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Generally speaking, Branch Profit Tax is a tax imposed on effectively connected earnings / income of a branch (or entity) in a contracting state (country, in common parlance) of a foreign entity when those earnings are repatriated, or deemed repatriated, to the home country of such foreign entity. Currently, there is no concept of additional […]
The matter of whether Form 15CB is required for making payments to the Indian Bank account of a non-resident / foreign company is a grey area in the Income-tax law. Various entities have not been filing Form 15CA / 15CB while making payments to Indian Bank account of non-residents / foreign companies, since paying bank does not insist on the same while other entities are regularly filing Form 15CA / 15CB while making payment to a non-resident / foreign companies in their Indian bank accounts.
It is a well settled principle that ‘Income-tax’ of a taxpayer is a not an allowable business expenditure. However, whether the ‘Income-tax’ payable by the taxpayer also includes ‘Cess’ or does not include such ‘Cess’ is a matter of debate.
Before proceeding into detailed discussion on this topic, let us first have a glimpse of Article 14 of Model tax convention. Article 14 of the Model tax convention read as under: “1. Income derived by a resident of a Contracting State in respect of professional services or other activities of an independent character shall be […]
The issue of interpretation of agreements for avoidance for double taxation [AADT / DTAA / tax treaty] has always been ongoing. More particularly when it involves importing the meaning of any expressions from the interpretation adopted for any other tax treaty. India has signed tax treaties with various countries out of which certain DTAA’s (viz., […]
The Multilateral Convention / Multilateral Instrument to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, sometime abbreviated BEPS multilateral instrument, is a multilateral convention of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to combat tax avoidance by multinational enterprises through prevention of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting [“BEPS”]. The BEPS multilateral […]
