Oil and natural gas prices have soared to multi-year highs recently, sending power prices surging to record levels as widespread energy shortages engulf Asia and Europe
There is little consensus among experts on whether or not the deal will bring in more revenues to India than the equalisation levy
In meet with US CEOs, Sitharaman says India offers a spectrum of opportunities to businesses
Govt must protect revenues under the new tax deal
OECD agreement to be deliberated by finance ministers of G20 nations on Wednesday
India introduced equalisation levy for digital advertising services in 2016 at the rate of 6 per cent
In addition, countries agreed not to impose new digital services taxes as of Friday
Paper by Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and Jindal Global Law School opposes digital service tax, currently imposed by individual countries, such as equalisation levy by India
In a Q&A, Pascal Saint-Amans, director at Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD says global digital tax and digital service tax by individual countries can't co-exist
OECD-led group aims to resolve issues by October 8 gathering
If the projections come out to be correct, India's economy would be the fastest growing large economy in both these years
OECD urged developed countries to put more effort into providing low-income countries with coronavirus vaccines in order to ensure that the global recovery from the pandemic is more even
Supply-chain difficulties, surging commodities prompted OECD to raise its forecast for consumer-price gains this year and next in every Group of Seven country aside from Japan
Ministers ratified the 400,000 barrel-a-day supply hike scheduled for October after less than an hour of talks, one of the quickest meetings in recent memory
The government has taken a balanced stance by committing to the multilateral approach for addressing tax challenges of digitalisation
This comes in the backdrop of India agreeing to the global tax deal proposal at the OECD, which will require New Delhi to withdraw the equalisation levy by 2023
Details of new global agreement will need to be scrutinised
Could mean India will have to withdraw 2% equalisation levy on firms by 2023
India and other developing countries were fighting to include companies with at least Euro 1 billion in revenues as against the final proposal of Euro 20 billion revenues and a profit margin above 10%
Governments around the world are jostling to safeguard their tax sovereignty and win a bigger share of levies on tech giants.