Extensive control of non-resident over Indian entity – A taxing relation
The Authority for Advance Rulings (Income Tax) in its recent ruling in the case of FRS Hotel Group has brought a question mark on the issue of operation and management contract for hotels. Though involvement of foreign players for operation and management of hotel properties is a common phenomenon, far-reaching implications of such contracts were not seriously considered till this ruling. The AAR based its ruling on the tests for fixed place PE, as laid by the Supreme Court in the case of Formula One World Championship Ltd., and was of the view that since the applicant had in substance taken over all the important functions in relation to operation and management of the Indian hotel under various agreements, the fixed place being the Indian hotel was rightly at the disposal of the applicant through which its business was carried on. It was held that the Indian hotel constituted fixed place PE of the applicant in India and the income received under different agreements by the applicant were taxable in India as business profits. In short, where the person enters into multiple agreements for a particular project (including agreements which are ancillary in nature), all the agreements are to be read together as a whole because reading of the agreements in isolation may lead to absurd and incongruent result...
Circular
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