Notification No. 25/2011

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MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue) |
NOTIFICATION
| New Delhi, the 13thMay,2011- oe |
INCOME‘TA X)> ; ;
S.0. 1049(E).— Whereas, an Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Commonweal b/of The Bahamas for the Exchange of Information with respect to taxes was signed at Nassdu, Bahamas on. the 11" day of February, 2011 |
(hereinafter referred to as the said Ag {ment
And whereas, the dateOf entry into force of the said Agreement is the 1% day of
March, 2011, being the date of later of the notifications of completion of the procedures as required by the respective laws for entry into force of the said Agreement, in accordance with .
paragraph 2 of article 13 of the said Agreement;
And whereas, paragraph 2 of article 13 of the said Agreement provides that the provisions of the said Agreement shall have effect-with respect to all matters described in article 1, for all taxable periods beginning on or after the date of signing of the Agreement or, where there is no taxable period, for all charges to tax arising on or after the date of signing of the Agreement;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 90 of the Income-tax
Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby directs that all the provisions of the
Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the
Commonwealth of the Bahamas for the exchange of information with respect to taxes, as set out in the Annexure hereto, shall be given effect to in the Union of India with respect to all matters described in article 1, for all taxable periods beginning on or after the date of signing of the Agreement (i.e the 11" day of February, 2011) or, where there is no taxable period, for all charges to tax arising on or after the date of signing of the Agreement. | .
[Notification No. 25/201 1/F. No. 503/6/2009-FTD-1]
SANJAY KUMAR MISHRA, It. Secy.

16 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [Part I—Sec. 3(ii)]
AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA
AND |
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS
FOR
oo THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
WITH RESPECT TO TAXES |
The Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, desiring to facilitate the exchange of information with respect to taxes, have agreed as follows: |
| Article 1 : |
Object and Scope of the Agreement .
The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties shall provide assistance through exchange of information that is foreseeably relevant to the administration and enforcement of the domestic laws of the Contracting Parties concerning taxes
‘covered by this Agreement. Such information shall include information that is foreseeably relevant to the determination, assessment and collection of such taxes, the recovery and enforcement of tax claims, or the investigation or prosecution of tax
. matters. Information shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement, and shall be treated as confidential in the manner provided in Article 8.
The rights and safequards secured to persons by the laws or administrative practice of the requested Party remain applicable to the extent that they do not unduly prevent or delay effective exchange of information.
. Article 2 |
. Jurisdiction
Information shall be exchanged in accordance with this Agreement without regard to whether the person to whom the information relates is, or whether the information is held by, a resident of a Contracting Party. However, a requested Party is not obliged
. -to provide information which is neither held by its authorities nor is in the possession
_ of Control of persons who are within its territorial jurisdiction.
| Article 3 7 |
‘ Taxes Covered
- 1. The taxes which are the subject of this Agreement are: 7
. @) in india, taxes of every kind and description imposed by the Central
Government or the Governments of political subdivisions or local authorities,
._~ irrespective of the manner in which they are levied:

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pinecone en ee b) in The Bahamas, taxes of every kind and description. oe
2. This Agreement shall also apply to any identical or substantially similar taxes imposet after the date of signature of this Agreement in addition to, or in place of, the existing taxes. The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties shall notify each other of any substantial changes to the taxation and related information gathering measures, which may affect the obligations of that Party pursuant to this
Agreement, within a reasonable time. |
| Article4
Definitions
1. For the purposes of this Agreement, unless otherwise defined:
a) the term “India” means the territory of India and includes the territorial sea and airspace above it, as well as any other maritime zone in which India has sovereign rights, other rights and jurisdiction, according to the Indian law and in
. accordance with international law, including the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea; — a b) the term “The Bahamas” means the Commonwealth of The Bahamas encompassing the tand,. the territorial waters, and in accordance with international law and the laws of The Bahamas any area outside the territorial waters inclusive of the exclusive economic-zone and the seabed and subsoil —
over which The Bahamas exercises jurisdiction and sovereign rights for the purpose of exploration, exploitation and conservation of natural resources; c) the term “Contracting Party” means India or The Bahamas as the context requires; .
_d) the term “competent authority” means | |
_(i) in the case of India, the Finance Minister, Government of India, or its : |
authorized representative; :
(ii) in the case of The Bahamas, the Minister of Finance or the Minister's authorized representative; .
e) the term “person” includes an individual, a company, a body of persons and any other entity which is treated as a taxable unit under the taxation laws in
- force in the respective Contracting Parties; . . . ; ;
_ f} the term “company” means any. body corporate or any entity that is treated as .
a body corporate for tax purposes; . oo, ; g) the term “publicly traded company” means any company whose principal class of shares is listed on a recognised stock exchange provided its listed shares can be readily purchased or sold by the public. Shares can be purchased .
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or sold “by the public” if the purchase or sale of shares is not implicitly or explicitly restricted to a limited group of investors;

