Special taxation regime for offshore funds relaxed to ease corpus and remuneration conditions for fund managers in India.

Section 9A provides a safe harbour excluding business connection and residency of an eligible investment fund solely because fund management is undertaken by an eligible fund manager in India, subject to conditions on fund residence, corpus, diversification and arm's length remuneration. Proposed amendments relax the corpus condition to require a minimum corpus of one hundred crore rupees at the end of six months from establishment or at the end of the previous year, and replace the remuneration test with an amount to be prescribed; the changes operate retrospectively from 1st April, 2019 for the relevant assessment year and thereafter.

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