TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
Insertion of new section 9A - Certain activities not to constitute business connection in India.
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....in India of the said fund. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 6, an eligible investment fund shall not be said to be resident in India for the purpose of that section merely because the eligible fund manager, undertaking fund management activities on its behalf, is situated in India. (3) The eligible investment fund referred to in sub-section (1), means a fund established or incorporated or registered outside India, which collects funds from its members for investing it for their benefit and fulfils the following conditions, namely:- (a) the fund is not a person resident in India; (b) the fund is a resident of a country or a specified territory with which an agreement referred to in sub-section (1) of section 90 or su....
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....onnection in India nor has any person acting on its behalf whose activities constitute a business connection in India other than the activities undertaken by the eligible fund manager on its behalf; (m) the remuneration paid by the fund to an eligible fund manager in respect of fund management activity undertaken by him on its behalf is not less than the arm's length price of the said activity. (4) The eligible fund manager, in respect of an eligible investment fund, means any person who is engaged in the activity of fund management and fulfils the following conditions, namely:- (a) the person is not an employee of the eligible investment fund or a connected person of the fund; (b) the person is registered as a fund manager or an inv....
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....ember of the fund manager of such fund, holds, either individually or collectively, share or interest, being more than fifteen per cent. of its share capital or interest, as the case may be; (b) "corpus" means the total amount of funds raised for the purpose of investment by the eligible investment fund as on a particular date; (c) "connected person" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (4) of section 102; (d) "entity" means any entity in which an eligible investment fund makes an investment; (e) "specified regulations" means the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Portfolio Managers) Regulations, 1993 or the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Investment Advisers) Regulations, 2013, or such other regulations made....