After going through the above provisions of law, it is clear that the Act has not provided for any cut off date up-to which only the information available in public domain has to be taken into consideration by the TPO, while making the transfer pricing adjustments and arriving at arm’s length price. The assessee as well as the Revenue is both bound by the Act and the rules there-under and, therefore, as provided under the Act and rules, they are supposed to be taking into consideration, the contemporaneous data relevant to the previous year in which the transaction has taken place.
This finding of the Tribunal in the case of Jaswant Singh (supra), clearly upholds the view that the provisions of section 57 do not provide for any deduction of expenditure from such salary income, etc. of an MLA. Only those exemptions as laid out as per the provisions of section 10(14), read with rule 2BB(1) and section 10(17) are allowable from an MLA’s salary and other allowances granted in such capacity. Thus, the Commissioner (Appeals)’s action in rejecting the assessee’s claim for allowing deduction of expenditure under section 57 has to be upheld.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. V. DDIT The main grievance of the assessee in this appeal relates to the action of the ld. CIT (Appeals) in confirming the view expressed by the Assessing Officer in holding that the payment of USD 21,270 payable to CEVA DSP Limited, Israel, for purchase of software was in the nature of royalty and the assessee was required to deduct tax at source and pay the same to the Government.
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Assessee, on partition of the joint family, had received the balance capital of the family in the real estate business comprising various assets, which were in the nature of stock-in-trade and it cannot be considered that the various assets or properties received by the assessee on partition are capital assets and these capital assets were converted into stock-in-trade of the real estate when the assessee continued to carry on the business of the erstwhile joint family.
Assessee had acquired the business and also earned income out of the said transaction by cost plus basis. Thus, it can be seen that the assessee has not encountered the risk of having a single customer, whereas the same cannot be said as regards the comparables. As pointed out by the learned counsel for the assessee, the comparables were dealing in open market and therefore, they were prone to the marketing and technical risks. They would have incurred certain expenditure on marketing services and also to safeguard the technical use by them.
Indian Company exercising control and supervision over a seconded employee and bearing the salary cost should be considered as an economic employer and not liable to withhold tax under Section 195 of the Act on the reimbursement of the salary to the foreign company on which tax has been withheld under Section 1923 of the Act. Further the Tribunal held that the payment to IDS USA did not represent ‘Fees for Technical Services’
he amendment to s. 40(a)(ia) by the Finance Act, 2010 has been specifically made retrospectively applicable from the asst. yr. 2010-11. It has nowhere been expressly set out that the amendment is curative or merely declaratory of the previous law. The intention of the legislature as gathered from the Notes on Clauses and the Memorandum Explaining the Provisions of the Finance Bill does not particularly indicate any relaxation in the provision retrospectively from asst. yr. 2005-06 by providing that the expenditure on which due tax was deducted upto February, 2005 but paid before the due date specified in s. 139(1) shall not suffer any disallowance in the asst. yr. 2005-06.
Section 115A; vs DTAA rate; Assessee can choose between treaty rate and 115A for different agreements before and after 1.6.2005. Assessee has not invoked or applied the provisions of the Treaty selectively. The assessee has computed the tax on royalty income arising from two different contracts falling under two different limbs of section 115A(1)(b) at two rates
In the case before us, the assessee was liable to pay labour charges to various parties and made the payment without deducting tax at source. However, at the end of the financial year, the assessee has made a provision for tax deductible at source and has remitted to the Government account before the due date of filing of return u/s 139(1) of the IT Act.