h) the ‘term “principal class of shares” means the class or classes of shares representing a majority of the voting power and value of the company; i) the term “collective investment fund or scheme” means any pooled investment
; | vehicle, irrespective of legal form; ; j) the term “public collective investment fund or scheme” means any collective investment fund or scheme provided the units, shares or other interests in the fund or scheme can be readily purchased, sold or redeemed by the public.
Units, shares or other interests in the fund or scheme can be readily purchased, sold or redeemed “by the public” if the purchase, sale or redemption is not
‘implicitly or explicitly restricted to a limited group of investors;

k) the term “recognised stock exchange” means .

(i) in India, the National Stock Exchange, the Bombay Stock Exchange,

. and any other stock exchange recognised by the Securities and Exchange
_ Board of India; . .

. (ii) in The Bahamas, the Bahamas International Securities Exchange; and (iii) any other stock exchange which the competent authorities agree to
. recognise for the purposes of this Agreement; a
_ 1) the term “tax” means any tax to which this Agreement applies; .
. m) the term “requesting Party” means the Contracting Party submitting a request for information to, or having received information from, the requested Party;
' n)-the term “requested Party” means the Contracting Party which is requested to
. provide information or which has provided information;
0) the term “information gathering measures" means laws and administrative or judicial procedures that enable a Contracting Party to obtain and provide the.
requested information; and p) the term “information” means. any fact, statement, document or record in whatever form... —. . i
2. As regards the application of this Agreement at any time by a Contracting Party, any term not defined herein shall, unless. the context otherwise requires or the competent authorities agree to a common meaning pursuant.to the provisions of
Article 12 of this Agreement, have the meaning that it has at that time under the law -
_ of that Party, any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that Party prevailing over
@ meaning given to the term under other laws of that Party.

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. Exchange of Information upon Request —
1. The competent authority of the requested Party shall provide upon request .
information for the purposes referred to in Article 1. Such information shall be exchanged without regard to whether the requested Party needs such information for
‘its own tax purposes or whether the conduct being investigated.would constitute a crime under the laws of the requested Party if such conduct occurred in the requested Party. —
2. If the information in the possession of the competent authority of the requested —
Party is not sufficient to enable it to comply with the request for information, that
-. Party shall use ail relevant information gathering measures to provide the requesting
Party with the information requested, notwithstanding that the requested Party may not need such information for its own tax purposes. .
3. If specifically requested by the competent authority of the requesting Party, the |
competent authority of the requested Party shall provide information under this
Article, to the extent allowable under its domestic laws, in the form of depositions of witnesses and authenticated copies of original records.
4. Each Contracting Party shall ensure that its competent authority, for the purposes of this Agreement, has the authority to obtain and provide upon request:
a) information held by banks, other financial institutions, and any person, including nominees. and trustees, acting in an agency or fiduciary capacity; |
7 b) information regarding the legal and beneficial ownership of companies, partnerships, collective investment funds-or schemes, trusts, foundations,
“Anstalten” and other persons, including, within the constraints of Article 2, \
ownership information on all such persons in an ownership chain; in the case of collective investment funds or schemes, information on shares, units and other interests; in the case of trusts, information on settlors, trustees and :
beneficiaries; in the case of foundations, information on founders, members of :
the foundation council and beneficiaries; and equivalent information in the case
‘of entities that are neither trusts nor foundations. ; ;
5. This Agreement does not create an obligation on the Contracting Parties to obtain or provide ownership information with respect to publicly traded companies or public |
collective investment funds or schemes unless such information can be obtained without giving rise-to disproportionate difficulties. .
6. The competent authority of the requesting Party shall provide the following information, in writing, to the. competent authority of the requested Party when _
making a request for information under the Agreement to demonstrate the
_ foreseeable relevance of the information to the request:
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__b) if known, the identity of the person in respect of which-information is requested, if that person is not the taxpayer in subparagraph (a); c) the period for which information is requested; |
_ d) the nature of the information requested and the form in which the requesting
Party would prefer to receive it; e) the tax purpose for which the information is sought; , f) grounds for believing that the information requested is present in the requested Party or is in the possession or control of a person within the jurisdiction of the requested Party; g) to the extent known, the name and address of any person believed to be in
_ possession or control of the requested information; h) the legal provision under which the examination, assessment or investigation is carried out, and a statement that the request is in conformity with the laws and administrative practices of the requesting Party, that if the requested information was within the jurisdiction of the requesting Party then the competent authority of the requesting Party would be able to obtain the information under the laws of the requesting Party or in the normal course of administrative practice and that it is in conformity with this Agreement; and i) a statement that the requesting Party has pursued. all means available in its
‘own territory to obtain the information, except those that would give rise to disproportionate difficulties.
7. The competent authority of the requested Party shall forward the requested information as promptly as possible to the requesting Party. To ensure a prompt response, the competent authority of the requested Party shall:
a) Confirm receipt of a request in writing to the competent authority of the requesting Party and shall notify the competent authority of the requesting Party of deficiencies in the request, if any, within 60 days of the receipt of the request.
~_b) If the competent authority of the requested Party has been unable to obtain and provide the information within 90 days of receipt of the request, including if it
* encounters obstacles in furnishing the information or it refuses to furnish the information, it shall immediately inform the requesting Party, explaining the .
reason for its inability, the nature of the obstacles or the reasons for its refusal.
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' Tax Examinations Abroad .
1. At the requést if the competent authority of the requesting Party, the requested
Party may allow representatives of the competent authority of the requesting Party to _
_ enter the territory wf the requested Party, to the extent permitted under its domestic

