Income Tax : Delve into the complexities of digital taxation, exploring its evolution, significance, and global responses. Learn about fair ta...
Income Tax : Explore the alignment of Section 286 of the Income Tax Act 1961 with OECD BEPS Action Plan 13, emphasizing Country-by-Country Repo...
Income Tax : Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) is a crucial component of the transfer pricing documentation requirements introduced by the Or...
Income Tax : Discover how the OECD's introduction of Pillar One Amount B in 2024 streamlines transfer pricing for marketing and distribution, e...
Income Tax : Explore the evolution of harmful tax practices from the OECD's 1998 report to the BEPS Action 5 approach, focusing on transparency...
Income Tax : Eight years ago, you mandated the OECD to address corporate tax avoidance by multinationals, which cost countries at least $240 bi...
Income Tax : Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Organisation ...
Income Tax : Majority of the members OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting(including India)adoptedyesterday ahigh-le...
Income Tax : CBDT has released the synthesised text for India-Slovak Republic tax treaty. It represents their shared understanding of the modif...
Income Tax : CBDT has released the synthesised text for India-Poland tax treaty. It represents their shared understanding of the modifications ...
Income Tax : It is not at the whim or fancy of a tax authority to decide as to what constitutes 'beneficial ownership'; it is absolutely fundam...
Income Tax : A reader should be able to come to his / her own conclusion by applying the legislative enactments and judicial pronouncements to ...
Income Tax : High Court held that to say that the person being prosecuted or proceeded against can only be 'shown' such documents, but not prov...
SEBI : PR No. 297/2015 Sixth Meeting of the International Advisory Board of SEBI The Sixth meeting of the International Advisory Board (I...
Income Tax : To combat the problem of offshore tax evasion and avoidance and stashing of unaccounted money abroad requiring cooperation amongst...
CBDT has released the synthesised text for India- Serbia and Montenegro tax treaty. It represents their shared understanding of the modifications made to the Agreement by MLI. SYNTHESISED TEXT OF THE MULTILATERAL CONVENTION TO IMPLEMENT TAX TREATY RELATED MEASURES TO PREVENT BASE EROSION AND PROFIT SHIFTING AND THE CONVENTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC […]
CBDT has released the synthesised text for India-UAE tax treaty. It represents their shared understanding of the modifications made to the Agreement by MLI.
Synthesised text of MLI and Convention between Government of Japan and Government of Republic of India for Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income.
In our Transfer Pricing world, the OECD has duly acknowledged the fact that the business environment has evolved due to change in technology and digitalization. The efforts of OECD to walk hand in hand with the ongoing evolution of technology is visible from its work in Action 1 – Digitalisation, Business Models and Value Creation, where it is trying to justify its underlying principle need to align transfer pricing outcome with value creation
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) has emerged as one of the most important challenges for governments all over the world. The Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG) has resulted; Free movement of Capital and Labour; Shift of manufacturing base from high cost to lower cost locations; Gradual removal of the trade barriers, and Rise of digital […]
This paper aims at analysing the tie-breaker test in determining residence in the OECD as prescribed under Article 4(3) and how it is evolved. It analyses the 2017 update to the OECD which prescribes the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP). The paper finally provides a method of properly implementing MAP and how it can be effectively done so through arbitration by choosing the correct method.
NEWS DIRECT TAX 1. CBDT notifies TIEA between India-Marshall Islands. [Notification no 40/2019/F.No. 503/1/2018-FT & TR– IV] 2. Form 15H can be furnished if no tax payable on income after sec. 87A rebate. [Notification No. 41/2019/F. No. 370142/5/2019-TPL] 3. CBDT releases draft notification proposing new audit report Form for Trust/Institution. [NOTIFICATION F.NO. 370142/6/2019-TPL, DATED 21-5-2019] 4. […]
Anurag Agrawal Introduction Over several decades and in step with the globalisation of the economy, intra group transactions have grown exponentially world-wide especially related to intangible assets. The word “intangible asset” is intended to address something which is not a physical asset or a financial asset, which is capable of being owned or controlled for […]
India has time and again shown its commitment to BEPS initiative of the OECD and introduced several reforms in domestic tax legislation to plug loopholes, strengthen information sharing between the contracting states and prevent double non-taxation. In line with its commitment, vide Finance Act 2017; the government has introduced measures to curb thin capitalization in […]
‘Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting’ (MLI for short) is the official title of the multilateral treaty framework that aims to prevent BEPS. Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) refers to artificially shifting profits to low or no-tax locations where there is little or no economic […]
