DTAA protection for overseas employment per-diem: non-resident salary from UK assignment was held not taxable in India.

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....Per-diem received by a non-resident employee for services performed in the United Kingdom was not chargeable to tax in India where the employment was exercised abroad, the stay in India was below the prescribed period, and a UK tax residency certificate was produced. The Tribunal applied Article 16(1) of the India-UK DTAA, read with section 90, and held that remuneration arising from the UK assignment was taxable, if at all, in the United Kingdom and not in India. The addition made by treating the per-diem and related salary adjustment as Indian taxable income was therefore deleted.....