Making a case for India's revised 'bilateral investment treaty' model to ensure investor protectionIndia aims to boost economic growth by attracting more foreign investment. Budget 2025 highlights the need for a stable investment climate ...
21 Oct, 2025, 11.25 PM IST
India’s FDI dilemma: Balancing sovereignty and investmentIndia’s investment posture reflects a conflicted identity — aspiring to global economic leadership while retreating from the very framework...
30 Jul, 2025, 01.38 PM IST
UK-India investment treaty lets companies sue government, sources sayIndia and the UK are set to include an Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism in their upcoming investment treaty, sources told...
02 May, 2025, 06.26 PM IST
New GST rule from April 1, 2025: ISD mandatory for input tax credit; not following will lead to ITC denial, minimum penalty of Rs 10,000GST: The government has made the ISD mechanism mandatory, effective April 1, 2025. This means that the distribution of common input tax cre...
18 Mar, 2025, 12.50 PM IST
Finance Ministry in talks to work out formal mechanism for global arbitrationThe finance ministry is collaborating with other ministries to improve handling of international arbitrations under bilateral investment tr...
26 Feb, 2025, 11.12 PM IST
FM Nirmala Sitharaman bats for SOP, structured official mechanism to better respond to global arbitration casesFinance minister Nirmala Sitharaman emphasized the need for a standard operating procedure (SOP) for managing international arbitration cas...
15 Feb, 2025, 08.42 PM IST
India-UAE BIT: More open investment environment at cost of regulatory sovereignty, says GTRIIndia's bilateral investment treaty with UAE now includes portfolio investments and reduces the local remedies exhaustion period from five ...
07 Oct, 2024, 05.57 PM IST
India reduces local remedies exhaustion period to 3 yrs for UAE investorsIndia has reduced the local remedies period for UAE investors from five years to three years under the new BIT, effective August 31. This t...
07 Oct, 2024, 04.03 PM IST
Cos with multi-state presence will have to register as ISD with GST authorities by April 1, 2025By April 1, 2025, companies with multi-state branches must register as Input Service Distributors (ISD) under GST law to distribute input t...
07 Aug, 2024, 12.49 PM IST
Navigating the evolution of Input Service Distributor under GSTISD scheme enables distribution of ITC received at one location across other branches of a company. It ensures that ITC is allocated in adh...
07 Mar, 2024, 11.26 AM IST
Interim Budget 2024: Cos need to register for Input Service DistributionCompanies with branches in multiple cities will now need to register for input service distribution (ISD) to claim input tax credit for ser...
02 Feb, 2024, 12.06 AM IST
Countries risk 'paying polluters' billions to regulate for climate: UN expertUN's David Boyd flags investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) as a barrier. With fossil fuel firms using ISDS to block environmental regul...
15 Dec, 2023, 05.47 PM IST
Holding shares of subsidiary not liable to GST, says CBICThe Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Monday came up with a series of clarifications including on the much disputed Input ...
18 Jul, 2023, 12.39 AM IST
Governments risk 'trillions' in fossil fuel climate litigationEnergy experts predict that more ambitious climate action from world leaders will significantly increase companies' use of a tribunal mecha...
12 Nov, 2021, 09.18 PM IST
Taxman want companies to split expenses on celebrity endorsements across unitsThe tax department has started questioning many companies as to whether they have distributed these common expenses across all their regist...
16 Sep, 2021, 08.45 AM IST
How developing countries like India are petrified of being dragged into international arbitrationBITs cannot be banished from the policy regime right now. India is obviously not yet ready or mature for the large mega-regionals.
09 Sep, 2015, 01.58 PM IST
- Trai issues consultation paper on ADC review
Telecom regulator, Trai on Wednesday set in motion a process for another round of tariff reduction with the issue of a consultation process...
31 Jan, 2007, 05.30 PM IST