BHARTI AIRTEL LTD,NEW DELHI vs. ITO, TDS, WARD-1(1), INTERNATIONAL TAXATION, NEW DEL;HI
In the result, ground of appeal no
ITA 4580/DEL/2017[2009-10]Status: DisposedITAT Delhi06 Jan 2026AY 2009-10
Bench: Shri Vikas Awasthy & Shri Manish Agarwalआअसं.4580/धिल्ली/2017(नि.व. 2009-10) Bharti Airtel Ltd., Bharti Crescent, 1 Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, Phase Ii, New Delhi 110070 ...... अपीलार्थी/Appellant Pan: Aaacb-2894-G बिाम Vs. Income Tax Officer, Tds, Ward 1(1), International Taxation, ..... प्रनिवादी/Respondent New Delhi अपीलार्थी द्वारा/ Appellant By : Shri Anil Bhalla, Chartered Accountant प्रधििािीद्वारा/Respondent By : Shri Vikram Singh Sharma, Sr. Dr सुिवाई की निथर्थ/ Date Of Hearing : 09/10/2025 घोषणा की निथर्थ/ Date Of Pronouncement : 06/01/2026 आदेश/Order Per Vikas Awasthy, Jm:
For Appellant: Shri Anil Bhalla, Chartered AccountantFor Respondent: Shri Vikram Singh Sharma, Sr. DR
Section 201(1)
admittedly not the assessee’s case that the assessee - companies are residents of Netherlands. Similarly, it is also not in dispute that ‘place of effective management’ is United Kingdom and the case of the assessee- companies cannot even be covered by this criterion. That leaves us only with ‘any other ... other criterion’ referred to in the treaty has to be restricted to the genus of three earlier expressions i.e. domicile, residence and place of effective management. The key question, therefore, is whether ‘earning of dividends earned from the Netherlands’ can be said to belong to the same genus to which