New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- Global consulting firm EY, formerly Ernst & Young, has taken its tax dispute over employees sent to India to the Supreme Court, challenging a Delhi High Court ruling of June 2026 that said payments made by EY's Indian entities to its US arm for such employees were taxable as fees for technical services, rather than simply reimbursement of salary costs.

According to the Supreme Court website, reviewed by Mint, EY filed its appeal on 15 September. The case has not yet been assigned to a bench for hearing.

The dispute covers assessment years 2018-19 to 2022-23 and centres on whether payments made by an Indian company to its overseas group company under a secondment arrangement, where employees are temporarily sent to...