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Latest documents
- Legal debate at tipping point over Notification extending GST deadline
The legal validity of the contentious CGST Notification No. 56/2023 (“Notification“), is facing challenges across multiple High Courts in India. The Notification, issued by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), extended the timeline for passing orders under Section 73(10) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (“CGST Act“) for financial...
- Q&A with McGeorge alumna Shweta Singh, ’10
Shweta Singh, ’10, is a University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law alumna and a seasoned legal professional with over 15 years of experience across diverse industries. Her work encompasses cross-border transactions in EMEA, APAC and Americas involving corporate legal advisory, compliance, contract management and dispute resolution. As a legal professional, Shweta has had opportunities to...
- Crypto Sales Prior to AY 2022–23: Taxable as Capital Gains?
The Raunaq Prakash Jain v. Income Tax Officer case addresses a significant cryptocurrency transaction-related taxation issue in India, i.e., whether gains arising from cryptocurrency sales should be taxed as “capital gains” or “income from other sources”. This decision is particularly important because it clarifies the tax treatment of cryptocurrency gains before the introduction of the...
- India’s Supreme Court Orders Stay While It Considers Constitutionality of Place of Worship Act
The Hindu reports on a controversial Order issued yesterday by India’s Supreme Court. The Order bars lower courts from accepting new lawsuits or entering orders in pending suits in which Hindu plaintiffs are attempting to reclaim temples destroyed by the Mughal Empire in the 16th century. Eighteen suits involving ten Muslim religious shrines are pending...
- Guest Post: India: Environmental Litigation Risks – D&O Liability Insurance
In the following guest post, Umesh Pratapa takes a look at environmental liability risks under Indian law and consider the D&O insurance implications. Umesh is the Author of the handbook on D&O liability insurance published by Institute of Directors (IOD), India, and Consultant – liability insurance. I would like to thank Umesh for allowing me...
- India raises majority of new trade issues at WTO meeting
India introduced more than half of the new trade concerns debated at a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting. Attendees at the November meeting of the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures addressed trade concerns related to food safety and animal and plant health. Members raised 64 specific trade concerns (STCs), including 13...
- GIFT-IFSC and LRS- Insurance Products for Resident Indians?
Background In recent years, the Indian government has made significant strides toward enhancing the operational framework of the International Financial Services Centre at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (“GIFT-IFSC”). GIFT-IFSC was established with an aim to redirect all financial transactions conducted by residents in foreign financial centres to India. By virtue of RBI circular[1] titled ‘Operational...
- Delhi High Court rules on taxability of a PE’s profits despite global loss
In a landmark ruling, the Hon’ble Delhi High Court (“Delhi HC”) has held that profits generated by a Permanent Establishment (PE) in India shall be liable to tax in India, even if the parent enterprise has incurred losses on a consolidated basis. This decision overturns the previous judicial position set forth in the Nokia Solutions...
- PERSONALITY RIGHTS – THE POWER OF INFLUENCE, ITS MISUSE AND PROTECTION
INTRODUCTION Publicity rights play an important role in India based on the culture of celebrity worship and the importance of the name, image, and likeness of sports, television and media personalities, political figures, musicians, etc. Indian intellectual property laws do not directly or explicitly recognize personality rights, but several regulations and provisions address the same....
- Delhi High Court grants tax-treaty benefits to Tiger Global’s Flipkart exit
The India–Mauritius Double Tax Avoidance Agreement (“DTAA”), entered into in 1983, has since been the subject matter of contentious litigations. The well-drafted and reasoned ruling of the Delhi High Court (“Delhi HC”), which explains the availability of benefits to a Mauritius-based investor, the significance of the tax residency certificate (“TRC”), the limitation of benefits (“LoB”)...
Featured documents
- Companies to Develop Drug to Kill E.coli
The Associated Press reports that U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. plans to work with India’s Gangagen Biotechnologies to develop a drug that uses benign viruses to kill the deadly E. coli bacteria in cattle. Gangagen developed the drug and signed an agreement last week with Elanco...
- On India trip, lawyers find it’s a small world
Richard and Carolyn Pena, left, and Indian tour guide A delegation of U.S. lawyers returned from India last month with a simple but important lesson: lawyers everywhere share a common bond, and that’s a passion to protect and defend the Rule of Law, sometimes during very difficult circumstances....
- Thomson Reuters Sends More Westlaw Jobs to India & Philippines
As my good friend Jason Wilson told me a few minutes ago, “it is a sad day for legal publishing.” As we mentioned back in April, Thomson Reuters was shutting down its Banks Baldwin operations in Ohio and “after it closes, the work will be shifted to New York, Minnesota, the Philippines and India.” ...
- Outsourcers Exempt from India’s Privacy Regulations
On August 24, 2011, India's Ministry of Communications & Information Technology issued a clarification regarding India's new privacy regulations, indicating that outsourcing service providers in India will not need to obtain consent from individuals before processing their data....
- And Now For Something Completely Different — Employment News From Abroad
As Americans debate the political and legal implications of the “rights” agenda, we forget that there is a world out there beyond us, whose citizens are engaging in the same debate over the same subjects, and suing over the same claims. So much for “American exceptionalism” when it comes to civil...
- Interview Waiver Program (IWP) Expanded in India
The Visa Interview Waiver Program (IWP) has been expanded to include more categories of eligible applicants....
- FDA Takes First Public Mobile App Enforcement Action
FDA took its first publicly announced enforcement action against a mobile app developer on May 22, issuing an “It Has Come to Our Attention Letter” to India-based app developer, Biosense Technologies. Although FDA reportedly has approached app developers in the past about obtaining 510(k)...
- Indian Supreme Court Reaffirms Severability Principle of Arbitration Agreements
In Reliance Industries Ltd. & Anr v. Union of India, the Supreme Court of India has again declined jurisdiction to consider an application to set aside an UNCITRAL award in an arbitration seated outside India, finding that the intention of the parties was that Indian arbitration law would not apply ...
- E-1/E-2 Trade and Investment Treaty with India: Why not?
Why isn’t there an E-1 Trader or E-2 Investor Treaty between the US and India? This question came to mind again while I was working on an E-2 Treaty Investor case for a Canadian citizen who was born in India. It occurred to me how peculiar it was that except for being a Canadian citizen,......
- Dates of Filing for October 2015 change significantly, impacting EB2 and EB3 India and China
In follow up to my post of 9/17/2015 in which we explained the Department of State’s new procedures for establishing immigrant visa filing dates (vs. final action dates), please be advised that the DOS has updated those dates (on 09/25/2015). Anyone who plans to file for Adjustment of Status in...