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India budget 2013: key changes affecting international investors

  • White & Case LLP
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  • India
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  • March 14 2013

On February 28, 2013, India's Finance Minister presented the country's budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2013 (Budget). The Budget

Sanofi wins the indirect way

  • Singh & Associates
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  • India
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  • February 28 2013

Taxation Environment in a Country has also been and always remains a matter of concern for foreign investors. A foreign investor always

Taxation of an investment by an Indian individual in shares of a foreign country

  • Singh & Associates
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  • India
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  • February 28 2013

Sometimes Tax treatment of income arising by an Individual may not be clear from direct provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961, an

Finance Minister announces 2 year breather from GAAR

  • Nishith Desai Associates
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  • India
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  • January 15 2013

FIIs, private equity players and other India focused strategic investors have reason to celebrate, thanks to the Finance Minister's confirmation

No retro-tax on offshore M&A, recommends Shome Com

  • Nishith Desai Associates
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  • India
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  • October 15 2012

Last week, the Ministry of Finance released the much awaited report on retroactive amendments relating to taxation of indirect transfer of shares assets in India (“Report”

Update on India

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • India
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  • August 15 2012

The Indian Cabinet of Ministers has recently approved the draft Public Procurement Bill 2012 (Procurement Bill), which will be tabled before the Indian parliament

UK telecommunications company Vodafone recently receives favorable ruling from Supreme Court of India

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
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  • India
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  • June 26 2012

This past January, the Supreme Court in India ruled in Vodafone International Holdings B.V v. Union of India,Civil Appeal No. 733 of 2012 (arising from S.L.P. (C) No. 26529 of 2010) that the sale of stock of a company that was non-resident in India to another non-resident company was not subject to income tax in India

Foreign investors threatened by Indian measures seek remedies through international investment arbitration

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • India
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  • May 17 2012

The Indian government recently began implementing taxation and telecom license cancelation measures that may affect a large number of foreign investors

Indian tax on indirect transfers of shares: the decision of the Indian Supreme Court in Vodafone and India’s proposed retrospective counteracting legislation

  • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
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  • India
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  • May 4 2012

On 20 January 2012 the Indian Supreme Court found that India had no basis to tax the sale by a non- Indian subsidiary of indirect interests in an Indian telecoms company, Hutchison Essar

Vodafone to pursue international arbitration over India tax proposal

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • India, Netherlands
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  • April 20 2012

On Tuesday, Vodafone warned India’s government that it will initiate international arbitration proceedings if the government refuses to withdraw pending legislation to impose retroactive taxes on transactions between Indian and foreign companies, charging that the proposal violates Vodafone’s rights under an investment treaty between the Netherlands and India