Streamline, simplify, and update the tax framework applicable to non-residents and foreign companies : Clause 207 of the Income Tax Bill, 2025 Vs. Section 115A of the Income-tax Act, 1961

Tax rates for non residents clarified: consolidated withholding regime, gross basis taxation, and filing exemptions streamlined.

Clause 207 consolidates tax treatment of specified Indian source incomes of non residents and foreign companies by prescribing rates for dividends, interest, royalties and fees for technical services, preserving concessional rates for IFSC incomes and infrastructure debt funds, and treating residual income at normal rates. It mandates gross basis taxation by denying deductions under specified sections, excludes specified incomes from deduction computations under Chapter VIII (with an IFSC exception), streamlines approval requirements for royalties and FTS, and exempts non residents from return filing where such incomes alone are subject to prescribed withholding tax.