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Place of Effective management means a place where key management and commercial decisions that are necessary for the conduct of the business of an entity as a whole are, in substance, made.
Residents are taxed on worldwide income and non-residents are taxed only on income sourced in India. Companies are treated as residents on satisfying either of the conditions: (a) incorporation in India (b) Place of Effective Management (‘POEM’) is in India. Accordingly, a company incorporated outside India and having its POEM outside India is considered as a non-resident.
POEM is the place where the ‘key management and commercial decisions that are necessary for the conduct of business of an entity as a whole are, in substance made. NEED: This concept is the test of residence for foreign companies to provide that a company would be treated as resident in India if its POEM in the previous year is in India for tax purposes.
Background The term “Place of Effective Management’ (POEM) had already been in existence in the Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘The Act’) for the purpose of application of special provisions for taxing shipping companies based on their POEM. However, the usage of the concept for the purpose of determination of residence of a foreign company […]
Guiding Principles for determination of Place of Effective Management (POEM) of a Company- The concept of Place of Effective Management (POEM) was introduced for deciding the residency status of a non-Indian company, by Finance Act, 2015 which is applicable from 1st April, 2017.
Now CBDT has issued final notification dated 22nd June, 2018 applicable from 1st April 2017 i.r.t. exception, modification & adaption of provisions of section 115JH for those foreign companies which are said to be resident in India on account of its POEM in any previous year but not in any of the preceding previous years.
With respect to opening WDV in case of the foreign company whose PoEM is determined in India and which is assessed to tax in the home jurisdiction, the final notification provides for 2 cases:
As the name suggests, Place of Effective Management means place where key management and commercial decisions that are necessary for the conduct of the business of the entity as a whole are, in substance made. It is introduced in the budget 2015 by Arun Jaitley (Finance Minister), but due to lack of guiding principles, its applicability is deferred from A/Y 2016-17 to A/Y 2018-19.
The CBDT has issued the Final Notification No. 29/2018 dated 22 June 2018 (applicable from AY 2017-18) for exception, modification and adaptation in respect of a foreign company said to be resident in India due to its place of effective management (POEM) being in India, under Section 115JH of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act). […]
Draft Notification of exception, modification and adaptation in respect of foreign company said to be resident in India under section 115JH of the Act The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on June 15, 2017 issued a Draft Notification (notification) vide F No. 370142/19/2017-TPL for exception, modification and adaptation in respect of foreign company said […]
