New norms for taxing MNCs

Why is it in the news
  • The income tax department proposed a change in the methodology for taxing multinational companies (MNCs).
  • The MNCs having permanent establishment in India by giving weightage to factors like domestic sales, employee strength, assets and user base.
More in the news
    • As per the CBDT, MNCs that are incurring global losses or a global profit margin of less than 2% and have operations in India will be deemed to have made a profit of 2% of Indian revenue or turnover and will be taxed accordingly.
    • The Income-Tax department has Invited public comments on draft report of taxation methodology for multinational companies (MNCs) having permanent establishment in India.
    • CBDT has given weightage to factors like domestic sales, employee strength, assets and user base to determine taxation of MNCs.
    • It is expected to impact several permanent establishments especially of infrastructure projects which have incurred losses recently.
    • In case of digital companies, the weightage will be given to an additional fourth criteria of ‘user’ base.
    • That is an MNC having a fixed place of business in India is considered as having Permanent Establishment in India and is taxed as per domestic laws. 
 
Source
The Hindu.




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 20th Apr 2019