Place of Effective Management Under IT Act: Implications of POEM
The Finance Bill, 2015 introduced the concept “Place of Effective Management” (POEM) to determine foreign companies’ residential status. This resulted in an amendment in the Income Tax Act, the word “control and management” was replaced with “POEM.” Accordingly, Indian companies started setting-up subsidiaries in tax havens jurisdictions and vested superficial control of their international operations to continue […]
