Period of license cannot be considered on the issue of capitalisation of software expenses: ITAT

Hewlett-Packard (India) Software Operation Pvt. Ltd Vs JCIT (ITAT Bangalore) Conclusion: The ITAT in the case of Transfer Pricing observed that the exclusion and inclusion of comparable companies could be determined on basis of the Judgments of Yahoo Software Development (India) Pvt. Ltd. (2020) 115 taxmann.com 60 (Bang Trib) and Goldman Sachs Services Pvt. Ltd. (IT(TP)A No. 2355/Bang/2019. Also while dealing with the issue of capitalisation of software expenses it was held that “period of license” cannot be considered but the kind of software “system software or application software” ...