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Income Tax : The ITAT Kolkata held that delayed filing of Form No. 67 cannot deprive an assessee of Foreign Tax Credit under Section 90 and the...
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Income Tax : Notification No. 86/2010-Income Tax Whereas, an Agreement and the Protocol between the Government of Republic of India and the Gov...
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Foreign Tax Credit – ITAT held that Rules cannot override the Act and therefore the filing of Form. No 67 is not mandatory but it is directory.
With globalization, people and corporates venturing abroad for work and to explore foreign markets is common. This brings a need to pay taxes on income earned in foreign countries. The question is, if an Indian resident earns income and pays taxes abroad, can he claim credit of the taxes paid in foreign countries and if […]
The provisions of the DTAA cannot be thrusted upon the Assessee simply because the Assessee is a tax resident of a country with which India has entered into a tax treaty or on account of the mere perception of the AO that the Assessee may claim benefits under the tax treaty in subsequent years. 2. Short term losses should be eligible to be carried forward.
Nowadays on account of the globalized environment and expansion of business outside India, a person may earn income from more than one country and sometimes the same income may be taxed twice, once in the source country and other in the resident country as well. Let us know these two methods for taxing income earned by a person in more detail.
Relief Under section 90 if the country in which tax is paid has entered double taxation avoidance agreement with the Government of India. Relief Under section 91 if the country in which tax is paid has not entered into any agreement with the Government of India.
Recently I was asked a question by someone that at what rate TDS is to be deducted at the time of purchasing a property in India from a non-resident. The answer to the question lies in the simple reading of the Income Tax Act’1961. Let us examine the relevant Sections of the Income Tax Act’1961. […]
Gurgaon Investment Ltd. Vs DDIT (ITAT Mumbai) The issue under consideration is whether addition made on account of Transfer Pricing Adjustment towards interest on debentures invested in the Associated Enterprise (AE) Vital Construction Pvt. Ltd. (VCPL) is justified or not? Assessee, a non-resident company incorporated in Mauritius. Through one of its AEs based in Mauritius […]
In case , one earns income which suffers tax outside India, the Income Tax Act has clear provision of relief from such double taxation. The relevant provision are contained in section 90 and section 91 of the I T Act. Section 90 is applicable for the cases when the tax has been paid in a country with which India has signed comprehensive double taxation avoidance agreements. There are Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements with as many as 79 countries .Comprehensive agreements are signed with these countries and Limited agreements with these countries.
Section 206AA does not override provisions of section 90(2) and in case of payment made to non-resident, assessee correctly applied rate of tax prescribed under concerned DTAAs and not as per section 206AA because provisions of the DTAAs were more beneficial and DTAA acquired primacy in such case.
The Finance Bill 2017 proposes to amend sections 90 and 90A of the Act, to provide that where any ‘term’ used in an agreement entered into under sub-section (1) of Section 90 and 90A of the Act, is defined under the said agreement,
