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...
Citing the Supreme Court order in the Vodafone case, the Bombay High Court today dismissed the SABMiller writ petition against a showcause notice issued by the Income Tax Department. CNBC-TV18’s Ashwin Mohan reports on how this matter is similar to the Vodafone case? This case is similar to the Vodafone tax tussle. The Income Tax Department order on Vodafone is still pending.
. There is no dispute or dis-agreement regarding the nature of transactions entered into between the assessee and its distributors. The assessee company, by virtue of the licence issued by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, is engaged in providing Mobile telephone services to the public at large. The Govt, of India s allotting the licence to various parties in the field on the basis of geographical specifications.
25. There is no dispute or dis-agreement regarding the nature of transactions entered into between the assessee and its distributors. The assessee company, by virtue of the licence issued by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, is engaged in providing Mobile telephone services to the public at large. The Govt, of India s allotting the licence
In a move to plug loopholes that led to the alleged tax evasion by telecom giant Vodafone, the Income-Tax Department will make it mandatory for firms to submit information to it online before remitting payments to foreign companies, from July this year. “The information … shall be furnished electronically to the website designated by the […]
Buoyed by a favourable Supreme Court order in the Vodafone tax case, the income-tax department has asked E*Trade Mauritius to pay capital gains tax on the sale of its shares held in Indian company IL&FS Investsmart to HSBC in September 2008. E*Trade Mauritius is indirectly held by E*Trade Financial Corporation and is in the business […]
The income tax (I-T) department has widened the scope of the investigation of the tax liability on Vodafone-Essar, India’s fourth-largest mobile service provider, to other offshore transactions associated with Vodafone’s buyout of Hutchison Whampoa’s 67 per cent stake in an $11.08 billion deal in 2007. Sources close to the development said the department had sent […]
THE Supreme Court today simply dismissed the much-hyped USD two billion Vodafone capital gains tax case at the admission stage itself. Before rejecting the SLP, the Bench asked the assesee – why did they not furnish the copy of their original agreement to the Court and also to the Revenue? In reply the assessee spoke about their delayed offer and promised to make the same available any time.
This is what DOT has told to the government that any phone which doesn’t have a valid IMEI Number will be banned starting next year think they started with a date of Jan 6th and may be they will move that or extend it to March 2009. This means 13 percent of the Chinese and Korean mobile phones which either doesn’t have a valid IMEI number or has all 0’s will get banned , This is to take care of security threat that those mobile phones are causing , this is a very good move .
The government may introduce provisions in the new direct tax code to prevent misuse of double taxation avoidance agreements India has with other countries. The new code is likely to be unveiled before the year ends. A government official said a discussion paper on the code, a major initiative undertaken under the guidance of the former finance minister and present home minister P Chidambaram, is being fine-tuned.
Since August last year, the world has been watching. It all began with a show cause notice issued to Vodafone BV (based in the Netherlands), holding it to be an “assessee in default” for not withholding tax at source when it made payments to a Hutchison Group company (based in Cayman Islands) for acquiring shares of another Cayman Island company.
