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 : The Tribunal held that the Indian entity was only a distributor and not a technology or content owner. It rejected the Revenue’s...
Income Tax : This explains the new block assessment mechanism allowing ALP to apply across multiple years. It emphasizes reduced disputes and s...
Income Tax : The issue concerns replacement of Form 3CEB with a new reporting framework. The reform mandates structured reporting with enhanced...
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 : The issue was whether high-turnover companies can be compared with a smaller software service provider. The Tribunal held that com...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that transfer pricing adjustment cannot survive without a final assessment order post-DRP directions. Repeating ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that subscription to preference shares cannot be re-characterized as loans in absence of evidence showing sham t...
Income Tax : The tribunal held that the safe harbour limit applies to valuation determined by the DVO, not just stamp duty value. It ruled in f...
Income Tax : The Court held that Tribunal remand is not a fresh reference under transfer pricing law. Hence, limitation expired earlier, entitl...
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...
The APA determines the transfer pricing methodology for pricing an enterprises’ future international transactions or certain specified domestic transactions.
The last few decades have witnessed significant globalization, which has led to the drastic growth of international transactions between parties situated in different nations. However, with this vast geographical network of transactions, comes the problem of keeping up with the different tax rates at which different countries operate.
Multinational entities (MNEs) have actively contributed to the global value chain. These MNEs that have established affiliates or subsidiary companies transacting cross-borders and have always been a matter of discourse. Such related party transactions if ungoverned, tend to create a hassle for their respective jurisdictions in allocating taxing rights and could lead to an administrative tax tangle.
It is highly essential for multinational enterprises to come up with different workable business strategies to compete in today’s economy. One such strategy is business restructuring. Business restructuring is an activity wherein companies significantly modify their financial and operational aspects of a company.
Arbitration and specifically Last Best Offer Arbitration, has historically been used to resolve disputes between unions and management and is best known for resolving compensation disputes between Major League Baseball teams and their players, hence the name Baseball Arbitration.
Transfer pricing transaction in a MNE is done to reduce tax burden and improve profits of the enterprise. It is usually done by utilizing the complex economic to their advantage globally. A MNE would transfer its profits form high tax jurisdiction to associated enterprise in a low tax jurisdiction.
CBDT) has issued the final rules pertaining to Master File (MF) and Country by Country reporting (CbCR) on 31st October 2017. This is an outcome of the OECD/G20 BEPS Action Plan 13. India has been an active participant of the OECD BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) project.
Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) We find that the assessee has not demonstrated any benefit derived from its associated enterprises namely Lambda USA whereas it has advanced interest free loan of EURO 49,999/-. Thus, the question arises whether there is a need to make any adjustment on account of notional interest under […]
ALP of corporate guarantee has to be determined as it falls within scope and ambit of an international transaction after retrospective amendment to section 92B and 0.5% corporate guarantee is held to be appropriate.
DCIT Vs Saint Gobain India Private Limited (Madras High Court) In the present cases, the Financial Year is 2015-16 and the assessment year is 2016-17. The period of 21 months would commence on 31.03.2017, the assessment year ended on 31.12.2018 normally and the extended period would end on 31.12.2019 and not on 01.01.2020. The contention […]
