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2022 (10) TMI 108 - AT - Income TaxIncome accrued in India - Centralized services fee received by the appellant for rendering various marketing, advertisement & other services to customers in India - whether taxable as “Fees for Technical Services” (FTS) in terms of Section 9 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 as well as Article 12 of the India US Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) - HELD THAT:- As decided in own case [2019 (10) TMI 1447 - ITAT DELHI] main service rendered by the assessee to its clients-hotels was advertisement, publicity and sales promotion keeping in mind their mutual interest and, in that context, the use of trademark, trade name or the stylized 'S' or other enumerated services referred to in the agreement with the assessee were incidental to the said main service, it rightly concluded, in our view, that the payments received were neither in the nature of royalty under section 9(1)(vi) read with Explanation 2 or in the nature of fee for technical services under section 9(1)(vii) read with Explanation 2 or taxable under article 12 of the D TAA. The payments received were thus, rightly held by the Tribunal, to be in the nature of business income. And since the assessee admittedly does not have a permanent establishment under the article 7 of the D TAA 'business income' received by the assessee cannot be brought to tax in India. The findings of the Tribunal on this account cannot be faulted. Appeal of assessee allowed.
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