Why India has become the boy who cried wolf India’s Ministry of Finance has been upping its efforts to lure foreign investors by reassuring them the country’s tax regime is not unfairly targeting foreign multinationals. By Joe Dalton August 31 2013
Double tax treaty protects gains on sale of mutual fund units from Indian taxation Foreign taxpayers with investments in mutual fund units will be reassured by an Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) decision that said their capital gains will be protected from Indian taxation... By Joe Dalton August 28 2013
Amazon asks US Supreme Court to hear New York sales tax case Amazon has filed a petition with the US Supreme Court to hear its sales tax case against the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance after it lost in... By Joe Dalton August 28 2013
Bombay High Court to hear E*Trade Mauritius case India’s Bombay High Court will hear the E*Trade Mauritius case concerning the taxation of capital gains arising from the transfer of shares from a Mauritius to an Indian company after... By Joe Dalton August 14 2013
Tyco International is latest taxpayer to challenge IRS on debt-equity in US Tax Court Fire protection and security company Tyco International is taking on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the US Tax Court after the tax authority tried to re-characterise intra-group financing transactions... By Joe Dalton August 14 2013
World’s leading tax controversy advisers revealed The third edition of International Tax Review’s Tax Controversy Leaders guide is out now. Find out who the top-rated disputes specialists are in your jurisdiction. By Joe Dalton August 13 2013
Australia’s MRRT to stay for now after High Court dismisses Fortescue claim Iron ore company Fortescue Metals has lost its attempt to throw out the minerals resource rent tax (MRRT) in Australia’s High Court meaning the tax is here to stay, for... By Joe Dalton August 07 2013
IRS wins another LILO case but slips up in arguing economic substance US life insurance company John Hancock has lost its Tax Court case concerning lease-in-lease-out (LILO) and sale-in-lease-out (SILO) transactions, meaning the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) continues its record of having... By Joe Dalton August 07 2013
Orange appealing $2.8 billion court defeat claiming French decision creates double taxa... Orange France is lodging an appeal with the Administrative Appeal Court of Versailles after it lost a case in which it argued that when an impairment reserve was not deducted... By Joe Dalton July 31 2013
