Vod afone this week won a positive ruling in the latest of its various tax disputes in India.
The Bombay High Court ruled in favour of the mobile operator, which had appealed an attempt by the government to add 85 billion rupees (€1.2 billion) to its Indian unit’s tax bill, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The telco welcomed the news but did not provide further comment, the newswire said.
Vodafone has had a litany of tax battles with the Indian government since it entered the market with the acquisition of the company then known as Hutchison Essar in early 2007.
According to Reuters, Vodafone has yet to reach resolution with the authorities regarding a capital gains tax claim linked to that deal.
However, almost exactly a year ago it won a separate tax victory, when the Bombay High Court ruled in its favour in a case that centred on a INR32 billion tax bill faced by Vodafone India Services. That case was linked to the issue of transfer pricing, whereby companies set the fees that divisions within the same company, or subsidiaries owned by the same parent, charge one another for goods and services.
