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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 93 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 720 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 627 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 1275 Views 0 comment Print

Deductions Allowed Even Without Active PE: SC Clarifies Business Continuity for Non-Residents

Income Tax : Supreme Court rules that foreign taxpayers without current projects or PE in India can still set off expenses and depreciation aga...

December 2, 2025 666 Views 0 comment Print


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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 1285 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 580 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 825 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


SC Upholds Quashing of Reassessment Notices Due to Unproven PE Allegations

Income Tax : The Supreme Court dismissed SLPs and upheld the High Court’s finding that reassessment notices lacked tangible material. The rul...

May 3, 2026 768 Views 0 comment Print

SC Dismisses Appeal Due to Delay, HC Ruling on No PE and Offshore Taxability Stands

Income Tax : The Supreme Court declined to condone delay, thereby upholding the High Court’s conclusion that the liaison office did not const...

April 21, 2026 492 Views 0 comment Print

Offshore Supply Income Not Taxable in India Due to Absence of Business Connection: Delhi HC

Income Tax : The judgment confirms that income from offshore equipment supply is not taxable where transactions occur outside India. The liaiso...

April 21, 2026 384 Views 0 comment Print

Reassessment Notices Quashed Due to Lack of Tangible Material for PE Allegation

Income Tax : The Court set aside Section 148 notices after finding no tangible evidence supporting the existence of a Permanent Establishment. ...

April 20, 2026 474 Views 0 comment Print

No DAPE Where Distributors Act on Principal-to-Principal Basis ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that a Dependent Agent PE arises only if agents habitually conclude contracts or secure orders on behalf of the...

March 12, 2026 381 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 4701 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 4719 Views 0 comment Print


Profit attribution not permissible in absence of PE in India

November 2, 2021 1122 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 2067 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 […]

Fixed placed PE or agency placed PE in India is must to determine taxability

September 28, 2021 3483 Views 0 comment Print

In present facts of the case, the Hon’ble Tribunal relied upon the previous Judgments passed in the assesse own case and have observed that agents of the assessee did not have the necessary authority to conclude the contracts of the assessee and, on that premise, it was held that there is no agency PE of  assessee in India and therefore Assessee was not taxable in India.

No further income attributable to a PE in India, if PE been remunerated at ALP

September 25, 2021 2556 Views 0 comment Print

Mobileum Inc Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) since transactions between the assessee and its AE have been found at arm’s length prices no further income chargeable to tax in India can be said to be attributable for the PE of the assessee. FULL TEXT OF THE ORDER OF ITAT MUMBAI This appeal by the Assessee is […]

Concept of Service PE and Key Judgements

July 20, 2021 54285 Views 1 comment Print

1. Concept of PE – Introduction 1. PE is primarily a concept relevant from tax treaty perspective. Under a treaty regime, business profits are ordinarily taxable in the country of residence except when there exists a PE in source country. 2. Article 5(1) U.N. Model Tax Convention and OECD Model Convention– Basic rule PE “a […]

Taxable unit is a Foreign Company and not its Branch or PE in India

May 28, 2021 2184 Views 0 comment Print

Morgan Stanley Mauritius Co Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) The reasoning given by the DRP is ex facie incorrect inasmuch as the SCB-India, being a permanent establishment of a company fiscally domiciled in the United Kingdom, and is not a taxable unit in India, and the taxability is in the name of its general enterprise- […]

Onus on Revenue demonstrate that PE of A Foreign Enterprise Exists In India

May 27, 2021 1152 Views 0 comment Print

International Air Transport Association (Canada) Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) At this stage, we may herein observe that as in the present case before us, in the case of Delmas France (supra) also there was no finding of the lower authorities that the transactions between the principal and agent were done in arm’s length conditions. Under […]

Income from sale of software constitutes business income instead of royalty in absence of PE

January 11, 2021 2157 Views 0 comment Print

Income earned by assessee from sale of software, either directly to the customers in India or through Distributors or Resellers constituted its business income and not the Royalty income. As admittedly assessee did not have any Permanent Establishment in India, such income will not magnetize Indian taxation.

In absence of PE Training charges cannot be taxed as Business Income under DTAA with Sweden

January 6, 2021 1959 Views 0 comment Print

Explore the tax implications as Sandvik AB challenges the characterization of Training fees, testing DTAA provisions, and its application in the ITAT Pune decision.

Indian liaison office of UAE Company engaged in fund remittance services not constitute a PE in India

December 24, 2020 1611 Views 0 comment Print

Union of India Vs U.A.E. Exchange Centre (Supreme Court) Respondent was not carrying on any business activity in India as such, but only dispensing with the remittances by downloading information from the main server of respondent in UAE and printing cheques/drafts drawn on the banks in India as per the instructions given by the NRI […]

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