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Recent Indian tax developments in India may push some investors to shelve traditional strategies and consider other alternative locations such as Singapore for holding Indian investments. Ong Sim Ho and Chow Hoe Keong of Drew & Napier discuss that tax treaty abuses and legislative changes have caused reactive changes to the status quo, and these developments will eventually reshape existing investment strategies into India.

Nikhil Mehta of Amarchand & Mangaldas and Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers investigates what the impact of the Vodafone decision will be and whether similar cases will be a thing of the past once the DTC is implemented.

Gary Gowrea and Aveenash Ramtohul of Cim Tax Services – Taxand, describe how taxpayers looking to invest in India should consider Mauritius as a stepping stone into the rapidly growing economy.

Tax reforms are engulfing the way business is done in India. Sunil Jain of J Sagar & Associates discusses the impact the country’s proposed general anti-avoidance rules will have on companies planning transactions between now and the introduction of the rules in April 2012.

With many Indian taxpayers citing transfer pricing as their biggest concern, there has never been a more crucial time to have access to the best thinkers in this area of tax. As a result, India Quarterly asked the Indian tax community to vote for the country’s top 10 transfer pricing advisers.

India is well known around the world for the amount of tax litigation that goes through its courts and tribunals, and the aggression of its revenue authority. Transfer pricing disputes have been in the limelight recently and there have been a high number of interesting precedents set. Sophie Ashley analyses the implications of some of the more interesting cases and considers an alternative to the dispute resolution panel.

As Latin American countries are working hard to have themselves removed from unfavourable black and grey lists of low tax jurisdictions, Elizabeth Bearese finds out why more have not entered into tax treaties with India.

Indian courts have struggled with how to characterise income generated from computer software. For multinational corporations doing business in India, the uncertainty causes trepidation and concern. Erin Kelechava asks tax professionals whether the unsettled state of the law is keeping US companies out of the Indian market.

Japan will reduce its corporate tax rate by five percentage points to 35% in April, in an effort to boost the country's ailing economy.

The Australian government announced it has addressed investment uncertainty for US-based fund managers by dealing with the FIN 48 issue.