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沃达丰开放解决复古税收与印度行
英国集团将应用框架等争端解决后宣布。
孟买:沃达丰(Vodafone)集团计划解决的争端回顾应用税的资产转移,印度政府取消提供移动后,四人接近告诉发展等。
这可能结束十年税收争端英国电信公司和印度政府。
沃达丰将适用于解决此类争端的框架后,印度政府宣布在未来的几周内,根据上面提到的人。沃达丰(Vodafone)的一位发言人拒绝置评。
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”,公司将竭诚接受这个如果是一样有前途的政府声称它,”一位知情人士表示:沃达丰。
“比尔谈论某些条件和事业,公司将不得不考虑它,”另一位接近该公司的人士说。“如果这些条件舒适,然后在服从应该没有什么困难。是时候解决税务纠纷。”
就目前的情况来看,印度政府就撤回了申请在新加坡高等法院提起沃达丰争端结束,税务专家说。
大约17公司受到间接影响的资产转移条款,包括沃达丰、凯恩和白鼻综合症。专家表示,公司将等待精确的细节如何处理政府结束纠纷。
“政府没有规定间接转让资产的规则在退出诉讼,这也应该有公司可以如何的过程,”负责人Dinesh Kanabar, Dhruva Advisors的首席执行官税务咨询公司。“没有公司愿意继续诉讼,尤其是主权,而且在大多数情况下,他们愿意继续生活和商业。”
深入:湍流定义了沃达丰的印度之旅
沃达丰并不是唯一的外国电信在印度面临的惊涛骇浪。几个全球电信公司,包括阿联酋电信,Maxis Telenor,试过他们的运气在印度,但结果总是相同的。最后,他们被迫离开这个国家。
没有寻求赔偿
印度希望沃达丰在税收支付大约22100卢比,利息和罚金,将放弃该需求如果公司接受不寻求任何赔偿。
为政府最大的担忧是,一些公司可能寻求未来损失和成本。实体必须保证他们不会寻求与政府这样做而沉降。
”法律,所有的公司都可以从印度政府要求赔偿损失,但这并不是一个争端你想和一个很难赢,”一位高级律师是说间接转让股票的情况。
在2006年,和记电讯国际有限公司开曼群岛的子公司转让股份沃达丰(Vodafone)国际控股有限公司。因此,沃达丰收购多数股权Hutchison Essar 67%的印度电信公司。大部分的哈钦森的估值是来自印度资产和客户。在2007年,税务部门要求该公司纳税事务。的最高法院认为事务不纳税。
2012年,中国政府修订现有的所得税法律说任何的资产转移,大部分的价值(超过50%)是来自印度国内资产——将应纳税。这将包括间接的。政府重新对沃达丰的需求。
国际仲裁裁决对印度的税收需求。今年2月,印度挑战仲裁庭新加坡高等法院的判决。仲裁小组还要求印度支付37卢比对沃达丰的法律代表和其他成本。
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<\/figure>Mumbai: Vodafone<\/a> Group is planning to settle the dispute over retrospective application of tax on transfer of assets, following the Indian government moving to scrap the provision, four people close to the development told ET.
This could end the decade-old tax dispute between the British telecom company and the Indian government.
Vodafone will apply to the Indian government after the framework for settling such disputes is announced in the coming weeks, according to the people cited above. A Vodafone spokesperson declined to comment.
<\/div><\/div>India recently introduced a Bill to axe the retrospective tax<\/a> amendment introduced in 2012. The government has also promised to refund taxes already collected and withdraw all litigation and arbitration. In return, companies have to give an undertaking that they will withdraw litigation in all forums, and will forgo any damages, interest or other costs.
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\u201cThe company would wholeheartedly accept this if it\u2019s as promising as the government is claiming it to be,\u201d said a person close to Vodafone.
\u201cThe bill talks about certain conditions and undertakings and the company will have to look into it,\u201d another person close to the company said. \u201cIf these conditions are comfortable, then there should be no difficulty in complying. It\u2019s high time the tax disputes are resolved.\u201d
As things stand, the Indian government just has to withdraw the petition it filed in the Singapore High Court for the Vodafone dispute to end, tax experts said.
About 17 companies are impacted by the indirect transfer of assets provision, including Vodafone, Cairn and WNS. Experts said companies will wait for the precise details on how to approach the government to end the dispute.
\u201cThe government is yet to prescribe the rules around the withdrawal of indirect transfer of asset litigation, and that should also have the procedure of how companies can go about it,\u201d said Dinesh Kanabar, chief executive of Dhruva Advisors, a tax advisory firm. \u201cNo company would want to continue litigation, especially with a sovereign, and in most cases, they would like to move on with life and business.\u201d
Time for resolution
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\u201cThe company would wholeheartedly accept this if it\u2019s as promising as the government is claiming it to be,\u201d said a person close to Vodafone.
\u201cThe bill talks about certain conditions and undertakings and the company will have to look into it,\u201d another person close to the company said. \u201cIf these conditions are comfortable, then there should be no difficulty in complying. It\u2019s high time the tax disputes are resolved.\u201d
As things stand, the Indian government just has to withdraw the petition it filed in the Singapore High Court for the Vodafone dispute to end, tax experts said.
About 17 companies are impacted by the indirect transfer of assets provision, including Vodafone, Cairn and WNS. Experts said companies will wait for the precise details on how to approach the government to end the dispute.
\u201cThe government is yet to prescribe the rules around the withdrawal of indirect transfer of asset litigation, and that should also have the procedure of how companies can go about it,\u201d said Dinesh Kanabar, chief executive of Dhruva Advisors, a tax advisory firm. \u201cNo company would want to continue litigation, especially with a sovereign, and in most cases, they would like to move on with life and business.\u201d
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