Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement
Also written BIPA · Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA)
A treaty that protects a foreign investor's financial interests in India against repatriation and arbitration risks and in the event of hostilities between the two countries, and generally provides investment incentives.
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- Determinate trustA trust whose beneficiaries and their beneficial interests are ascertainable from the trust deed throughout its life — the structure that lets a Category III AIF avoid MMR on non-business income.
- Double Taxation Avoidance AgreementA treaty between two or more countries that prevents the same income being fully taxed twice, either by allocating the taxing right or by the residence country giving credit for tax paid at source.
- General Anti-Avoidance RulesChapter X-A provisions of the Income-tax Act, applying to income arising on or after 1 April 2017, letting the tax authorities deny the benefit of an arrangement that lacks commercial substance and exists mainly for tax.
- Investment Management AgreementThe agreement between the trustee, acting for the AIF, and the investment manager, by which the trustee delegates its entire investment management power — and by which the manager can later be removed.
- Irrevocable trustA trust whose settlor cannot take the property back, which is why the workbook records that it is protected from the settlor's bankruptcy and usable to secure the interests of dependents.
Where this is taught
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