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CBDT has, vide Notification no. 54/2016 dated 27th June 2016, notified Rules for grant of Foreign Tax Credit (FTC). The said rules are applicable from Assessment Year 2017-18 onwards. Earlier, the CBDT had released draft FTC rules on 18th April 2016 for public comments and on the basis of comments received, the final rules are notified.
The Protocol provides for source-based taxation of capital gains arising from alienation of shares acquired on or after 1st April, 2017 in a company resident in India with effect from financial year 2017-18.
The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the revised double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) with Cyprus which will help close gaps and enable Indian authorities to tax capital gains in the country for investments originating in the Mediterranean island nation.
Assessee submitted that project receipt from Tanakpur Power Project of NHPC work is exempt from tax in India for the reason that assessee does not have continuous presence or ‘business connection’ or a permanent establishment in India.
Recently Government of India has notified the revised tax treaty with Mauritius which was signed by both countries on 10 May 2016 under which India will impose capital gains tax on investments routed through the island nation from 1 April 2017 to curb tax evasion.
The Tax filing season in the US usually starts on the 31st of January each year and ends on 15th April. In the following sections we shall discuss how income generated in India is taxed for the NRIs’ in U.S. This rule holds for all who are foreign nationals, meaning those who are a citizen of a country other than the U.S. but relocates to U.S. and earns income from there. For those who are U.S. resident or citizen, taxes have to be paid on the global income in the U.S.
An individual is usually accustomed to the tax rates and tax structure of his/her home country. Tax rates are different in different countries. If an employee is deputed from his home country to another country certainly his net income will be impacted because of difference in tax rates. e. g. If an Indian employee (effective tax rate is about 25%) is deputed to Saudi Arabia (zero tax) he will be very happy because his net take home will increase by 25%. But the same employee will be unhappy if he is deputed to some of the European countries where tax rates are very high. The concept of tax equalization came up so that the employee is “neither better off nor worse off” because of deputation to another country.
Foreign Tax Credit.- (1) An assessee, being a resident shall be allowed a credit for the amount of any foreign tax paid by him in a country or specified territory outside India, by way of deduction or otherwise, in the year in which the income corresponding to such tax has been offered to tax or assessed to tax in India, in the manner and to the extent as specified in this rule
Comments and suggestions of stakeholders invited on relevant issues arising out of amendment to India-Mauritius Double Taxation Avoidance Convention for consideration by the Working Group constituted for the purpose
Q1. What was the reason to amend tax treaty (DTAA) with Mauritius? 1. Any Capital Gains arising in Mauritius were not taxed 2. This made an attractive “post box address” for foreign investors to route investments into India 3. Indians with a intention of avoiding taxes set up shell companies in Mauritius, concealing identities and channeling cash or stock market investments through “round tripping”.
