Contract manufacturer Flex has moved the Supreme Court seeking to quash a Tax Tribunal ruling in Xiaomi’s royalty tax dispute. Xiaomi faces a 72 million dollar alleged unpaid tax demand, challenging it in a case crucial to India’s contract manufacturing framework.
The Karnataka High Court ruled in Huawei Technologies India Private Limited vs. State of Karnataka that salaries paid to expatriate employees are not liable to IGST under reverse charge when a genuine employer-employee relationship exists, rejecting the revenue’s manpower supply service classification claim.