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the individuals or other persons concerned. The competent authority of the
* requesting Party shall notify the competent authority of the requested Party of the time and place of the intended meeting with the individuals concerned.
2. At the request of the competent authority of the requesting Party, the requested
Party may allow representatives of the competent authority of the requesting Party to be present at the appropriate part of a tax examination in the requested Party, in which case the competent authority of the requested Party conducting the examination shall, as soon as possible, notify the competent authority of the requesting Party about the time and place of the examination, the authority or official
' designated to carry out the examination and the procedures and conditions required by the requested Party for the conduct of the examination. All decisions with respect
~ to the conduct of the. tax examination shall be made by the Party conducting the examination.
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Possibility of Declining a Request for information
4. The competent authority of the requested Party may decline to assist:
a) where the request is not made in conformity with this Agreement; 7
b) where the requesting Party has not pursued all means available in its own -
territory to obtain the information, except wriere recourse to such means would give rise to disproportionate difficulty; or c) where disclosure of the information would be contrary to public policy (ordre public) of the requested Party. .
2. This Agreement shall not impose on a Contracting Party the obligation:
a) to supply information which would disclose any trade, business, industrial, —
commercial or professional secret or trade process, provided that information .
described in paragraph 4 of Article 5 shall not be treated as such a secret or trade process merely because it meets the criteria in that paragraph;
~ b) to carry out administrative measures at variance with its laws and administrative practices, provided nothing in this subparagraph shall affect the obligations of a Contracting Party under paragraph 4 of Article 5; or
Cc) to obtain or provide information which would reveal confidential ,
‘ communications between a client (or his admitted legal representative) anda professional legal advisor where such communications are: co (i) produced for the purposes of seeking or providing legal advice; or (ii) produced for the purposes of use in existing or contemplated legal proceedings.
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Information held with the intention of furthering a criminal purpose is not subject

to legal privilege, and nothing in this Article shall prevent a professional legal

advisor from providing the name and address of a client where doing so would

not constitute a breach of legal privilege.
3. A request for information shall not be refused on the ground that the tax claim giving rise to the request is disputed.
4. The requested Party shall not be required to obtain and provide information which the requesting Party would be unable to obtain in similar circumstances under its own laws for the purpose of the administration or enforcement of its own tax laws or in response to a valid request from the requested Party under this Agreement.
5. The Contracting Parties agree that, if an information request under the Agreement is believed to be deficient in some respect, while other parts of the request meet the requirements of the Agreement, the competent authority of the requested Party will provide the information that is responsive to that part of the request that meets the requirements of the Agreement.
6. The requested Party may decline a request for information if the information is requested by the applicant Party to administer or enforce a provision of the tax law of the applicant Party, or any requirement connected therewith, which discriminates

