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The government will look into more cross-border mergers involving Indian assets, like the Vodafone-Hutchison deal, after the Bombay High Court on Wednesday rejected UK-based Vodafone’s petition against the imposition of tax by authorities here.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the income-tax department’s contention that companies based in India were liable to deduct tax when they make any payment overseas, offering relief to domestic firms and multinational companies based here that w
The Finance (No.2) Act of 2009 introduced section 206AA under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (the ITA) to provide that any person who is entitled to receive any sum or income or amount, on which tax is to be withheld under the ITA shall furnish PAN to the person responsible for withholding of tax. In case PAN is not furnished, minimum withholding tax rate of 20% will have to be applied. This provision is now effective from1 April 2010.
The decision of tribunal reaffirms the position that after amendment to section 9 of the Act, what is required is that, the services should be utilized in India in order to be taxable in India irrespective of the situs of rendering of the services.
The cost of doing business in India could come down if the dividend distribution tax (DDT) levied on foreign shareholders is replaced with a withholding tax as under the current system, apex chamber Ficci has said. According to the chamber, foreign shareholders are unable to claim credit in the home country for DDT paid in India, resulting in a higher effective tax rate.
Close on the heels of Vodafone-Essar contesting a tax case in the Bombay High Court, tax sleuths have snared another multi-national company for tax evasion. This time, French pharma firm Sanofi Aventis, that acquired India’s Shantha Biotech last year, has been asked to pay Rs 650 crore as capital gains tax to the Indian government.
THE Indian tax authorities had advised British telecom major Vodafone to pay tax on its $11-billion acquisition of Hutchison Essar before it sealed the transaction, according to a recent income tax order. In a letter on March 23, 2007, the Income Tax (I-T) department had asked Vodafone to pay withholding tax, nearly one-and-a-half month before the telco made the payment to Hong Kong-based Hutchison International for buying two-third stake in Hutchison Essar.
Swiss banks have offered to tax the money deposited with them by Indians and other foreigners and “immediately deliver the cash” to governments of respective countries, rather than sharing the details of their clients. Switzerland has come under increasing global pressure to share information about black money stashed in its banks. Possibly as a response, Swiss banks have now offered to tax their foreign clients’ assets but are still wary of sharing details of their customers on grounds of privacy.
The Special Bench of the Tribunal, departing from the Karnataka High Court’s decision in the case of Samsung Electronics, rules that withholding tax obligation on payer applies on payments to nonresidents only if there is income chargeable to tax in India. Further obtaining CA’s certificate is an alternative procedure for lower or nil withholding cases.
This Tax Alert summarizes a recent ruling of the High Court (HC) of Delhi in the case of Van Oord ACZ India (P) Ltd. (Taxpayer) [2010-TIOL-187-HC-DEL-IT] on withholding tax obligation arising under the provisions of the Indian Tax Law (ITL) in respect of reimbursement of expenses to non-resident companies. The Delhi HC held that a payer is obligated to withhold tax only if the payment is chargeable to tax under the provisions of the ITL.
