The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program will offer preferential policies in terms ofcapital gains tax, according to brokerage.
"We have learned from the Shanghai Stock Exchange that the capital gains tax arrangement willbe announced soon, and the authority would give some preferential treatment to stock connectinvestors, compared to the former Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) and RenminbiQFII schemes," the Shanghai-based National Business Daily reported, quoting a source withIndustrial Securities.
A source with a Hong Kong-based brokerage told China Daily on Wednesday that there mightbe a tax waiver at the beginning of the through-train stock program.
"I heard there will be a tax exemption period which could last six months, or the first three years,"he said.
The Chinese authority has not yet clarified capital gains tax for the QFII and RQFII schemes, andinternational investors mostly conduct a 10 percent provision for their China-sourced capitalgains.