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...
Consequent to the proposal for withdrawal of exemption under section 10(38) of the Act, the FIIs will be liable to tax on long term capital gains arising from transfer of long term capital asset being equity shares of a company or a unit of equity oriented fund or a unit of business trusts only in respect of amount of such gains exceeding one lakh rupees.
Renault India case: Just because assessee mentioned that marketing expenditure incurred by it helped promotion of Renault brand in India, it cannot be presumed that such expenditure resulted in any international transaction
This article analyses the provisions notified to give effect to the OECD recommendations on three tiered Transfer Pricing documentation, regarding the entities to which the provisions will apply.
Prior to the introduction of the concept of POEM, a Company was said to be resident in India in any previous year if it was an Indian company or during that year, the control and management of its affairs was situated wholly in India. The Finance Act, 2015 amended the above provision so as to provide that a Company would be resident in India in any previous year if it is an Indian company or its Place of Effective Management (POEM) in that year is in India.
The following article has been written to explain the salient features of the reporting requirements enforced on corporations in India/abroad which are said to assist tax authorities around the world to use transfer pricing audit to get the tax due to their countries from corporations who seemed to have found various ways to avoid the tax owed by them.
FATCA stands for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. It is a United States legislation which was primarily enacted to prevent tax evasion by US taxpayers using non-US financial institutions and offshore investment instruments.
Finance Act, 2012 extended the obligation to withhold taxes to non- residents irrespective of whether the non-resident has –
Master file and country to country compliance Form 3CEAA, 3CEAB, 3EAC, 3CEAD, 3CEAE. BEPS CbyC and Master File Compliance. 24th Amendment Rules, 2017
India and USA have signed the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) under FATCA in 2015. To enhance the effectiveness of information exchange and transparency, both the sides committed to establish, by January 1, 2017, rules requiring their Reporting Financial Institutions (RFIs) to obtain the Tax Identity Number (TIN) of each report able person having a report able account as of June 30, 2014 (pre- existing account).
In U.S.A., with the announcement of historical tax concessions for business, being reportedly released in the future, though the legal approvals have already been obtained, not a day passes when someone would not ask me what type of business he/ she may start in USA.
