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ITO Vs Vishinda Diamonds (ITAT Mumbai) Sister concern made purchases of rough diamonds on behalf of assessee. Sister concern made payment of core service charges to vendor after deducting tax at rate of 15 per cent as per article 13 of the India-UK DTAA. Assessee reimbursed expenses to sister concern. HELD, There was no element […]
CIT Vs Information Architects (Bombay High Court) The amounts paid by the assessee to its employees towards overseas maintenance allowance. These amounts were paid towards expenses at the rate of IEP 50 per day per employee. Held that these amounts constitute only reimbursement for the expenses incurred by the employees at a particular amount per […]
CIT Vs Expeditors International (India) (P.) Ltd. (Delhi High Court) Assessee-company was engaged in business of supplying chain management, logistics and freight forwarding related to movement of goods and cargo within India or outside by road, rail, air or ship – It involved activities of packing, loading/unloading, trucking, tenderization, customs clearance and other cargo handling […]
Convergys Customer Management Group Inc. Vs ADIT (ITAT Delhi) The assessee made payment for link charges to telecom service providers in the USA and cross-charged the portion of the cost incurred by it in connection with the India half link to CIS, which was accordingly reimbursed by CIS to assessee. The assessee has merely procured […]
Income from cloud hosting services had erroneously held as royalty within the meaning of explanation (2) to section 9(1)(vi) as well as Article 12(3)(b) of the Indo-USA DTAA by AO and DRP as the Data Centre and Infrastructure therein was used to provide services belonged to assessee and customer did not have physical control or possession over the servers and right to operate and manage this infrastructure/servers vested solely with assessee.
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 […]
Taxation on income of companies which are engaged in technological goods & services have always been a niche and debatable issue among the countries since inception due to the disruptive businesses models which allow companies to operate in a country without having any physical presence, or having its permanent office. These companies even if they […]
Two Negatives maketh a Positive. Not so often, but sometimes, this mathematical formula does apply to real life economic situations. With the omnipresent Covid Pandemic there is no searching for the first negative, and second negative is the dire state of economy of Bahrain’s neighboring country Saudi Arabia. New economy revival measures announced by Saudi […]
International taxation in a simple language means the study of Taxation beyond the National Level. Though we all are very much aware about our Indian Taxation Laws but as time is demanding something more so, there is a need to study the taxation at another level.
The law with regards to the DTAA and the powers of Income Tax and other administrative authorities in its implementation have evolved with the development of various judicial trends ranging from the case of McDowell, Azadi Bachao Andolan to Vodafone-Hatchison Case, to name a few.
