Editorial Services Payment Not Taxable as Fee for Included Service in India Due to Lack of Skill Transfer.

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....Income chargeable to tax as FIS in India - Fee for included service - The e-publishing work in the nature of editorial services comprising of page composition, language polishing, indexing, correcting faulty grammar and punctuation etc. sub-contracted to the assessee involves technical expertise, however, such expertise is not transferred by the assessee which can be independently applied by SPi India in future on its own without recourse to the assessee. - The impugned payment is not in relation to any services which make available any technical skill or know-how etc. to SPi India - Not chargeable to tax as FIS in India - AT....