Tax Avoidance And Tax Evasion

Pranab sticks to guns on Voda, says Parl can amend tax laws

The Finance Minister said they would make amendments to the law to ensure that India did not become a tax have and firms like Vodafone could not make capital gains on assets in India without paying tax here or their country of origin.

Voda seeks Netherlands treaty to snub govt, will others follow?

Fearing that the Indian government will use the new tax laws to trap Vodafone to pay back around Rs 12,00o crore as taxes, the telco may just invoke a bilateral investment treaty between India and the Netherlands to avoid doing so.

F1: Ecclestone paid bribe to keep tax authorities at bay

"I had no alternative at the time," the 81-year-old Ecclestone told a Munich court, saying he had paid off a former employee of Germany's second-largest public sector Landesbank.