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Countrywise Withholding Tax Rates: IT Act vs. Tax Treaties/DTAA

Income Tax : Detailed comparison of dividend, interest, royalty, and FTS withholding tax rates between India's Income-tax Act and over 60 Doubl...

October 19, 2025 41635 Views 1 comment Print

Countrywise Withholding Tax Rates / Chart as per DTAA

Income Tax : An analysis of Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) withholding tax rates across various countries for dividends, interest, ...

October 17, 2025 437639 Views 28 comments Print

TDS on Non-Resident Payments: Section 195 Analysis

Income Tax : In-depth analysis of Section 195 TDS on payments to non-residents, covering taxability, DTAA interaction, PAN rules (206AA), Form ...

September 25, 2025 1590 Views 0 comment Print

TDS Obligations: Reimbursement of Expenses vs. Fee for Technical Services

Income Tax : Delhi HC rules reimbursements to NRAEs not subject to TDS as "fees for technical services," clarifying scope of Section 9(1)(vii) ...

September 25, 2024 1776 Views 0 comment Print

Sale of Property in India by an NRI – TDS provisions for Buyers & Sellers

Income Tax : Understand TDS provisions for buyers and sellers in the sale of property in India by an NRI. Get insights into tax rates, implicat...

July 24, 2024 281547 Views 60 comments Print


Latest News


Additional Income-tax on distributed income by company for buy-back of unlisted shares

Income Tax : 20% Withholding Tax Rate on profits distributed by unlisted companies to shareholders through buy-back of shares Existing provisio...

February 28, 2013 1635 Views 0 comment Print

Vodafone pays over USD 400 mn more to buy Essar's 33 per cent stake

Income Tax : Ending year-long battle, UK-based Vodafone has agreed to pay USD 400 million more to its Indian partner Essar for buying its 33 pe...

July 3, 2011 841 Views 0 comment Print

After Vodafone verdict IT department will investigate more cross-border mergers involving Indian assets

Income Tax : The government will look into more cross-border mergers involving Indian assets, like the Vodafone-Hutchison deal, after the Bomba...

September 11, 2010 1079 Views 0 comment Print

Reminder : Person receiving income subject to withholding tax is required to obtain Permanent Account Number (PAN)

Income Tax : 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...

July 4, 2010 1238 Views 0 comment Print

Replacement of dividend distribution tax with withholding tax to boost business

Income Tax : The cost of doing business in India could come down if the dividend distribution tax (DDT) levied on foreign shareholders is repla...

June 30, 2010 2912 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


SC Admits Tesco Plea on Service Tax for Overseas Employee Secondment

Income Tax : Supreme Court admits appeal by Tesco Bengaluru against CESTAT ruling on reverse charge service tax for seconded overseas employees...

October 17, 2025 159 Views 0 comment Print

No Section 40(a)(i) Disallowance for Purchases from Foreign AEs without PE in India: Delhi HC

Income Tax : Delhi High Court rules purchases from foreign AEs without a PE are not taxable in India, preventing Section 40(a)(i) disallowance ...

September 15, 2025 246 Views 0 comment Print

TDS Not Deductible on Foreign Bandwidth, 80G allowed on CSR Donation

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai holds that payments for foreign bandwidth do not attract TDS; also upholds deduction u/s 80G for CSR donations not cla...

August 8, 2025 270 Views 0 comment Print

Cross-Cost Charges Not Royalty, AO to withholding Issue NIL Tax Certificate: Delhi HC

Income Tax : Delhi High Court held that payment of cross-cost charges doesn’t construed as royalties within scope of Article 12(3) of the Ind...

June 17, 2025 180 Views 0 comment Print

Reimbursement of Salaries to Seconded Employees Does Not Constitute FTS

Corporate Law : Karnataka HC upholds Flipkart's stance on TDS under Section 195, ruling seconded employees' salaries as reimbursements, not taxabl...

March 16, 2025 1356 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT notifies New Form 15E and rule 29BA

Income Tax : CBDT vide notification No. 18/2021-Income Tax, Dated: March 16, 2021 inserted new rule 29BA. Application for grant of certificate ...

