India Examines Taxability of Software and Cloud Service Income as Royalty; Misinterpretation of Licensing Rights Highlighted.

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....Income accrued in India - Taxability of revenue from sale of software - Royalty - The Cloud services merely facilitate the flow of user data from the front end users through internet to the provider’s system and back. The ld. AO has fallen in error in interpreting it as licensing of the right to use the above Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Software (para 10.5 of the Ld. AO order). Thus the subscription fee is not royalty but merely a consideration for online access of the cloud computing services for process and storage of data or run the applications. - AT....