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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?
The issue which is arising in the present appeal is whether there is DAPE. The Assessing Officer has alleged the existence of DAPE on account of alleged marketing activities undertaken by Indian entity on behalf of the assessee company.
Whether the agent in India was a ‘Dependent Agent’ constituting a permanent establishment (PE) and the appellant was, therefore, liable to be taxed as per India UK DTAA?
A foreign entity in Japan is appointing an sales agent in India to market and sell their products. They are not setting up an Indian entity, not hiring an employee in India but only appointing a full time agent in India. Can such a person be construed as a permanent establishment (PE) for the Japanese […]
Multi-National Companies (‘MNCs’) are allowed to set up their presence in India subject to the Foreign Direct Investment policy and other relevant regulations. One such presence that MNCs typically try to build is in the form of a liaison office (‘LO’) in India. Such offices are set up by foreign enterprises to understand the Indian market and to carry out certain pre-defined limited activities. For setting up an LO, necessary approval is required.
According to thisVirtual Permanent Establishment (VPE) theory, it is proposed that the taxing nexus for electronic commerce should be “the continuous commercially significant conduit of business activity”, rather than the fixed place of business. The virtual PE approach applies to the jurisdictional criterion for source-based taxation of profits.
What are Permanent Establishments? The most important issue in the treaty based international fiscal law is the concept of Permanent Establishment (PE). All the models of conventions namely:
With this article, we would like to explicate the concept of Foreign Companies and PE in light of Indian Income Tax Act provisions. Foreign Companies ♠ Foreign company means a company which is not a domestic company, i.e. a company registered outside India in any other foreign country. [Section 2(23A)] ♠ The Foreign Company may […]
It is, therefore, proposed to amend section 94B of the Act so as to provide that provisions of interest limitation would not apply to interest paid in respect of a debt issued by a lender which is a PE of a non-resident, being a person engaged in the business of banking, in India.
