The Commissioner of Income Tax - International Taxation -1 vs. Amazon Web Services, Inc
ITA/150/2025HC Delhi29 May 2025
Bench: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIBHU BAKHRU,HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TEJAS KARIA
For Appellant: Mr. Ruchir Bhatia, SSC, Mr. Anant Mann, JSCFor Respondent: Mr. Porus Kaka, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Rohit Jain
Section 144C(13)Section 147Section 148Section 195Section 201Section 260ASection 9
…whether payments for cloud computing are taxable as royalty under the Act and the relevant Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement has been the subject matter of various decisions. 42. In CIT (International Taxation) v. Salesforce.com Singapore Pte. Ltd.: (2024) 465 ITR 257, a coordinate bench of this Court had considered the question whether fees for CRM service provided by the assessee [Salesforce] to businesses and industries would be taxable as royalty under the Act and the India-Singapore Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement. In the said case, Salesforce maintained a CRM platform, access to which was granted to…