Income Tax : Tax on dividends, interest, royalties and FTS earned by non-residents is governed by the more beneficial rate under the Income-tax...
Income Tax : The applicable withholding tax depends on the Income-tax Act or the relevant DTAA, whichever is more beneficial. Treaty rates diff...
Income Tax : Section 194-IA requires buyers of immovable property to deduct TDS at 1% when the sale consideration or stamp duty value is ₹50 ...
Income Tax : When a resident buys unlisted shares from a non-resident, TDS must be deducted on gross consideration under Section 195, subject t...
Income Tax : Payments for sports sponsorship that grant global trademark usage can be split as royalty. Courts upheld withholding where tradema...
Income Tax : Direct & Indirect Taxes : Monthly Updates Date & Time – 3rd December 2022 (Time:11 a.m to 12:30 p.m) Tax Guru is Organiz...
Income Tax : Clarification on certain procedural and technical issues regarding the Income Disclosure Scheme, 2016 (IDS) under section 119 of t...
Income Tax : Finance Act, 2012 extended the obligation to withhold taxes to non- residents irrespective of whether the non-resident has -...
Income Tax : Government has recently modified the Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account Transactions) Rules, 2000 and the Liberalized Re...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court judgement on Vodafone tax case seems to have opened a Pandora's box with exporters too expressing reservation on...
Income Tax : Interest income earned by a foreign bank from foreign currency loans extended to Indian corporates was taxable on a gross basis. S...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held legal services are not FTS under Section 9(1)(vii) and directed partner-wise DTAA examination. FTS addition was de...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that IT, salary and travel reimbursements without any profit element were not taxable and deleted the disallowance...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court held the ITAT failed to properly examine the ‘make available’ test for secondment payments, set aside its ord...
Income Tax : ITAT held no TDS was required as the Revenue failed to prove the services made technical knowledge available under the India-US DT...
Income Tax : CBDT notifies the Income-tax (Seventh Amendment) Rules, 2025, updating Forms 26Q and 27Q to include Section 194T on payments to fi...
Income Tax : it has been decided that no such request for Form 15E for certificates under section 195(2) & 195(7) for a particular Financial Ye...
Income Tax : CBDT vide notification No. 18/2021-Income Tax, Dated: March 16, 2021 inserted new rule 29BA. Application for grant of certificate ...
Income Tax : Clarification on orders dated 31.03.2020 and 03.04.2020 issued under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) by CBDT vid...
Income Tax : In case of pending applications for lower/nil rate of TDS/TCS for F.Y. 2019-20, the Assessing Officers have been directed to dispo...
CBDT vide notification No. 18/2021-Income Tax, Dated: March 16, 2021 inserted new rule 29BA. Application for grant of certificate for determination of appropriate proportion of sum (other than Salary), payable to non-resident, chargeable in case of the recipients and also released new FORM No. 15E – Application by a person for a certificate under section […]
DCIT Vs Sisecam Flat Glass India Ltd. (ITAT Kolkata) Monitoring fees paid by the assssee to DEG Bank, Germany qualified as ‘interest’ both under Income-tax Act, 1961 as well as the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement between India & Germany and the payment made in question was not liable to Income-tax under the Act in terms […]
The Hon’ble Supreme Court on 2nd March 2021 in the case of Engineering Analysis Centre of Excellence Private Limited Vs CIT, put a rest to the contentious issue of tax on Payment by end users or tech companies in India to suppliers abroad on import of software as ‘Royalty’. Let’s understand what was the issue […]
Q 1. Who has to submit Form 15CA and 15CB? Ans. Any Person, responsible for paying any sum to a Non Resident, not being a Company, or to a Foreign Company, shall furnish Form 15CA and 15CB. Such sums sought to be remitted outside India may be chargeable or may not chargeable to tax in […]
Supreme Court Judgement in the case of Engineering Analysis Center of Excellence Private Limited vs. The Commissioner of Income Tax – dated 2nd March, 2021 TDS on Software purchased from Non-Residents ♠ The matter before the Supreme Court was – Whether payment made to Non-residents in the following 4 cases are ‘Royalties’ as per applicable […]
Engineering Analysis Centre of Excellence Private Limited Vs CIT (Supreme Court of India); Civil Appeal Nos. 8733-8734 of 2018; Dated: 02/03/2021 Issues Involved : 1. The amounts paid by the residents in India to non-resident, foreign software suppliers; amounts to royalty, there by necessitating withholding of taxes under section 195 of Income Tax Act. 2. […]
What is of importance is that once a DTAA applies, the provisions of the Income Tax Act can only apply to the extent that they are more beneficial to the assessee and not otherwise. Further, by explanation 4 to section 90 of the Income Tax Act, it has been clarified by the Parliament that where any term is defined in a DTAA, the definition contained in the DTAA is to be looked at.
Reliance Corporate IT Park Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Payment for software, by no stretch of logic, can be treated as a payment for “a process” liable to be taxed as royalty. When database access by itself does not result in taxation as royalty, such database access being coupled with software licence cannot bring the […]
The issue under consideration is whether the CIT(A) is correct in stating that TDS u/s 195 applicable on software expenses without appreciating the fact that appellant was merely acting as a distributor and not having right to have a copy of the software?
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 […]
