"Saloni S Khandelwal is an M&A Tax Partner with PwC and leads the M&A Tax practice in Hyderabad. She possessed close to 2 decades of experience in advising clients on Tax and Regulatory services."
In todays environment, start-ups are crucial as they focus on innovation, lead to employment generation and promote research and development. As per recent study conducted by IBM and Oxford, 90% of India’s start-ups fail within the first five years despite Indias entrepreneurial strengths.
Capital reduction refers to corporate reorganisation activity in which the existing share capital is extinguished. Companies consider utilising this route for various business reasons, such as returning excess capital to shareholders, distributing assets to shareholders, loss of original share capital due to accumulated business losses, etc. The process of capital reduction might affect all shareholders […]
Some fundamental tax questions never seem to go out of fashion, irrespective of numerous judicial precedents on the matter. One such matter is the taxability of income from renting of immovable properties (Land and Buildings). The Income can broadly fall under the following two heads of income in the Income Tax Act: 1. Income from […]
As per section 79 of the Act, in case of a change in shareholding of a company, other than a company in which the public is substantially interested, no loss incurred in any previous year is allowed to be carried forward and set-off, unless shares carrying not less than 51% of the voting power are beneficially held by persons who also held such shares in the year in which the loss was incurred.
The taxation regime in India seems to be undergoing crucial changes to negate the above quote from one of the greatest philosophers of all times. On this backdrop, the principles of thin capitalisation as prescribed in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (‘OECD’) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (‘BEPS) Action Plan 4 have prompted Indian lawmakers to adopt the same vide Finance Act, 2017.
Every year, tax professionals eagerly look forward to the budget to identify new provisions to learn (or unlearn). We see many tax amendments introduced by the Revenue Department to counter the judicial decisions. However, this continuous tinkering of the tax laws to counter the judicial precedents may change the rules of the game favouring the […]
