Question : TAX DEDUCTED AT SOURCE BY MNCS



(a) whether about 103 multinational companies have not deducted tax at source in respect of part of the salaries paid to their employees abroad for services rendered in India during the financial year 1998-99;

(b) if so, the amount of tax evaded by these companies alongwith the names of such companies;

(c) the amount out of total tax evaded recovered so far;

(d) the further steps being taken by the Government to recover the entire amount of tax from these companies;

(e) whether any inquiry has also been conducted in this regard; and

(f) if so, the outcome thereof?

Answer given by the minister


MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI GINGEE N. RAMACHANDRAN)

(a):- During the financial year 1998-99, it was noticed that a number of multinational companies did not deduct tax at source in respect of part of the salaries paid to their employees abroad for services rendered in India.

(b), (c) & (d):-The entire amount of tax, including statutory interest thereon, amounting to more than Rs. 640 crores has already been recovered by the Income Tax Department. The names of the companies are as per Annexure.

(e) & (f):- Surveys u/s 133A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, have been conducted on a number of multinational companies. Statutory interest has also been charged in all the cases. Further, penalty u/s 271C of the Act for failure to deduct tax at source has since been levied in a number of such cases, wherever applicable.

ANNEXURE

SL.No.	Name of the Company
1. All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd.,

2. M/s Anritsu Corporation

3. M/s I.H.I

4. M/s Denso India

5. M/s Fuji Bank Ltd. 6. M/s EPDC

7 M/s Japan Broadcasting cor.

8. M/s Ericsson communication Pvt. Ltd.

9. M/s Alcatel Modi Networks Systems 10. M/s Alcatel South Asia Pacific Ltd. 11. M/s Cegelec India Ltd. 12. M/s Cegelec India Ltd. (Noida Office) 13. M/s Hyundai Engg. & Constn. Co. 14. M/s Daewoo Motors India Ltd. 15. M/s Banque Pariba 16. M/s Aeroflot 17. M/s Japan Radio Co. Ltd. 18. M/s Asahi Glas Co. Ltd 19. M/s Casio Bharti Mobile Communication Ltd. 20. M/s Fujitsu Limited 21. M/s Itochu Corporation 22. M/s Chori Co. Ltd. 23. M/s Escorts Yamaha Motors Ltd. 24. M/s Fuji Photo Film (Singapore) 25. M/s Hitachi Cables Ltd. 26. M/s Exedy Ceekay Ltd. 27. M/s Honda Motors Co. 28. M/s Kenwood 29. M/s Juky Singapore 30. M/s Hitachi India Trading Pvt. Ltd. 31. The Bank of Tokyo 32. The Sakura bank Ltd. 33. Japan Airlines 34. M/s Sanwa Bank Ltd. New Delhi 35. M/s National Panasonic 36. M/s Nissho Iwai corpn. 37. M/s Mitsubishi Corpn. 38. LG Electronics 39. M/s Samsung Electronics 40. The Commerical Bank of Korea Ltd. 41. The Bank of Nova Scotia 42. M/s Nokia Pvt. Ltd. 43. M/s Lifthansa Airlines 44. M/s Tokyo Motors Corpn. 45. M/s Sony India Pvt. Ltd. 46. M/s Sony Gulf 47. M/s Sony Corpn. Ltd. 48. M/s SWS India Holding Ltd. 49. M/s Sumi Motherson Innovative Engg. Ltd. 50. M/s Sumi Motherson Integrated Technologies Ltd. 51. M/s Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd. 52. M/s NEC Corpn. 53 M/s Marubeni Corpn. New Delhi. 54. M/s YKK India Pvt. Ltd. 55. M/s Mitsui Construction Co. Ltd. 56. M/s Mitsui Kensetsu India Pvt. Ltd. 57. M/s TS Tech co. Ltd. 58. M/s Sumitomo corpn. 59. M/s Sandan Vikas India Ltd. 60. M/s Toshiba Corpn. 61. M/s Marubeni Corpn. Project Office 62. M/s Marubeni India Pvt. Ltd. 63. M/s Mitsui Marine and Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. 64. M/s Terumo Corpn. 65. M/s Mitsubishi Electronic Corpn. India Liaison Office 66. M/s Showa Corpn. (Munjai) 67. M/s Morirqko Corpn. Ltd. 68. M/s Mitsui & co. 69. M/s KEIHN corpn. 70. M/s Subros Ltd. 71. M/s Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. 72. M/s Riso Kagako Corpn. 73. M/s Kenwood corpn. 74. M/s Lumax Industries Ltd. 75. M/s Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd. 76. M/s Matsushita Television & Audio India Ltd. 77. M/s Satake Corpn. 78. M/s Matsushita Electric works Ltd. (National Panasonic) 79. M/s Nissho Iwai Corpn.(Bombay Office) 80. M/s Toyota Tsusho Corpn. 81. M/s Pioneer Electric Corpn. 82. M/s Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. 83. M/s ICI India Ltd. 84. Nomura Trading Co. Ltd. 85. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. 86. Kinsho Matai -chi Corporation 87. Sumikin Bussan Corporation 88. The Asahi Bank Ltd. 89. The Sumitomo Marine & fire Insurance Corpn. 90. The Sumitomo Bank Ltd. 91. Nichimen Corpn. 92. Tomen Corpn. 93. Hitachi G. Motor Eng. Ltd. 94. Sakura Capital Market 95. M/s Kawasho Corpn. 96. M/s Nagase & co. Ltd. 97. M/s Murate Machinery Ltd. 98. BPL Sanyo Ltd. 99. BPL Sanyo Finance 100. Yokagawa Bluestar 101. Indo Nissin Foods Ltd. 102. Juki Singapore Ltd. 103. Hitachi Koki.