tHE FUND TO INDIA MUST COME AS NO NATION EXCEPT MD BIN TUGHLAQ CAN BYPASS
INDIA; SO MUCH WORK IS GOING ON SHARE MODULE INCLUDING FOREIGN AND DEBT
FUNDS WHERE PEOPLE TAKE INTEREST; AND DEPT HAS ALREADY CONSTITUTED SEPARATE
DIVISIONS IN THE ORGANISATIONS TO MONITR4. MOST YOUTHS AND ELDERS
SPENND ONE HOUR QUALITY TIME IN THE MORNING SO WITHOUT THE HM SCHOOL
RUNNING IS IMPOSSIBLE.  MANY EVADERS ARE COMING INTO THE GROOVE OR ELSE
EVEN A PETTY OFFICER CAN SEIZE IN FUTURE  WAIT AND WATCH  KR IRS 22126

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 at 09:30
Subject: [society4servingseniors] Fwd: How One Tax Ruling Will Cost India
More Than It Collects
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sirs
         pl refer to the article in swarajaya below...
i dont know to decipher /understand the implications to india by the court
ruling.
as long as there are no potential disadvantages to india in long term  we
should be happy
namaskaram

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*SELF KNOWLEDGE IS REAL KNOWLEDGE.*
*ALL OTHER KNOWLEDGE IS IGNORANCE AND THEY ARE NO  KNOWLEDGE  "   *
*~~~ Bhagavan Ramana*



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Subject: How One Tax Ruling Will Cost India More Than It Collects
To: <[email protected]>


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The recent Tiger Global related Supreme Court ruling will collect ₹14,500
crore for the exchequer, and the tax department is celebrating a landmark
victory against treaty shopping.

What nobody in Delhi seems to be calculating is the far larger number—the
investment that won’t come to India because of what this judgment signals
to every fund manager sitting in New York, London, and Singapore, quietly
recalculating whether India is worth the risk.

On January 15, the Supreme Court ruled that Tiger Global must pay tax on
its $1.6 billion gain from the Flipkart-Walmart deal, despite routing the
investment through Mauritius with a valid Tax Residency Certificate.

The court found that the Mauritius entities lacked commercial substance,
that real control resided with Charles Coleman in the United States,
and—most significantly—that the General Anti-Avoidance Rules can be applied
to any arrangement yielding tax benefits after April 2017, regardless of
when the original investment was made. Tiger Global invested between 2011
and 2015. GAAR came into effect in 2017. The grandfathering protection that
investors relied upon turned out to be worth less than the paper it was
written on.

..

The economic logic of why this matters runs deeper than one fund’s tax
bill. Global capital operates on a simple principle: it seeks the highest
post-tax risk-adjusted return available anywhere in the world.

When India imposes source-based taxation—taxing foreign investors at our
borders rather than letting their home countries tax them—it directly
reduces their post-tax returns from Indian investments. To compensate for
this tax cost, global investors demand a higher pre-tax return from Indian
assets, which translates directly into a higher cost of capital for Indian
companies and projects.

Economist Ajay Shah illustrates this with a stark example: an investment
project that makes financial sense at a 10% cost of capital becomes
unviable at 14%. That 4% gap represents the factory that doesn’t get built,
the jobs that don’t get created, and the salary increases that don’t
materialise because the labor market never tightened.

The Mauritius route existed precisely to solve this problem, allowing India
to offer de facto residence-based taxation while maintaining the political
fiction of taxing foreign capital. For three decades, this arrangement
worked—foreign ownership in Indian equities rose steadily from 8.38% in
2001 to a peak of 19.19% by 2016.

..

The data since 2016 tells the story of what happens when that arrangement
unravels.

Foreign direct investment from Mauritius collapsed from $15.72 billion in
2016-17 to just $6.13 billion in 2022-23, a decline of 61% that cannot be
explained by global investment trends alone. Mauritius’s share of foreign
portfolio investment assets fell even more dramatically, from 21% in 2015
to a mere 4.1% today. This capital didn’t evaporate—it migrated to
Singapore, Ireland, and increasingly back to the United States and Europe,
jurisdictions where investors don’t have to worry about tax treaties being
retroactively reinterpreted.

The Supreme Court’s reasoning creates a particularly corrosive form of
uncertainty because it explicitly rejects the finality of Tax Residency
Certificates.

The 2003 Azadi Bachao Andolan judgment had established that a valid TRC was
conclusive evidence of residency, and Indian tax authorities could not
“look behind” this document.

The Tiger Global bench acknowledged this precedent but held that “the legal
and economic landscape has transformed” through subsequent
amendments—effectively saying that what was legal and settled yesterday can
be reopened tomorrow if the government decides conditions have changed.

..

The Central Board of Direct Taxes has rushed to reassure investors that old
cases won’t be reopened, but this assurance exists purely at the level of
administrative discretion rather than legal protection.

The Supreme Court has handed the tax department a loaded weapon; whether
they choose to fire it is a political decision that can change with any new
government or revenue shortfall. Foreign investors understand this
distinction acutely, which is why “trust us” provides cold comfort when
calculating long-term investment risk.

India still needs foreign capital desperately—the infrastructure deficit,
manufacturing ambitions under Make in India, and job creation targets all
require investment that exceeds what domestic savings can provide. But
capital is both fungible and cowardly, flowing toward jurisdictions where
the rules of the game remain stable and away from those where courts can
retroactively redefine what was permissible.

The tax on the ₹14,500 case collected from Tiger Global will show up
proudly in this year’s revenue figures.

The lakhs of crores in investment that won’t come to India because of what
this ruling signals will never appear in any government ledger—just in the
jobs that don’t exist, the salaries that don’t rise, and the factories that
get built in Vietnam instead.
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