offered by banks to increase the availability of physical gold in the market.

The ETFs are estimated to hold some 40 tonnes of gold, which at present is lying in vaults, Mr Mayaram said.

"We are saying ETFs should monetise part of their gold deposits ... even if you look at 20 per cent that is 8 tonnes of gold ... that gold will come to the market without imports to meet domestic demand for gold."

Mr Mayaram said it was too early to gauge the impact of the recent measures.

"Last year imports were $55 billion, and this year the projected estimate was $50 billion and that was before the (most recent hike)," he said. "So raising the tax (last year) from 2 per cent to 4 per cent already seems to have had an impact. So I believe there will be further impact this year."


Source : profit.ndtv.com

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