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MNCs, Indian tech companies spar over copyright tax“Indian companies that use imported software still want to continue withholding the tax at 10% but the latter claims that following the SC ...
Multinationals and Indian companies spar over tax on copyright following Supreme Court rulingThe question is whether Indian companies that use, sell, or market software — directly or installed in cell phones, computers etc— should d...
Can income arising on sale of software be branded as 'royalty'? SC settles the debateThe apex court has ruled that any sum paid by resident end users, as consideration for the resale/use of computer software, cannot be typic...
Big Tech firms see tax windfall after Supreme Court ruling on MicrosoftBig Tech firms, including Facebook, Amazon and Google, are set to file for tax refunds in India following a Supreme Court judgment on tax o...
No TDS required on import of shrink-wrapped software: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ruled that payments made by resident Indian end-users or distributors (such as technology companies) to o...
Payments by resident Indian end-users to foreign software manufacturers not taxable as royalty: SCIn one of the cases, Engineering Analysis Centre of Excellence Pvt. Ltd, a resident Indian end-user of shrink-wrapped computer software, di...
- Revise royalty definition to include software payments by subsidiaries to parent: Developing countries tell UN tax committee
Many developing countries including India want to tweak royalty definition in upcoming tax treaties
Budget 2015 should address problems of startup communityThe reality is that starting a company in easier is very difficult and closing one is maddeningly painstaking.
Nokia gets interim stay against Rs 2,000 crore I-T demandThe Delhi High court granted an interim stay to Nokia India on the demand after the mobile phone manufacturing company filed a petition cha...
- Payment for copyrighted goods not royalty: ITAT
The income tax department had asked Israel -based TII Team Telecom International to pay tax on software it sold to the Indian company.
- Payments to foreign companies for uploading ads not taxable: Income Tax Appellate Tribunal
Payments to a foreign company for uploading banner advertisements on portals are not liable to be taxed in India, ITAT has ruled.
- Payment made to foreign cos for software can be taxed here
Earnings made by foreign companies by supplying software and providing technical services to domestic entities will be taxed in India.
- Royal Biz: Microsoft case exposes opaque tax policy
New Income Tax Code should clarify how software revenue of multinationals in india would be taxed. Myths and facts of filing your tax retur...
- Microsoft told to pay tax on licence fee for software
Microsoft is liable to pay tax here on the licence fee charged to Indian users, an appellate authority has ruled.
- Payments by local cos for foreign software in tax net
Periodic payments by local firms to overseas companies for the use of software will be subject to tax.
- ITAT breather for Kotak Primus in mainframe case
Kotak Mahindra Primus, a car financing company in India, is spared from having to pay withholding tax in India on the maintenance charges i...
- Centre may settle tax dispute on IT imports soon
The question of whether tax is payable on import of packaged software products will soon be settled.