Income Tax : This article explains how Safe Harbour Rules under the Income-tax Act, 2025 interact with APAs, MAP provisions, and transfer prici...
Income Tax : The framework outlines mandatory disclosures and timelines for opting into safe harbour. Key takeaway: strict compliance is essent...
Income Tax : The article explains how safe harbour rules simplify transfer pricing compliance. It highlights that eligible transactions are acc...
Income Tax : The update outlines revised compliance forms, timelines, and penalties under the new rules. It highlights a structured transition ...
Corporate Law : The issue was identifying the correct transfer pricing method for intercompany transactions. The conclusion holds that TNMM is app...
Income Tax : CBDT signed a record number of APAs to provide clarity on transfer pricing and reduce disputes. The framework ensures advance dete...
CA, CS, CMA : KSCAA urged CBDT to extend due dates for assessees under Section 92E, citing an omission in Circular No. 15/2025 that created inco...
CA, CS, CMA : Chartered Accountants Association, Ahmedabad requests extension of ITR and audit due dates for AY 2025-26 citing compressed timeli...
Income Tax : CBDT sets transfer pricing tolerance range at 1% for wholesale trading and 3% for other transactions for AY 2024-25, providing cla...
Income Tax : From April 2025, TPOs can determine ALP for SDTs not initially referred or reported. This ensures accurate adjustments and complia...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai deleted the transfer pricing adjustment on management fees after finding that identical issues in the assessee’s own...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that transfer pricing adjustment was not justified where the foreign LLC’s income was already offered to tax in In...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that transfer pricing authorities cannot assign a NIL arm’s length price when the assessee has demonstrated ...
Income Tax : The Hyderabad ITAT found contradictions in the TPO’s reasoning for excluding a comparable company due to alleged lack of RPT dat...
Income Tax : Pune ITAT held that once TNMM is accepted for a taxpayer’s aggregated international transactions, the TPO cannot isolate a singl...
Income Tax : Notification 157/2025 sets 1% tolerance for wholesale trading and 3% for all other cases for Arm's Length Price variation for AY 2...
Income Tax : CBDT notifies Income Tax (Sixth Amendment) Rules, 2025, introducing safe harbour rules for assessment year 2025-26. Full details o...
Income Tax : CBDT sets 1% tolerance for wholesale trading and 3% for other cases under Section 92C for FY 2024-25. No adverse effects from retr...
Income Tax : Stay informed on the latest Income Tax Rule changes with Notification No. 104/2023 by the Ministry of Finance. Learn about amendme...
Income Tax : Read how CBDT's Notification No. 58/2023 amends Income-tax Rules, extending Safe Harbour rules to AY 2023-24. Insights from Minist...
ITAT Mumbai held that the Indian Subsidiary operating in an independent manner doesn’t constitute as a “Permanent Establishment” in India and hence income of the assessee is not allowable to be taxed in India.
Read how ITAT Delhi deleted ALP adjustment in STEAG Energy Services vs. ACIT case, as it falls within tolerance band of +/- 5% under Section 92C(2) of Income Tax Act.
ITAT Delhi deleted TP adjustment on payment of model fee for export to AEs stating that scope of TPO is limited to determination of arm’s length price and TPO cannot adjudge commercial expediency of a transaction.
Finance Act, 2017 removed clause (i) of section 92BA, effectively nullifying any decisions made by the Assessing Officer under this section. Reference to the TPO under section 92CA also becomes invalid
ITAT Mumbai held that addition towards lower commission charged by Jetair Pvt. Ltd. to Jet Airways (India) Ltd. on account of Online Reservation Commission by applying arm’s length price not sustained as the transaction was neither international transaction nor a specified domestic transaction and hence transfer pricing provisions doesn’t apply.
Bombay High Court held that the transaction of payment of royalty for use of technology is inextricably linked with manufacturing activity and should be aggregated with other international transactions in the manufacturing segment for the purposes of benchmarking the same
ITAT Hyderabad held that Transactional Net Margin Method (TNMM) was the most appropriate method in the absence of a Comparable Uncontrolled Price (CUP) which is applicable to the payment of technical service fee which is in nature of intangibles.
ITAT Mumbai held that as per section 92CA(3) TPO order should be passed before 60 days prior to the date prescribed u/s 153 of the Act. Accordingly, in present case, TPO order passed on 30/01/2015 instead of 29/01/2015 is non-est and liable to be quashed as being barred by limitation.
Read how CBDT’s Notification No. 58/2023 amends Income-tax Rules, extending Safe Harbour rules to AY 2023-24. Insights from Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
Read the full text of the Delhi High Court judgment in the CIT vs. Sumitomo Corporation India Pvt Ltd case, concerning Assessment Years 2012-13 and 2013-14. TNMM found suitable for determining ALP for international indenting-transactions.