India Notifies MoU with Japan for Double Tax Avoidance Agreement:

India has activated its MoU with Japan to enable mutual assistance in tax recovery, effective July 8, 2025.

India and Japan Activate Mutual Tax Recovery Framework

Vanshika verma

Apr 6, 2026

Last update on Apr 6, 2026

India Notifies MoU with Japan for Double Tax Avoidance Agreement The Ministry of Finance recently issued a notification (No. 56/2026) on April 2, 2026, under Section 90 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, to formally implement the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in India. The Governments of India and Japan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to help each other in collecting taxes under their existing tax treaty. Japan signed it on June 30, 2025, in Tokyo, and India signed it later on July 8, 2025, in New Delhi. The MoU states that it will apply to any request for tax collection made after both countries have signed it. Since India signed it later, the agreement officially came into force in India on July 8, 2025. Therefore, from July 8, 2025, onwards, India will apply the provisions of this MoU to all relevant tax collection requests.

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