Income Tax : This guide explains the tax exemptions, concessional tax rates, presumptive taxation schemes, and compliance benefits available to...
Income Tax : The guide compiles the principal Income-tax Act provisions applicable to non-residents establishing business in India and resident...
Income Tax : Tax on dividends, interest, royalties and FTS earned by non-residents is governed by the more beneficial rate under the Income-tax...
Income Tax : The applicable withholding tax depends on the Income-tax Act or the relevant DTAA, whichever is more beneficial. Treaty rates diff...
Income Tax : The article explains how India's Place of Effective Management (POEM) rules may treat a foreign company as an Indian tax resident ...
Income Tax : CBDT issues clarification on Circular 01/2025, stating it applies only to the Principal Purpose Test in certain DTAAs and does not...
Corporate Law : Learn about CRS and FATCA, how India receives foreign account info, and the disclosure requirements for foreign assets and income ...
Income Tax : From April 2025, foreign taxes withheld must be included in total income for accurate reporting under section 198. Aims to prevent...
Income Tax : Explore challenges in TRC applications under DTAA by Indian companies. KSCAA proposes reforms for a simpler, efficient process. Le...
Income Tax : Appendix-I Declaration of no PE in India Declaration required u/s 9 of Income Tax Act, and for claiming relief under an agreement ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that AMP expenditure incurred in India without any agreement or arrangement with the foreign AE cannot be treate...
Income Tax : The Bombay High Court held that royalty refunded by a foreign company to its Indian subsidiary under an Advance Pricing Agreement ...
Income Tax : The ITAT found inconsistencies in the selection and rejection of comparable companies for determining the arm’s length price of ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that a Dependent Agent PE arises only if agents habitually conclude contracts or secure orders on behalf of the...
Income Tax : The Karnataka High Court ruled that interconnect service charges paid to non-resident telecom operators do not constitute royalty....
Income Tax : The Finance Ministry notifies the India-Belgium protocol amending the 1993 tax treaty, effective June 26, 2025, updating definitio...
Income Tax : Notification implements the India-Qatar Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) and Protocol, effective from the next fiscal ye...
Income Tax : Explore the Notification No. 33/2024 on the agreement between India and Spain for tax exchange. Understand its implications and ch...
Income Tax : Explore implications of Notification No. 21/2024 from Indias Ministry of Finance regarding the tax information exchange pact with ...
Income Tax : Notification No. 96/2023-Income Tax: Learn about the agreement between India and Saint Vincent for tax information exchange and as...
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 […]
Well Friends, this seemingly short and pinpointed question (Can GAAR Override DTAA?), has in-seemingly long and abstract answer, in the absence of any specific legal precedent in this regard, in India, as of now. However, in this article, I am making an honest and sincere attempt to find a plausible, logical and well-reasoned answer to […]
In 2014, the IRS issued Notice 2014-21, 2014-16 I.R.B. 938 explaining that virtual currency is treated as property for Federal income tax purposes and providing examples of how longstanding tax principles applicable to transactions involving property apply to virtual currency. With our income tax authorities going to bite virtual currency as explained in the recent budget […]
Section 6(1) of IT Act, 1961 offers two sets of parameters to determine whether a particular person is an Indian citizen or not. If the said individual falls under any one of the following criterias, he/she will be a resident of the country.
Protocol to India’s Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAAs) with a portion of the nations, particularly European States and OECD individuals (The Netherlands, France, the Swiss Confederation, Sweden, Spain and Hungary) contains an arrangement, alluded to as the Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) provision.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has received representations seeking clarity on the applicability of the MFN clause (particularly to dividend withholding rates) available in the Protocol to some of the DTAAs with OECD member States. India’s DTAAs with countries, namely Slovenia, Colombia and Lithuania, provide for lower rate of source taxation with respect to certain items of income. However, these States were not members of the OECD at the time of the conclusion of their DTAAs with India and have become members of the OECD thereafter.
Germany one of the backbones of European economy has merged with the world’s latest attempt of 137 nations to check the leak of national taxation to tax havens by adopting in its cabinet meet on 31 March 2021 to have its draft Defence against Tax Havens Act (Steueroasen-Abwehrgesetz). It clearly sends the message of acting […]
In The United State of America, Tax is imposed on both federal and state level. Federal and state taxes are completely separate and each has its own authority to charge taxes. The federal government does not have the right to interfere with state taxation. Each state has its own tax system that is separate from the […]
In this era of accelerated globalisation, cross border tax interactions have been high on the political agenda of the multinational entities (‘MNE’). Globalisation, inter-alia brings in inter-country mobility of corporate presence, employees, technology, intellectual property, know-how etc. With increased cross border movement of such elements comes tax controversies, most controversial one being cross border profit […]
Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEA) are agreements developed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The purpose of the TIEAs was mainly to reduce the harmful tax practices. They also seek to facilitate international cooperation with the help of exchange of information surrounding tax matters such as details about tax evaders who hide money in offshore places/tax havens which fall under banking secrecy jurisdictions such as countries like Cayman Islands, and Argentina etc. British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, and Argentina etc.
