| COURT: | ITAT Chennai |
| CORAM: | G. Pavan Kumar (JM), Pramod Kumar (AM) |
| SECTION(S): | Article 12, Article 13(4), Article 21 |
| GENRE: | International Tax |
| CATCH WORDS: | Fees for technical services, India-Thailand DTAA, Other income |
| COUNSEL: | Raghunathan Sampath |
| DATE: | January 31, 2017 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | March 17, 2017 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | 2011-12, 2012-13 |
| FILE: | Click here to view full post with file download link |
| CITATION: | |
| Taxability of "Other income" under DTAA: Income which is not chargeable under specific provisions of Articles 6 to 21 cannot be taxed under the residuary provision. Only income not covered by specific Articles (e.g. alimony, lottery income, gambling income, damages etc) can be charged as "Other income" | |
An income is of such a nature as, on satisfaction of conditions specified in the related provision, could be taxed under any of these specific treaty provisions, cannot be covered by this residuary clause. Take for example, income earned by a resident of a contracting state by carrying on business in the other contracting state. When, for example, article 5 provides that the income of resident of a contracting state, from carrying on business in the other contracting state, cannot be taxed in the source state unless such a resident has a permanent establishment in the other contracting state, i.e. source state, it cannot be open to the tax administration of source state to contend that even if it cannot be taxed as business income, it can be taxed as ‘other income’ nevertheless. It is important to bear in mind the import of expression ‘not expressly dealt with in the foregoing articles’.
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