against a national of the requested Party as compared with a national of the applicant Party in the same circumstances.
Article 8 .
Confidentiality
Any information received by a Contracting Party under this Agreement shall be treated as confidential and may be disclosed only to persons or authorities (including courts and administrative bodies) in the jurisdiction of the Contracting Party .
concerned with the assessment or collection of, the énforcement or prosecution in respect of, or the determination of appeals in relation to, the taxes covered by this
Agreement. Such persons or authorities shall use such information only for such .
purposes. They may disclose the information in public court proceedings or in judicial decisions. The information may not be disclosed to any other person or entity or authority or any other jurisdiction (including a foreign Government) without the _
express written consent of the competent authority of the requested Party. .
Article 9
. Costs
, 1. Costs that would be incurred in the ordinary course of administering the domestic

tax laws of the requested Party will be borne by the requested Party when such costs are incurred for the purpose of responding to a request for information. Such
Ordinary costs would normally cover internal administration costs and any minor |
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“2. All other costs that are not ordinary costs are considered extraordinary costs and

- --wittbe borne by the requesting party. Examples of extraordinary costs include, but are not limited to, the following: | .
- a) reasonable fees charged by third parties for carrying out research; b) reasonable fees charged by third parties for copying documents; c) reasonable costs of engaging experts; .
__ d) reasonable costs of conveying documents to the requesting Party;
- @) reasonable litigation costs of the requested party in relation to a specific request for information; and '
f) reasonable costs for obtaining depositions or testimony.
3. The Contracting Parties will consult each other in any particular case where extraordinary costs are likely to exceed $US500 to determine whether the requesting
Party will continue to pursue the request and bear the cost.
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~ Implementation Legislation ‘.
The Contracting Parties shall enact any legislation necessary to comply with, and give effect to, the terms of the Agreement.
Article 14. . |
Language.
Requests for assistance and answers thereto shall be drawn up in English. .
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| Mutual Agreement Procedure oe
1. Where difficulties or doubts arise between the Contracting Parties regarding the implementation or interpretation of the Agreement, the competent authorities shall endeavour to resolve the matter by mutual agreement. In addition, the competent authorities of the Contracting Parties may mutually agree on the procedures to be used under Articles 5 and 6 of this Agreement.
2. The competent authorities of the Contracting Parties may communicate with each other directly for purposes of reaching agreement under this Article.
3. The Contracting Parties may also agree on other forms of dispute resolution.

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| Article 13
Entry into Force
<4. The Contracting Parties shall notify each other in writing, through diplomatic —
© channels, of the completion of the procedures required by their respective laws for the entry into force of this Agreement.
2. This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of the later of the notifications referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and shall thereupon have effect with respect to all matters described in Article 1, for all taxable periods beginning on or after the date of signing of the Agreement or, where there is no taxable period, for all charges ~
to tax arising on or after the date of signing of the Agreement.
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Termination
1. This Agreement shail remain in force until terminated by either Contracting Party.
2. Either Contracting Party may, after the expiry of three years from the date of its entry into force, terminate the Agreement by serving a written notice of termination to the other Contracting Party through diplomatic channels.
3. Such termination shall become effective on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of six months after the date of receipt of notice of termination by the other Contracting Party. All requests received up to the effective date of termination shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement.
_ 4. if the Agreement is terminated, the’ Contracting Parties shall remain bound by the provisions of Article 8 with respect to any information obtained under the Agreement. —
In witness whereof, the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed this
Agreement.
DONE in duplicate at Nassau on this Eleventh day of February 2011, in the Hindi and English languages, both texts being equally authentic. In case of divergence of interpretation, the English text shall prevail. .
For the Government of the For the Government of the
Republic of India: . Commonwealth of The Bahamas:
Sd/ | a Sd/
(His Excellency Mohinder S. Grover) (Hon. Zhivargo Laing, MP)
High Commissioner of India to Jamaica Minister of State for Finance for the and concurrently accredited to the . Government of the Commonwealth
Commonweaith of The Bahamas of The Bahamas
_ ‘Printed by the Manager, Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-l10064.~~SOSCSC~CS~S~S
and Published by the Controller of Publications, Dethi-110054.