Corporate taxation is an essential aspect of doing business in India and its importance cannot be undermined. These days the tax authorities in India are focusing more towards enforcing compliance and expanding the tax base with e-governance and digitisation gaining importance. As such, understanding the impact of developments in tax and strategically using it to the benefit of business is becoming increasingly important.

We can help you develop tax-efficient strategies and manage your tax exposures considering your individual business needs. We will keep you abreast of new developments in the India corporate taxation arena that affect your business.

Our corporate tax advisory services include the following:

• Business structuring and investment strategies in respect of investments to be made in Indian subsidiaries of Foreign Companies;
• Optimizing tax incidence through application of tax incentives, tax holidays and benefits, double tax avoidance treaty networks, use of intermediate companies;
• Dealing with issues in international tax relating to taxability of income arising from cross-border transactions, analyzing provisions of Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements and Multilateral Instruments (“MLI”) between India and other countries;
• Review of the agreement's of overseas companies with Indian entities & advising on the tax implications in India with tax optimization measures;
• Advisory on withholding tax obligations on payments;
• Advisory on taxability issues arising on payment aspects of royalties, fees for technical services;
• Advisory in relation to mitigating permanent establishment exposure to a foreign enterprise in India
• Advisory on transaction specific tax implications;
• Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (“BEPS”) risk analysis & advisory;
• Tax-planning strategies for profit and dividend repatriation;
• Ascertaining uncertain tax positions from FIN 48 perspective;
• Help resolve uncertain tax positions;
• Tax diagnostic reviews;
• Tax due diligence; and
• Regulatory advice under Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) guidelines.