Concept of Tax Information Exchange Agreement in India with Tax Havens and Secrecy Jurisdictions
Concept of Tax Information Exchange Agreement in India with Tax Havens and Secrecy Jurisdictions.
There is a great and importance of Tax Information Exchange Agreement in India because as per section 90(1) of Income Tax Act, 1961, Government of India i.e. Central Government can enter into Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with other countries so as to avoid double taxation of income in both the countries. The basic concept behind DTAA is to ensure that there should not be undue hardship in the hands of tax payers i.e. income earned in one country should not be taxed twice because of source and residence criteria in both countries and most importantly DTAA contains article usually article no. 26 which deals with Exchange of Tax Information which provides for various tax and financial information about the resident persons who have invested or have any significance financial presence in that territory to the other territory.
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