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Double Taxation Relief: Rules and Benefits in India

Income Tax : The guide explains how residents can avoid double taxation through DTAA benefits, Foreign Tax Credit, and Section 91 relief, outli...

June 8, 2026 21234 Views 0 comment Print

India’s Evolving PE and Business Connection Tests – Post-Digital Economy BEPS Changes

Income Tax : The article explains how India has broadened Permanent Establishment and Business Connection concepts after BEPS reforms. It highl...

May 14, 2026 285 Views 0 comment Print

Can a Subsidiary Company create a PE of Foreign Holding Company in India?

Income Tax : xplains how the functions performed by an Indian subsidiary are tested under Article 5 to determine whether a foreign company form...

February 7, 2026 1029 Views 0 comment Print

When a Liaison Office Becomes a Taxable Permanent Establishment?

Income Tax : The analysis explains how activities of a liaison office can trigger PE exposure despite regulatory approval. Taxability depends o...

February 3, 2026 813 Views 0 comment Print

SC Defines PE Beyond Physical Presence: Hyatt International Ruling Explained

Income Tax : Highlights how the Court ruled that consistent operational control and strategic oversight in India can establish a Fixed Place PE...

December 4, 2025 1452 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


OECD releases a discussion draft on the definition of 'permanent establishment' in the OECD Model Tax Convention; CBDT invite Comments

Income Tax : The OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs has proposed important and far-reaching changes to the Commentary on Article 5 (Permanent Est...

November 11, 2011 1315 Views 0 comment Print

MNC preferring dispute resolution panel to settle their disputes with Income tax department

Income Tax : A host of companies from Mumbai, said to be 367 in number and mostly multinational in nature, have moved the recently set up dispu...

May 11, 2010 607 Views 0 comment Print

Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement Signed Between India and Tajikistan

Income Tax : A Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement was signed between India and Tajikistan today, i.e. 20th November, 2008. The Agreement was s...

December 1, 2008 840 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


APA Refund Reduces Taxable Royalty, No PE in India: Bombay HC

Income Tax : The Bombay High Court held that only the royalty retained after an APA adjustment is taxable, applying the doctrine of real income...

June 20, 2026 213 Views 0 comment Print

Excess Royalty Refunded Under APA Cannot Be Taxed as Only Retained Amount Is Taxable: Bombay HC

Income Tax : The Bombay High Court held that royalty refunded by a foreign company to its Indian subsidiary under an Advance Pricing Agreement ...

June 20, 2026 114 Views 0 comment Print

No Fixed Place PE in India as Customer Premises Were Not at Foreign Company’s Disposal: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT ruled that no installation or supervisory PE existed in India as the activities did not exceed the 120-day threshol...

June 13, 2026 213 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi Deletes Section 44BB Addition as Revenue Failed to Establish PE in India

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that offshore supply receipts could not be taxed under Section 44BB where the Revenue failed to prove the existe...

June 7, 2026 198 Views 0 comment Print

Only Solar Days Count for Determining PE Under India-Saudi Arabia DTAA: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : Bangalore ITAT ruled that only solar days and not cumulative man-days should be considered while determining the existence of a Pe...

May 22, 2026 1821 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Non residents having no PE in India exempted from section 206C(1G) TCS

Income Tax : CBDT notifies Section 206C (1G) of Income Tax Act shall not apply to a person (being a buyer) who is a non-resident & who does not...

August 17, 2022 4812 Views 0 comment Print

Amendment of Rules for Profit attribution to PE: CBDT invites comment

Income Tax : Public Consultation on the proposal for amendment of Rules for Profit attribution to Permanent (PE) Establishment invited by CBDT....

April 18, 2019 4758 Views 0 comment Print


ITAT explains impact on taxability when treaty not contains FTS clause

June 22, 2022 6852 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Michelin ROH Co. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) Brief facts of the case are that the assessee has a company incorporated in Thailand and offers a number of services, such as, business planning and coordination, engineering services, product research and development etc. to its Indian subsidiary. On offering these engineering services, the assessee obtained a […]

TDS not deductible on business profit of non-resident in absence of PE in India

May 30, 2022 3204 Views 0 comment Print

Merely because a person has not deducted tax at source from a remittance abroad, it cannot be inferred that the person making a remittance has committed a failure in discharging his tax withholding obligations because such obligations come into existence only when recipient has a tax liability in India.

PE or Business Connection – Tax on Income of non-resident in India

April 15, 2022 19719 Views 0 comment Print

Whether incomes of a non-resident are taxable in India, regardless of whether the non-resident assessee has PE or Business Connection in India? There is misconception in the minds of few non-resident assessees that their income are not taxable in India if they have neither business connection nor permanent establishment in India but there are certain […]

TDS not deductible on Payment to Facebook Ireland for Advertisement

April 10, 2022 9093 Views 0 comment Print

Addl. CIT Vs Lenskart Solution (P) Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) It was claimed by the Assessee that as the Assessee had made the payment to Facebook Ireland Inc. (FII), which admittedly did not have any permanent establishment (PE) in India and, therefore, the payments made to it for advertisement services were not chargeable to tax in […]

No Supervisory PE established merely from visit of employees of Foreign Company in India for certain technical services

March 13, 2022 4959 Views 0 comment Print

FCC Co. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) ITAT had directed the assessee to file the description of services rendered by the employees of the assessee on their visit to India and the corresponding clause under the Agreement for Dispatch of Engineers under which such services would fall. In response, the assessee furnished Annexure 1 for […]

Interest on income tax refund received by non-resident companies is taxable irrespective of PE

February 3, 2022 4908 Views 0 comment Print

Interest on income tax refund received by the non-resident companies shall be taxable as per the provision of Tax Treaty irrespective of the fact that whether the assessee has PE in India or not.

No income of assessee-company taxable in India in absence of PE in India

February 1, 2022 1254 Views 0 comment Print

Since Indian subsidiary of assessee-company was operating in an independent manner and there was nothing to show that factually speaking the Indian subsidiary constituted a PE of assessee in India, therefore, AO had erred in invoking section 9 of the Act and/or Article 5 of the India-USA DTAA in order to say that the assessee company had a PE in India. Where assessee did not have a PE in India,  income of assessee was not allowable to be taxed in India.

Income of ‘Sabre Asia Pacific’ from computerized Air ticket reservation taxable in India

January 29, 2022 996 Views 0 comment Print

Sabre Asia Pacific Pte Ltd Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) The first issue that needs to be decided is whether the assessee has a permanent establishment in India or not? This is challenged as per ground 2 of the appeal. We find that this issue is squarely covered against the assessee by the decision of the […]

Profit attribution not permissible in absence of PE in India

November 2, 2021 1164 Views 0 comment Print

We are of the considered view that the appellant has no business connection in India in respect of supply of GSM System by the appellant to cellular operators in India and further, there is no PE in any form in India in the captioned Assessment Years and therefore, the question of attribution of profit does not arise at all.

No attribution of profit in absence of permanent establishment

October 26, 2021 2097 Views 0 comment Print

ESPN Star Sports Mauritius Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Facts- The appellant is a partnership firm established under Mauritius Law. It is engaged in the business of selling advertisement time and programme sponsorship from Mauritius in connection with the programming via non-standard television on ESPN, Star Sports and Star Cricket programming services. During the year under […]

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