Retro tax settlement scheme to open from June 1
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The rules framed for implementation of the scheme shall be notified in the Official Gazette shortly and shall include a form as well as particulars and declarations to be made, government sources said.
The scheme, they said, will open on June 1 and will not be an open-ended scheme. Its closure date will be decided by the Revenue Department later.
The details of the scheme will be issued once the Finance Bill, 2016 is approved by Parliament in second leg of Budget session beginning April 25.
Sources said companies would have to provide a proof of withdrawal of "any proceeding for arbitration, conciliation or mediation or any notice thereof under any law for the time being in force or under any agreement entered into by India with any other country or territory outside India whether for protection of investment or otherwise."
The company would also have to furnish an undertaking waiving its right to seek or pursue any remedy or any claim in relation to the specified tax which may otherwise be available to it under any law or under an agreement with any country.
The company availing of the offer would have to pay the principal tax amount within 30 days of the designated authority determining the amount payable by the declarant.
Also any amount paid in pursuance of a declaration shall not be refundable under any circumstances.
The rules once framed would be placed before both Houses of Parliament for any modification the law makers may want to make.
Announcing the one-time scheme of Dispute Resolution for companies which are facing tax demand for retrospective amendment to I-T Act, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had in his Budget speech said: "They can settle the case by paying only the tax arrears, in which case liability of the interest and penalty shall be waived."
While Vodafone faces a total of Rs 14,200 crore in tax, interest and penalty over its 2007 USD 11 billion acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa's India telecom business, Cairn Energy has been asked to pay a total of Rs 29,000 crore as tax on alleged capital gains made on a 2006 internal business reorganisation.
Both the firms have challenged the tax demands and have initiated international arbitration.
Sources said the government was of the view that the arbitrations are not just time consuming but were also costing the government a lot besides getting India a bad name.
The settlement scheme was proposed to put an end to all of it. (PTI - Economic Times)
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