Case Law Details
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.
In such a case, the risk encountered by the assessee cannot be said to be the equivalent risks attached to the comparables. The risk attributed to the assessee by the TPO is an anticipated risk whereas the risk attributed by the assessee to the comparables is an existing risk. In such situation, the TPO ought to have given the risk adjustment to the net margin of the comparables for bringing them on par with the assessee company. The assessee’s contention that the risk adjustment should be at 5.5% or at the difference of prime lending rate of the RBI and the banks is not acceptable to us. Therefore, we direct the TPO to consider all the contentions of the assessee and after taking into account all the relevant material decide the percentage of risk adjustment to be made in accordance with law. This ground is accordingly, allowed for statistical purposes.
INCOME-TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL, BANGALORE
I.T.A. No. 1237(Bang.)/2010 – (Assessment year: 2006-07)
M/s Intellinet Technologies India Pvt.Ltd.
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