Mutual tax recovery enables cross-border enforcement by domestic authorities acting on foreign tax collection requests under treaty terms.
Clause 418 creates a mutual tax recovery framework under international agreements: foreign authorities may send a certificate to the central tax board to be executed by the Tax Recovery Officer against residents or property in India in the same manner as domestic tax arrears, with recovered sums remitted net of expenses; conversely, the TRO may forward domestic recovery certificates to the Board for action abroad when the assessee is a foreign resident or has foreign property, with the Board acting pursuant to the terms of the relevant agreement.