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Secondment Taxation and the Northern Operating Systems Case

[Sumanth Sudharshan is a fourth-year B.B.A.,LL.B. student at Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat] Secondments are employment arrangements where an organization sends its employees to another organization to work for them. With more businesses operating globally, secondments allow companies to hire from associated entities for specialized skills or specific technical requirements. Secondments are...

Non-Discrimination Clauses: Harmonising the ITA and Double Tax Avoidance Agreements

[Rudra Shankar is an associate at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. and Dyuthi Sutram is a fourth-year B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune] Double tax avoidance agreements (‘DTAA’) most often include a ‘non-discrimination clause’, which states that no national from one contracting state, or permanent establishment which an entity of a contracting state has in the other...

Will the Budget Proposal to Reduce Appeals by the Revenue Department Make Tax Litigation More Efficient?

[Surya Prakash BS is a chartered accountant and law graduate working at DAKSH, a non-profit working on transforming the law and justice systems. He has handled finance and tax functions at corporates in his previous roles. Views are personal] The 2022 Union Budget makes one more attempt to reduce the volume (the number of cases) and velocity (frequency of filing) of income tax litigation. The...

Analysing the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021

[Arya Mittal is a 3rd year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur. The author would like to thank Dr. Anindhya Tiwari for his valuable inputs in the article.] The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021 recently received the President’s assent. The amendment came nearly nine years after some provisions were introduced in taxation laws that retrospectively taxed...

Provisional Attachment Orders under GST: Exception or the Norm?

[Amritesh Anand is a penultimate year student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] Enforcement authorities under the GST regime have been vested with a powerful tool under section 83 of the Central Goods & Services Tax Act, 2017 (“CGST Act”) to carry out provisional attachment of property of assessees. The rationale is to ensure that Government interest in revenue is not prejudiced by...

Taxing the Fund Managers: The Future of Pass-Through Status of Trusts

[Shambhavi Sinha is a final year B.B.A.,  LL.B. (Hons.) student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune] The Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) allows an Alternative Investment Fund (“AIF”) to be constituted as a trust, a company, a limited liability partnership (“LLP”), or a body corporate under the SEBI (Alternative Investment Funds) Regulations, 2012 (the...

Coveted Tax Relief For Covid-Care Policies: An Employers’ Perspective

[Kavya Mathur and Pragya Chandak are law graduates from National Law University, Jodhpur] The unprecedented Covid-19 health crisis has had a grim impact on all facets of life, including the disruption of business, people’s livelihoods and even the loss of life. While employers are persevering to stay afloat themselves, there is undoubtedly also an element of altruism and sincere concern for the...

Rule 86A of the CGST Rules – Ripe for Constitutional Challenge

[Aaryana Anand is a 4th year BSc. LL.B (Hons.) student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar] Rule 86A (‘rule 86A’) was inserted in theCGST Rules, 2017 (‘Rules’), with effect from 26 December 2019. The said provision provides wide powers to the Commissioner or an officer authorized by him, not below the rank of an Additional Commissioner, to impose restrictions on Input Tax Credit...

Tax Deductibility in the Light of the New CSR Regime

[Shivani Pattnaik and Sourav Jena are undergraduate students at the National Law University, Odisha] Recently, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”) along with the Government of India has amended section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”), thereby bringing upon significant changes to corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) regulations in India. After years of mandated CSR in the...

AIF Units as ‘Securities’ and its Ripple Effect on Taxation

[Priya Maharishi and Vansh Singla are 4th B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) students at Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat] With the growth of start-ups and early-stage companies, there is a continuous need for long-term capital investments and management expertise. Pooled investment funds can fulfil this need as they have forbearance unlike other sources of capital like public funding. These pooled investment...

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