Permanent Establishment and Business Connection: foreign consultancy receipts not attributable where no fixed base or corporate veil piercing establis...
Limitation period commencement and procedural inquiry rules: identity-based limitation upheld; complaints by authorised public servants need not attra...
Territorial nexus limits taxation of a non-resident's foreign bank deposits: amounts held abroad are taxable in India only if received or deemed received in India, or if they accrue/arise or are deemed to accrue/arise in India; Sections 5(2) and 9 cannot be stretched to tax sums outside India. The Revenue bore the burden to prove Indian sourcing of deposits and failed to discharge that onus (ei qui affirmat incumbit probatio), so additions could not be sustained. Re taxing income already subjected to tax in other hands or years is impermissible, supporting deletion of the addition and dismissal of the appeal.
Territorial nexus limits taxation of a non-resident's foreign bank deposits: amounts held abroad are taxable in India only if received or deemed received in India, or if they accrue/arise or are deemed to accrue/arise in India; Sections 5(2) and 9 cannot be stretched to tax sums outside India. The Revenue bore the burden to prove Indian sourcing of deposits and failed to discharge that onus (ei qui affirmat incumbit probatio), so additions could not be sustained. Re taxing income already subjected to tax in other hands or years is impermissible, supporting deletion of the addition and dismissal of the appeal.
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