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India notifies digital tax threshold of Rs 2 crore and 300,000 users

This is part of the Significant Economic Presence (SEP) principle, which was introduced in the Finance Bill 2018-19

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In order to tax Facebook, Google and the like, India will require to renegotiate the tax treaty with the US

Dilasha Seth New Delhi
India on Monday notified a revenue threshold of Rs 2 crore and a limit of 300,000 users for non-resident technology firms such as Google, Facebook, Netflix, to pay tax in India under new or revised bilateral tax pacts.  

This is part of the Significant Economic Presence (SEP) principle, which was introduced in the Finance Bill 2018-19, and which widened the scope of ‘business connection’ to include provision of download of data or software, if aggregate payments from such transactions exceed a prescribed amount, or if a multinational's interaction is with a prescribed number of users.

“…the amount of aggregate of