Liability to Tax deduction cannot be imposed from retrospective effect

McCANN Erickson (India) Pvt.Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) we find that the Ld.CIT(A) has relied upon the amendment in the statute. However, the Co-ordinate Bench of this Tribunal after having considered the amendment held in the case of Ashapura Minichem Ltd. vs ADIT 131 TTJ 291 that till 08.05.2010, “the prevailing legal position was that unless the technical services were rendered in India, the fees for such services could not be brought to tax under section 9(1)(vii). The law amended was undoubtedly retrospective in nature but so far as tax withholding liability is concerned, it depends on th...