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April 2010

Government of India signs revised Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with Finland

By Raman Jokhakar
Tarunkumar G. Singhal
Chartered Accountants
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The Government of India and
Finland signed a revised Agreement and Protocol for Avoidance of Double Taxation
and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income
(Agreement). As per the revised Agreement, withholding tax rates have been
reduced on dividends from 15 to 10% and on royalties and FTS from 15 or 10% to a
uniform rate of 10%. The intention of lowering the withholding tax is to promote
greater investments, flow of technology and technical services between India and
Finland. The revised Agreement also expands the ambit of the Article concerning
exchange of information to provide effective exchange of information in line
with current international standards. The Article inter alia provides that the
States shall not deny furnishing of the requested information solely on the
ground that it does not have any domestic interest in that information or such
information is held by a bank, etc. An Article for Limitation of Benefits to the
residents of the contracting countries has also been included to prevent misuse
of the Tax Treaty.


(Source :CBDT Press Release
No. 402/92/2006-MC

(03 of 2010), dated 15-1-2010)

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