Income Tax : An in-depth analysis of the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021. Understand the implications and changes to the Income Tax Act and...
Income Tax : During the years 2007 to 2008, India witnessed an immense hike of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in its Telecommunication Indust...
Income Tax : The Indian government in Budget 2012-13, amended the Income Tax Act, 1961 to retrospectively tax cross-border transactions in whic...
Income Tax : The Central government on 5th August introduced the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the Lok Sabha, to repeal the Retrospec...
Income Tax : ‘THE TAXATION LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2021‘ introduced in Lok Sabha on 05th August 2021 (passed on 06th August 2021) pr...
Income Tax : Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 Key Features of Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 1. Provides that no tax demand shall be ...
Income Tax : The government introduced the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which seeks to withdraw tax demands made under the Finance Act...
Income Tax : The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, in a major decision, has decided to accept the order of the H...
Income Tax : Correct Factual Position and the Circumstances that led to the Government’s Proposal to Withdraw from the Conciliation Measures ...
Income Tax : British telecom giant Vodafone has decided against making a provision in its balance sheet for the over Rs 11,000 tax claim made b...
Income Tax : Vodafone Idea Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) In this case Learned Departmental Representative could not disputed the proposition th...
Income Tax : Thus it is clear that non completion of hearing of this appeal is solely attributable to revenue. In these circumstances, we are o...
Income Tax : In a 2.5 billion dollar sigh of relief for Vodafone, and for other companies eyeing assets in India, the Supreme Court has ruled i...
Income Tax : The argument that “controlling interest” was transferred with the shares was not acceptable as the share purchase agreement ha...
Income Tax : Vodafone Essar Cellular Ltd. v. ACIT On this issue, the Kerala High Court observed that it was the SIM card which linked the mobi...
Income Tax : No tax demand shall be raised in future on the basis of the amendment to section 9 of the Income-tax Act made vide Finance Act, 20...
Income Tax : In section 9 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, in sub-section (1), in clause (i), in Explanation 5, after the third proviso, the follow...
Income Tax : Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 is introduced in Lok Sabha on 05th August 2021. Bill is further to amend the Income-tax Act, ...
Income Tax : A speculative news story being circulated in some section of media claiming that Attorney General has given opinion in favour ...
Income Tax : The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, in a major decision, has decided to accept the order of the H...
VODAFONE Essar, the country’s second-largest GSM telco, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the government-appointed special auditors. Auditor SK Mehta and Co in their 140-page report said there were no discrepancies in the books of Vodafone Essar as the telco’s accounting were in line with international standards, but added that the company may have to pay an additional Rs 188 crore as liabilities to the government.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India , the apex audit body, has decided to audit the accounts of five telcos– Bharti Airtel , Reliance, Tata, Vodafone and the state-run BSNL– for 2009-10. Telecom regulator TRAI has already appointed a nodal officer to facilitate this audit exercise.
Over a year after the Supreme Court dismissed telecom major Vodafone’s petition challenging Indian tax authorities’ jurisdiction over its $11.2-billion acquisition of Hutchison Essar in 2007, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warning that such tax treatment will affect India’s investment climate.
The Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has given an ultimatum to the auditors of three telecom majors — Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular and Bharti Airtel — to submit their final reports to the government by February 7. They are conducting a special audit into allegations of tax evasion.
Auditors Nayak and Kishnadwala, who are doing special audit for telecom major Bharti Airtel, have sought extension from the government by one-and- a-half months to submit the report. In April, DoT had ordered a special audit on five telecom companies — Bharti Airtel, Vodafone-Essar, Tata Teleservices, Idea Cellular and Reliance Communication — to check alleged mis-reporting of revenue to evade taxes and licence fee.
With the tax authorities out to prove that the existence of a large number of transactions in shares is to be treated as business income, while the focus of assessees generally has been on trying to refute the tax authorities arguments through stressing the various factual aspects related to the transactions, very often one tends to miss out on exploring the possible alternative contentions, which could mitigate the impact or at times even dissuade the Assessing Officer from treating such transactions as business transactions. What are these contentions?
On October 30, 2009, the Income-Tax Department issued a notice to Vodafone International Holdings BV (VIH BV) over its 11.2-billion dollar purchase of Hutchison Telecom’s Indian operations (Vodafone Essar) in 2007. “Vodafone International Holdings BV (VIH-BV) was required to file its explanation by November 16, 2009. However VIH BV has requested for further time till January 29, 2010,” Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
The Income Tax department has issued a detailed notice today (comprising 531 pages along with annexure running into 1901 pages) under section 201(1) and 201(1A) of the IT Act 1961 to Vodafone International Holdings BV(VIH BV) requiring it to show cause as to why it should not be held that the Department has competent jurisdiction to proceed against it for the default of non-deduction of tax at source from the payment of USD 11.2 billion made on 8th May 2007 to Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd (HTIL) for transfer of interest in the Indian company Hutch Essar Ltd (HEL).
This alert summarizes a recent ruling of the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) [2009-TIOL-12-ARA–IT] in the case of K.T. Corporation (Applicant) on the issue of whether a Liaison Office (LO), acting as a communication channel, will constitute a Permanent Establishment (PE) of the Applicant under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement between India and Korea (Tax Treaty). Considering the facts of the case
The Department of Telecom will appoint special auditors this week to verify the revenue figures of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular and Tata’s telecom companies, which operate in different areas of communications. The special auditors will be from the CAG panel, a senior DoT official told PTI .
