No notice on tax before making payment to Hutchison: Vodafone

Vodafone has rejected as "completely untrue" the Indian government's assertion that the UK based mobile group was notified it would have to pay withholding tax before the making the payment to Hutchison in 2007. Vodafone which had bought Hutcison's India assets in 2007 for $11 billion said in a statement on Tuesday that 'at no point before the transaction concluded and the payment was made did any entity of the Vodafone Group receive any communication at any of its business addresses from the Indian Tax Authorities requesting a payment of withholding tax'.

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