Held that the manpower support required from assessee by TTL India was only of two personnel and, thus, assessee provided technical or consultancy services through its two employees which were consumed in provision of services itself and nothing was ‘made available’ to TTL India or TML for afterwards use. The assessee did not receive any fee for included services under article 12(4) and said fee is not chargeable to tax. Held that the assessee was a distributor of software licenses, who acquired software licenses from third party and sold same to Indian company against certain sum, since said sum was on account of sale of software licenses and not for parting with copyright of software, said amount could not be brought within ambit of Royalties under article 12 of DTAA. (AY. 2015-16)
Tata Technologies Inc. v. ACIT (IT) (2022) 209 DTR 166 / 215 TTJ 372 / 136 taxmann.com 161 (Pune)(Trib)
S. 9(1)(vii) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Fees for technical services-Technical collaboration-Design and Engineering services-Through its two employees which were consumed in provision of services itself and nothing was ‘made available’ to TTL India or TML for afterwards use-Not chargeable to tax-Sale of software license and not for parting with copyright of software-Not taxable as Royalties-DTAA-India-USA. [S. 9(1)(vi), Art. 12(4)]