Income Tax : The guide explains how residents can avoid double taxation through DTAA benefits, Foreign Tax Credit, and Section 91 relief, outli...
Income Tax : The article explains how India has broadened Permanent Establishment and Business Connection concepts after BEPS reforms. It highl...
Income Tax : xplains how the functions performed by an Indian subsidiary are tested under Article 5 to determine whether a foreign company form...
Income Tax : The analysis explains how activities of a liaison office can trigger PE exposure despite regulatory approval. Taxability depends o...
Income Tax : Highlights how the Court ruled that consistent operational control and strategic oversight in India can establish a Fixed Place PE...
Income Tax : The OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs has proposed important and far-reaching changes to the Commentary on Article 5 (Permanent Est...
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...
Income Tax : A Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement was signed between India and Tajikistan today, i.e. 20th November, 2008. The Agreement was s...
Income Tax : The Bombay High Court held that only the royalty retained after an APA adjustment is taxable, applying the doctrine of real income...
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 Delhi ITAT ruled that no installation or supervisory PE existed in India as the activities did not exceed the 120-day threshol...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that offshore supply receipts could not be taxed under Section 44BB where the Revenue failed to prove the existe...
Income Tax : Bangalore ITAT ruled that only solar days and not cumulative man-days should be considered while determining the existence of a Pe...
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...
Income Tax : Public Consultation on the proposal for amendment of Rules for Profit attribution to Permanent (PE) Establishment invited by CBDT....
ACIT Vs Mitsui & Co. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) The facts in brief are that the assessee-company is incorporated in Japan and had a subsidiary in India, Mitsui India Pvt. Ltd. (MIPL). In India, assessee has undertaken several projects in connection with big natural installment and power projects during the relevant year through its project office. […]
The issue under consideration is whether revenue generated from the bookings made within India is the revenue attributable to the PE of the assessee is taxable in India?
DCIT Vs Shamrock Pharmachemi Pvt.Ltd. (ITAT Mumbai) We find that assessee is engaged in the business of trading activity of import and export of pharmaceutical ingredients, chemicals and intermediates. We find that the assessee debited a sum of Rs. 4,18,50,792/- in its profit and loss account towards export commission paid to overseas agents, who arrange […]
Avoidance of Permanent Establishment (PE) status of Non-Residents are made through various arrangements. Company structures their business in way that status of PE can artificially be avoided. The definition of permanent establishment included in tax treaties is therefore crucial in determining whether a non-resident enterprise must pay income tax in another jurisdiction. Strategies used to […]
The issue under consideration is whether DRP is correct in considering the Liaison Office (LO) and Land Earth Station (‘LES’) constitutes a permanent establishment (PE) in India?
ACIT Vs Mitsui & Co. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) The AO asked the assessee to explain why Mitsui India Pvt. Ltd (MIPL) should not be treated Dependant Agent Permanent Establishment (DAPE) in India and also why the assessment should not be completed as per the preceding assessment year since the facts remain the same. Rejecting the […]
Mitsui & Co. Ltd. Vs DDIT (International Taxation) (ITAT Delhi) Since the lower authorities following the orders of the preceding years have held that M/s. Mitsui & Co. Ltd. has been constituted as Dependent Agent PE of the assessee company in India, therefore, following the consistent decisions of the Tribunal in assessee’s own case in […]
With the incessant global growth, the relevance of Permanent Establishment (PE) in international taxation has become paramount. In simpler terms, the expression ‘Permanent Establishment’ means a fixed place of business through which the business of an enterprise is wholly or partly carried on.
whether the office which is established merely for the sake of communication is covered under the character of Permanent Establishment (PE) under India-Korea DTAA?
Whether notional interest income on the loan (interest-free) that was advanced by the assessee to its AE would be assessable as the income of the assessee which has a business connection or Permanent Establishment (PE) in India?
