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RPT-India tax dept issues tax claim notice to Vodafone

Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:05am EDT

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NEW DELHI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - India's tax department said on Friday it had issued a show-cause notice to Vodafone (VOD.L) for default of non-deduction of tax related to its $11.2 billion stake purchase of Hutchison Telecom's (2332.HK) Indian operations in 2007.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes, part of the finance ministry, said in a statement Vodafone had to comply with the notice by Nov 16. (Reporting by Rajkumar Ray and Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by John Mair)



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