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Income Tax : The Court held that indirect share transfers deriving value from Indian assets are taxable. Treaty benefits were denied due to tax...
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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 ...
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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....
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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...
Government of one country enters into an agreement with the Government of another country or a specified territory for (i) Granting of relief in respect to double taxation (ii) Avoidance of double taxation (iii) Exchange of information (iv) Recovery of income tax. Such agreement is called a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA). Often with the […]
Qualcom Technologies Inc. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) ITAT held that Considering the assessment order of the AO wherein he has followed the findings given in earlier assessment years and considering the fact that the same agreement is being carried on since A.Y.2005-06, we do not find any reason in differing with the view taken by […]
Transfer pricing provisions was incorporated in the Income Tax Act in April 2001 and now it has travel the journey of almost two decades in India. If we give one line principal to the transfer pricing provisions then it is benchmarking of international transactions entered with associated enterprises with comparables transactions (internal or external comparables) […]
With the declaration of final tax system reformation on 10th August 2021, by 136 countries and jurisdictions representing 90% of global GDP, you may be happy to know that Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) will be subject to a minimum 15% tax rate from 2023 and that this deal would embark on distribution of US D 125 […]
With globalization, people and corporates venturing abroad for work and to explore foreign markets is common. This brings a need to pay taxes on income earned in foreign countries. The question is, if an Indian resident earns income and pays taxes abroad, can he claim credit of the taxes paid in foreign countries and if […]
Eight years ago, you mandated the OECD to address corporate tax avoidance by multinationals, which cost countries at least $240 billion a year in lost fiscal revenues. After years of negotiations including 140 countries, the agreement announced last Friday shows that it is finally possible to change a system that was built one hundred years ago.
On 3rd October, 2021, the International Consortium of International Journalists (ICIJ) has come out with what is claimed to be a 2.94 terabyte data trove that exposes the offshore secrets of wealthy elites from more than 200 countries and territories.
Perfetti Van Melle India Pvt Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) Thus, in order to be characterized as an ‘international transaction’, it would have to be demonstrated that the transaction arose pursuant to an arrangement, understanding or action in concert. A ‘transaction’, per se involves a bilateral arrangement or contract between the parties. Unilateral action by […]
In present facts of the case, the Hon’ble Tribunal relied upon the previous Judgments passed in the assesse own case and have observed that agents of the assessee did not have the necessary authority to conclude the contracts of the assessee and, on that premise, it was held that there is no agency PE of assessee in India and therefore Assessee was not taxable in India.
ITAT held that in case A comparable having an extraordinary financial event of Merger and Acquisition (M& A) during the year the same cannot be considered as functionally comparable for transfer pricing (TP) comparability analysis.
