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DCIT Vs Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd (ITAT Kolkata)
The issue under consideration is whether the deletion of adjustment made u/s 92CA(3) of the Act on account of interest on loan and on account of corporate guarantees is justified in law?
ITAT states that, the TP Provisions do not apply to the transactions of providing corporate guarantee prior to the amendment brought in by way of an explanation to Section 92B of the Act, by Finance Act, 2012. Further at page 45 he held that the methodology applied by the TPO in computing the ALP of the transactions was without reasonable and justifiable basis. This understanding of ours gets further clarified by, way of insertion of Explanation in section 92B(1) by the Finance Act 2012 with retrospective effect from 01.04.2002 vide clause (a) to (d). ITAT find that in the said explanation, clause (e) alone has been carved out as an exception wherein, the transaction thereon has been specifically mandated to be an international transaction where a transaction of business restructuring or reorganization, entered into by an enterprise with an AE irrespective of the fact that it has bearing on the profits, incomes, losses, or assets of such enterprises at the time of transaction or at any future date.
Thus, ITAT hold that when a parent company extends an assistance to the subsidiary, being associated enterprise, such as corporate guarantee to a financial institution for lending money to the subsidiary, which does not cost anything to the parent company, and which does not have any bearing on its profits, income, losses or assets, it will be outside the ambit of international transaction under section 92B(1) of the Act In this regard, they would like to hold that issuance of corporate guarantee by the assessee to its AE would have ‘influence on the profits, incomes, losses or assets of enterprise’ but not necessarily have ‘any impact on the profits, incomes, losses or assets’ as admittedly no consideration was received by the assessee in respect of this corporate guarantee from its AE.Accordingly the appeal filed by the revenue is dismissed.
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