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Since in the financial statement for the relevant year (F.Y. 11-12), the auditor had made a clear disclosure that no revenue had been recognized on account of services rendered to SBI despite having incurred a cost of Rs. 3.2 crore and moreover, as per the matching ‘principl
The Indian Transfer Pricing Regulations (i.e. Section 92C of the Income-tax Act, 1961 read with Rule 10B of the Income-tax Rules, 1962) as well as the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines provide the following 5 common transfer pricing methods for evaluating the related party transactions undertaken between entities: 1. Comparable Uncontrolled Price (CUP) Method – The […]
Addition made on account of AMP expenses qualified as an ‘international transaction’ under the terms of section 92B(1) read with section 92F(v) was not justified as AMP Expenses did not qualify as an ‘international transaction’ for the purposes of section 92B firstly, there was no international transaction in the form of any agreement or arrangement on AMP expenditure incurred by assessee company; and secondly, under FAR analysis also, no such benefit from the AMP expenditure having any kind of bearing on the profits, income, losses or assets as accrued to the AE or any kind of benefit has arisen to the AE.
GOCL Corporation Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Hyderabad) Learned counsel’s first and foremost argument is that a corporate guarantee is a shareholder’s activity which has been wrongly treated as an international transaction u/s.92B read with Explanation inserted by the Finance Act, 2012 with retrospective effect from 01-04-2002. He next sought to draw a distinction between the […]
Sobha City Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) No addition for transfer pricing (TP) adjustment related to Specified Domestic Transactions (SDT). Conclusion: The reference to TPO for transfer pricing adjustment in respect of specified domestic transactions mentioned in clause (i) of section 92BA was not valid, as the said provision had been omitted. Accordingly, AO was directed […]
Greatship (India) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) The assessee has further assailed the disallowance worked out by the A.O under Sec. 1 4A r.w Rule 8D, on the ground that there was no recording of an objective satisfaction by the A.O that the suo-motto disallowance offered by the assessee under Sec. 14A was not correct. […]
The Ministry of Finance’s concerns regarding possible tax avoidance practices by manipulations in the prices charged or paid, in intra-group transactions, started increasing gradually with the increase in the economic activity reported by these Multi-National Companies. These concerns prompted the then Indian Government to eventually introduce the Transfer Pricing (TP) Regulations via The Finance Bill (2001).
The Transfer Pricing Officer has simply estimated the arm’s length price of the transaction on estimate basis without applying any one of the approved methods. This cannot be accepted.
Regarding transfer pricing, when it comes to analyzing comparables, the vast majority of analysts rely on the comparative evaluation of the returns of a controlled entity versus the returns of comparable entities. In this economic crisis caused by COVID, the above is a serious problem, which is worth taking into account, since if the performance […]
Zynga Game Network India Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) We note that Ld.AO/TPO has applied filter of more than Rs. 1 crore, but did not put an upper limit to the filter. This Tribunal in case of Genesis Integrating Systems India Pvt Ltd vs DCIT reported in (2012) 53 SOT 159 and various other […]
