COURT: | AAR |
CORAM: | V. S. Sirpurkar J |
SECTION(S): | 245R |
GENRE: | International Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | Fees for technical services, India-UK DTAA, make available |
COUNSEL: | Rajan Vora |
DATE: | January 12, 2016 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | January 26, 2016 (Date of publication) |
AY: | - |
FILE: | Click here to view full post with file download link |
CITATION: | |
Managerial services rendered by a UK Co to an Indian Co, even if technical in nature, is not assessable as “fees for technical services” under Article 13 of India-UK DTAA if it does not “make available” any skill, technical know-how etc |
To fit into the terminology ‘make available’, the technical knowledge, skills etc must remain with the person receiving the services even after the particular contract comes to an end. The services offered may be the product of intense technological effort and lot of technical knowledge and experience of the service provider would have gone into it. But, that is not enough to fall within the description of services which make available the technical knowledge, etc. The technical knowledge or skills of the provider should be imparted to and absorbed by the receiver so that the receiver can deploy similar technology or techniques in future without depending on the provider
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