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S. 10(13A) : House rent allowance-Loan to spouse-Purchase of house property in the name of wife-House rent paid to wife-Denial of exemption is not valid. [S. 64]

Abhay Kumar Mittal v. DCIT (2022) 194 ITD 224/ 217 TTJ 252/ 213 DTR 61 (Delhi)(Trib.)

S. 9(1)(vi) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Royalty-Granting access to its data base and user of data base-Not to be considered as royalty-Not liable to deduct tax at source-DTAA-India-USA. [Art. 12]

OVID Technologies Inc. v. DCIT IT (2022) 194 ITD 768 (Delhi) (Trib.)

S. 9(1)(vii) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Fees for technical services-Management support services to its Indian subsidiary-Master consultant sharing agreement to supply manpower-Miscellaneous services to third parties in India-Not taxable as FIS-DTAA-India-USA. [S. 9(1)(vi), Art. 12]

Everest Global Inc. v. DIT (IT) (2022) 194 ITD 729 (Delhi)(Trib.)

S. 9(1)(vi) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Royalty-Information technology support services to its group entities-Matter remanded-DTAA-India-USA. [S. 9(1)(vii), Art. 12]

Kennametal Inc. v. ACIT (2022) 194 ITD 617 (Bang.)(Trib.)

S. 9(1)(vi) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Royalty-Supply of software embedded in hardware equipment-Not royalty-Addition was deleted-DTAA-India-France. [Art. 13]

DCIT v. Alcatel Lucent International. (2022) 194 ITD 368 (Delhi) (Trib.)

S. 9(1)(vi) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Royalty-Business of marketing advertisement time of different television channels-Secret formula or process-payment made for utilization of transponder centered on a satellite would not constitute royalty-Not liable to deduct tax at source-DTAA-India-USA-UK-Malaysia. [S. 195(2), Art. 12, 13]

ACIT(IT) v. Viacom 18 Media (P.) Ltd. (2022) 194 ITD 263 (Mum.)(Trib.)

S. 9(1)(i) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Business connection-Dependent Agency Permanent Agency-Indian subsidiary to distribute subscription supported television programming service to Indian subscribers-Distribution income cannot be taxed in India-Indian subsidiary was remunerated at ALP by assessee, no further profit/income could be said to be attributable to assessee for purpose of taxation in India-transponder fee and uplinking charges to US based company for providing facilities of telecasting channels of assessee in India-Not royalty-DTAA-India-Mauritius-India-USA. [S. 9(1)(vi), 195, Art. 5(4), 12]

Taj TV Ltd. v. ACIT (2022) 194 ITD 547 (Mum.)(Trib.)

S. 9(1)(i) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Business connection-Interest-Interest on income tax refund-Interest on income tax refund is not effectively connected with PE either on basis of asset-test or activity-test and, hence, it is taxable as per provisions in Para No. 2 of article XI of Indo-US DTAA-DTAA-India-USA [S. 9(1)(v), 90, Art. 11]

Transocean Offshore International Ventures Ltd. v. DCIT (IT) (2022) 194 ITD 129 (Delhi)(Trib.)

S. 9(1)(i) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Business connection-Shipping, Inland waterways transport and Air Transport-Income received by non-resident for giving weather routing report in form of analysis of data in tabular form/graphical representation is not chargeable to tax.

ITO v. Terapanth Foods Ltd. (2022) 194 ITD 614 (Rajkot) (Trib.)

S. 9(1)(i) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Business connection-Shipping inland waterways transport and air transport-Freight income received on account of transportation of cargo on vessel under slot arrangement basis is eligible for benefit of exemption to assessee under article 8 of DTAA between India and Germany. DTAA-India-Germany. [Art. 8]

Hapag-Lloyd AG. v. DCIT (IT) (2022) 194 ITD 20 (Mum.)(Trib.)