Vodafone won a significant ruling against the Indian government in an international court over ₹ 20,000 crore in dues Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.
The Government raised a demand of Rs 7,990 crore in capital gains and withholding tax from Vodafone in 2007.
Vodafone challenged the demand notice in the Bombay High Court, which ruled in favour of the Income Tax Department.
Then, Vodafone challenged the judgment in the Supreme Court.
In 2012 the Supreme Court ruled that Vodafone Group’s interpretation of the Income Tax Act of 1961 is correct.
But, the same year, the government made an amendment to the Finance Act.
It was giving the Income Tax Department the power to retrospectively tax such deals.
This case had by then become infamous as the ‘retrospective taxation case’.