Foreign tax credit for partnership legal-service receipts remains available where overseas income is taxed in India and documented.

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....Foreign tax credit for overseas legal and consultancy receipts is examined under the India-Japan DTAA and Rule 128. The notes state that Article 14 on independent personal services applies to individuals, while the Article 12(4) exclusion for professional services is confined to payments made to individuals; therefore, a partnership firm's Japanese legal-service receipts are not excluded from foreign tax credit on the basis that Article 14 exclusively governs them. Where gross overseas receipts are included in Indian taxable income and supported by Form 67 and authenticated foreign tax-deduction certificates, Rule 128 contains no stated restriction on credit for overseas taxes withheld.....