14 February 2014
This section was brought in for exemption to tose foreign companies who were supplying Crude oil to INDIA asa there was shortage of crude oil and therefore this provisions were brought to exempt the purchase of crude oil supplied by foreign companies.
SECTION 10(48) OF THE INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961 - EXEMPTIONS - FOREIGN OIL COMPANY SELLING CRUDE OIL IN INDIA - NOTIFIED FOREIGN OIL COMPANY
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (48) of section 10, read with section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government, having regard to the national interest, hereby notifies for the purposes of the said clause, the National Iranian Oil Company, as the foreign company and the Memorandum of Understanding entered between the Government of India in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Central Bank of Iran on the 20th day of January, 2013, as the agreement subject to the condition that the said foreign company shall not engage in any activity in India, other than the receipt of income under the agreement aforesaid. 2. This notification shall be deemed to have come into effect from the 20th day of January, 2013.
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