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The Delhi High Court has directed income tax officials to abandon a "fetching extra revenue" mindset and instead adopt a pragmatic, justice-oriented approach, warning that aggressive tax actions contradict India's stated objective of improving theease of doing business. A division bench comprising Justice Dinesh Mehta and Justice Vinod Kumar observed that tax officers must decide cases involving foreign companies seeking tax relief strictly in accordance with lawand not be influenced by revenue
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The Delhi High Court directed income tax officials to abandon a 'fetching extra revenue' mindset and instead adopt a pragmatic, justice-oriented approach in cases involving overseas companies seeking tax relief.
A pragmatic approach is important because aggressive tax actions contradict India's objective of improving the ease of doing business, discouraging foreign entities and hampering economic growth.
Section 197 Certificates allow recipients of payments like royalties or interest to receive them with reduced or zero tax deduction at source, preventing over-deduction where the actual tax liability is lower or nil.
Routinely rejecting or restricting these certificates has serious economic consequences, hitting the business environment and the idea of providing ease of doing business, ultimately hampering economic growth.
No, the court clarified that denying nil or lower TDS certificates merely as a precautionary or revenue-protective measure is unjustified, as the Income Tax Act already provides sufficient powers to tax authorities where income is chargeable.
The High Court directed the tax department to issue a nil TDS certificate for SFDC Ireland not only for the current assessment year but also for subsequent years, after accepting that the company had no Permanent Establishment in India and payments were not taxable.
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