Income Tax : The framework outlines mandatory disclosures and timelines for opting into safe harbour. Key takeaway: strict compliance is essent...
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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...
Income Tax : The content outlines key filing deadlines and highlights penalties for non-compliance. The takeaway is that timely filing and paym...
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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...
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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 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 : ITAT Delhi ruled that a valid Tax Residency Certificate (TRC) issued by Mauritius is sufficient proof of residency to claim benefi...
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...
Article informs the taxpayers about the broad tax treatment of foreign income of persons resident in India. In a liberalized economy, more and more citizen of the country are travelling to work and earn income in foreign countries. Often these taxpayers are not adeuately equipped to understand the taxability of their foreign income. Article is […]
The Protocol provides internationally accepted standards for effective exchange of information on tax matters. Further, the information received from Kazakhstan for tax purposes can be shared with other law enforcement agencies with the authorisation of the competent authority of Kazakhstan and vice versa.
The Government of India issues clarification regarding requirement for furnishing of Country-by Country Report under Section 286(4) of Income Tax Act, 1961.
It was proposed in Finance Act 2016. It is a part of three-tiered transfer pricing documentation structure which must be maintained and produced before the income-tax authorities along with a master file (contains standardized information relevant for all Multinational enterprise group members) and a local file (refers specifically to material transactions of the local taxpayer).
It has been widely reported that multinational corporations resort to base erosion and profit sharing (BEPS) techniques to shift their profit to tax havens or nations with lower tax incidence.
The OECD report on Action Plan 13 of BEPS Action plan provides for re-examination of transfer pricing documentation. It also provides for a template for country-by-country reporting of income, earnings, taxes paid and certain measure of economic activity.
India, amongst various countries, participated in the signing of the Multilateral Instrument (MLI) on 7 June 2017, to implement tax treaty related measures as a part of the various Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) related Action Plans.
ICRICT is launching today a new publication presenting concrete solutions to reorient the existing system of international taxation away from serving the wealthy few and to focus it instead on addressing the needs of the vast majority of the population.
With snow reportedly falling in Philadelphia, USA and other places, Internal Revenue Service(IRS), the most dynamic tax collecting wing of the Federal Government of USA, opened the electronic filing window on January 29, 2018, enabling millions of tax payers to start the process of tax filing and aspire for tax refunds, if eligible.
The concept of Business connection under the domestic tax laws is akin to concept of PE in international parlance. The term ‘business connection’ includes activities carried on by non-resident through its dependent agents. Presently, a person acting on the behalf of the non-resident by negotiating and concluding contracts, maintaining stock of goods in India or habitually securing orders in India mainly or wholly for the non-resident would constitute its dependant agent in India.
