{"id":54785,"date":"2025-06-11T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/cit-v-laserwords-us-inc-2025-302-taxman-216-madhc\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:35:05","slug":"cit-v-laserwords-us-inc-2025-302-taxman-216-madhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/cit-v-laserwords-us-inc-2025-302-taxman-216-madhc\/","title":{"rendered":"CIT v. Laserwords US Inc. (2025) 302 Taxman 216 (Mad)(HC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assessee, non-resident US company, entered into a marketing agreement with its holding company SPITL, situated in India. The\u00a0 assessee received\u00a0\u00a0 sales commission as a \u00a0consideration for marketing services. The \u00a0Assessing Officer held that amount received by assessee was in nature of fee for included services (FIS) as per terms of India-US DTAA. Tribunal held that sales commission received by assessee was not in nature of FIS. On appeal High Court affirmed the order of the Tribunal. (AY. 2017-18)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. 9(1)(vii) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Fees for technical services-Non-resident company-Sales commission-Not in nature of Fee for Included Services (FIS)-DTAA-India-USA. [S.260A,  Art. 12]  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-income-tax-act"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-efD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54786,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54785\/revisions\/54786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}