consultancy services

Payment made by a member to its stock exchange for VSAT/Lease line/BOLT/Demat charges is not fee for technical services u/s194J

For the purposes of this clause, fees for technical services means any consideration (including any lump sum consideration) for the rendering of any managerial, technical or consultancy services (including the provision of services of technical or other personnel) but does not include consideration for any construction, assembly, mining or like project undertaken by the recipient or consideration which would be income of the recipient chargeable under the head Salaries.
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Service Tax on Legal Services – Some Controversial Issues

services provided by Chartered Accountants, Cost Accountants and Company Secretaries as well as by engineering and management consultants are presently charged to Service Tax. Although there is a school of thought that legal consultants do not provide any service to their client, I hold my distinguished predecessor in high esteem and disagree! As such, I propose to extend Service Tax on advice, consultancy or technical assistance provided in the field of law. This tax wo..
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If certain activities are not realy services but more in the nature of stewardship/shareholder activities, the amounts cannot be taxed in India in the absence of a permanent establishment (PE)

The applicant is a US-based manufacturer engaged in manufacturing of engineering goods and is also an R&D-based service provider. It entered a cost al ocation agreement with its India-based group company. The applicant raises invoices on the Indian group company for services rendered based on the formula given in the agreement. The question before the Authority for Advance Ruling was: “Whether payments made for availing services listed out in the agreement are taxabl..
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Payments for technical services are to be treated as ‘fees for technical services’ under Article 13(4) of Indo-French DTAA

For the purposes of paragraph 2 of this Article, and subject to paragraph 5 of this Article, the term 'fees for technical services' means payments of any kind to any person in consideration for the rendering of any technical or consultancy services (including the provision of services of technical or other personnel) which:
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Procedure to Set up a Branch Office in India

Foreign companies who are engaged in manufacturing and trading activities outside India are allowed, by Indian law, to set up branch offices in India for the following purposes: Export/Import of goods. Rendering professional or consultancy services. Carrying out research work, in which the parent company is engaged.
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Applicability of TDS on payment made to legal advisors at Hongkong

When the legal charges paid in UK are accepted to be covered under section 9(1)(vii) of the Income-tax Act, then how it can be argued that similar charges paid in Hongkong be given a different treatment, more so when the relation of the services with the subject continues to remain the same.
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RBI Circular to RBs – Priority Sector Lending Categorisation of activities under service under the MSMED Act, 2006

In terms of paragraphs 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 of Section I of the guidelines on lending to priority sector enclosed to circular RPCD.No.RRB. BC.20/ 03.05.33/2007- 08 dated August 22, 2007, credit to small enterprises includes loans granted to micro and small (manufacturing and service) enterprises, provided investment in plant and machinery [original cost excluding land and building and the items specified by the Ministry of Small Scale Industries vide its notification no. S.O...
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Service tax notification on Export of Services (Second Amendment) Rules, 2009 – Amendment in rule 3

* Legal Consultancy Services provided in relation to immovable property are classified under the group where export of services is based on the criteria that the immovable property is located outside India. Legal Consultancy Services which is not in relation to immovable property shall be classified under the residual category, where the following specific conditions are required to be fulfilled –
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