March 16, 2021 32016 Views 1 comment Print

S. 40(a)(i) Tax Withholding on ‘Other sum chargeable’ of non residents

Income Tax : For the purpose of making disallowance of other sums chargeable under Section 40(a)(i) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, in the case of...

October 29, 2016 7054 Views 0 comment Print

Relaxation from deduction of tax at higher rate U/s. 206AA

Income Tax : 37BC. Relaxation from deduction of tax at higher rate under section 206AA.– (1) In the case of a non-resident, not being a compa...

June 24, 2016 14350 Views 1 comment Print

CBDT relaxes conditions for furnishing of Form 15CA & Form 15CB

Income Tax : Notification No. 93/2015 - Income Tax G.S.R. 978(E) dated 16th December, 2015 A CA certificate in Form No. 15CB will be required t...

December 16, 2015 185356 Views 28 comments Print


Detailed Analysis of Section 195 along with latest case laws

May 16, 2021 13905 Views 0 comment Print

Any person responsible for paying to a non-resident, not being a company, or to a foreign company, shall deduct income-tax thereon at the rates in force is responsible to deduct tax u/s 195 of the act. Nature of Payment a) Any interest (not being interest referred to in section 194LB, 194LC and 194LD). b) Any […]

No section 195 TDS on payments by Airport Authority to Federal Aviation for technical assistance & cooperation

May 4, 2021 3942 Views 0 comment Print

Airports Authority of India Vs ITO(TDS) (ITAT Delhi) Conclusion: TDS under section 195 was not applicable on payments made by company to the Federal Aviation Administration, USA (FAA), for providing technical assistance to AAI by way of providing its personnel and meeting on ATFM requirements and assisting AAI in connection with ATFM by development of […]

Withholding Tax rate of 5% on payment of dividend to resident of Netherlands after applying MFN Clause

April 22, 2021 7260 Views 0 comment Print

Withholding tax rate of 5% is to be applied while making payment of dividend by Indian entity to its shareholder in Netherlands after applying the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) clause in the Tax Treaty between India and Netherlands.

Section 195 TDS not deductible if Income not taxable in India

March 18, 2021 1509 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Force Motors Ltd. (ITAT Pune) During the First Appellate Proceedings before the Ld. CIT(Appeals), it was submitted by the assessee that payments were made to technical consultants from Japan, Germany and Italy. The assessee submitted that these consultants are not residents of India and further their stay in India was less than the […]

Application to AO in New Form 15E under Rule 29BA & Section 195

March 18, 2021 16059 Views 2 comments Print

CBDT issued notification No. 18/2021-Income Tax, Dated: March 16, 2021 & inserted a New Rule Rule 29BA. The Rule would be effective from 1 April 2021.

CBDT notifies New Form 15E and rule 29BA

March 16, 2021 32016 Views 1 comment Print

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 […]

SC ruling: No TDS on payment of Royalty to Non resident

March 7, 2021 14250 Views 0 comment Print

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 […]

No penalty for deduction of TDS at Lower Rate under wrong section

October 15, 2020 6054 Views 0 comment Print

Jitendra Sharma Vs JCIT (Intl Taxation) (ITAT Indore) ITAT Indore held that no penalty under Section 271C to be levied for deduction of tax under Section 194IA @1% instead of Section 195 @ 20.6% on purchase of property from Non Resident. FULL TEXT OF THE ITAT JUDGEMENT The above captioned appeals filed at the instances […]

No income tax on Revenue from IDC/Management /Referral Agreement under India-Singapore DTAA

August 6, 2020 1362 Views 0 comment Print

The issue under consideration is whether income tax levied on revenue received from IDC agreement, management agreement, and referral agreement as per the India-Singapore DTAA?

Interest Income as ‘Beneficial owner’ cannot be taxed under Article 11(3)(c) of India-Mauritius Tax Treaty

July 28, 2020 2346 Views 0 comment Print

The issue under consideration is whether as per India-Mauritius DTAA, Interest Income from Foreign Currency loan and Securities would be eligible to tax in India?

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