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Section 197 Certificates Can’t Be Denied on Overturned Past Assessments: Delhi HC

Income Tax : The court held that tax authorities cannot rely on earlier findings already set aside by appellate bodies. Each Section 197 applic...

January 28, 2026 615 Views 0 comment Print

TDS u/s 195 on Sponsorship & Trademark Rights – Indo-Singapore DTAA

Income Tax : Payments for sports sponsorship that grant global trademark usage can be split as royalty. Courts upheld withholding where tradema...

January 1, 2026 1050 Views 0 comment Print

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 43012 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 450512 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 9561 Views 0 comment 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 1752 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 943 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 1163 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 1355 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 3029 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


No FTS on Project-Specific Design Services; ‘Make Available’ Test Not Met, No Disallowance u/s 40(a)(i)

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that consultancy payments for architectural services were not FTS since no technical knowledge was made availabl...

April 16, 2026 210 Views 0 comment Print

No TDS on Foreign Commission as Income Not Taxable in India: ITAT Rajkot

Income Tax : The Tribunal rejected the Revenue’s argument that taxpayers must seek AO determination under Section 195(2) in all cases. It hel...

April 10, 2026 369 Views 0 comment Print

Virtual Service PE Not Valid Ground to Deny Nil Withholding Certificate: Delhi HC

Income Tax : The court examined whether withholding tax could be imposed solely on the basis of an alleged virtual service permanent establishm...

January 19, 2026 459 Views 0 comment Print

DDT Must Follow DTAA Limits Because Dividend Is Shareholder Income: Bombay HC

Income Tax : Court held that dividend remains income of the shareholder and DDT is an additional income tax covered under Article 2, restrictin...

December 11, 2025 1293 Views 0 comment Print

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 480 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 33273 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 7321 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 14752 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 187048 Views 28 comments Print


Reimbursement of Audit fees to foreign parent company: Taxable

June 23, 2020 3945 Views 0 comment Print

SPX India Pvt. Ltd. Vs CIT (ITAT Delhi) Tax was required to be deducted at source on share of ISO audit expenses paid to foreign parent company, as element of income was embedded in receipt of auditor.  FULL TEXT OF THE ITAT JUDGEMENT Assessee is in appeal before us against the order of ld. CIT […]

Reimbursement of technical expenses-Cost Allocation: Non-Taxable

June 23, 2020 2817 Views 0 comment Print

Bureau Veritas-Indian Division Vs ADIT (ITAT Mumbai) Technical expenses allocated by head office to assessee-Indian division was in nature of reimbursement of technical expenses to head office and not on account of any specific technical services having been ‘made available’ and, therefore, such amount could not be brought to tax in hands of assessee under […]

No TDS on reimbursement of expenses to Sister concern on Cost basis

June 23, 2020 4497 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs Vishinda Diamonds (ITAT Mumbai) Sister concern made purchases of rough diamonds on behalf of assessee. Sister concern made payment of core service charges to vendor after deducting tax at rate of 15 per cent as per article 13 of the India-UK DTAA. Assessee reimbursed expenses to sister concern. HELD, There was no element […]

Per-Day Allowance during employee stay abroad: Non-Taxable

June 23, 2020 3033 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs Information Architects (Bombay High Court) The amounts paid by the assessee to its employees towards overseas maintenance allowance. These amounts were paid towards expenses at the rate of IEP 50 per day per employee. Held that these amounts constitute only reimbursement for the expenses incurred by the employees at a particular amount per […]

No TDS on Reimbursement of cost to cost management expenses to parent company

June 23, 2020 2778 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs Expeditors International (India) (P.) Ltd. (Delhi High Court) Assessee-company was engaged in business of supplying chain management, logistics and freight forwarding related to movement of goods and cargo within India or outside by road, rail, air or ship – It involved activities of packing, loading/unloading, trucking, tenderization, customs clearance and other cargo handling […]

No Tax on Payment for link charges to USA telecom service providers

June 23, 2020 2307 Views 0 comment Print

Convergys Customer Management Group Inc. Vs ADIT (ITAT Delhi) The assessee made payment for link charges to telecom service providers in the USA and cross-charged the portion of the cost incurred by it in connection with the India half link to CIS, which was accordingly reimbursed by CIS to assessee. The assessee has merely procured […]

Foreign Remittance: TDS u/s 195: Reimbursement of Expenses

June 21, 2020 315082 Views 18 comments Print

Taxability of Reimbursement of expenses has always been a contentious issue. In most of the cases, assessee gets away with non-taxability of reimbursement of expenses on the plea of no profit element. However, in some cases, even without profit element, tax authorities and courts have held reimbursement of expenses as income of recipient liable for TDS and taxability in India.

A brief Study on International Taxation

June 17, 2020 120163 Views 3 comments Print

International taxation in a simple language means the study of Taxation beyond the National Level. Though we all are very much aware about our Indian Taxation Laws but as time is demanding something more so, there is a need to study the taxation at another level.

Air France Pool Participation Income Not Taxable in India as per DTAA

June 16, 2020 1512 Views 0 comment Print

Air France Vs Addl. CIT International Taxation (ITAT Delhi) The issue under consideration is whether Indian branch is deriving income from technical handling to IATP Pool Members and non IATP Members is taxable in India? ITAT states that, in the present case, it can be seen that the Indian Branch office is merely a branch […]

Form 15CA & Form 15CB- Compliance for Foreign Remittances

June 12, 2020 255920 Views 38 comments Print

About Form 15 CA and Form 15 CB: The Income Tax Law of our country requires authentication of foreign remittances (payments) made to a Non Resident or Foreign Company, for any amount which is taxable as per the existing laws. For this purpose, certain rules and guidelines have been framed by the Income Tax Act for making foreign remittances.

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