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...
Transfer pricing provisions was incorporated in the Income Tax Act in April 2001 and now it has travel the journey of almost two decades in India. If we give one line principal to the transfer pricing provisions then it is benchmarking of international transactions entered with associated enterprises with comparables transactions (internal or external comparables) […]
Central Government Notifies Tolerance Band for Assessment Year 2021-22 in case of wholesale trading and others vide Notification No. 124/2021- Income Tax Dated: 29th October, 2021. MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) Notification No. 124/2021- Income Tax New Delhi, the 29th October, 2021 S.O. 4586(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by the third proviso to […]
Firemenich Aromatics Production (India) Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) We find that IS charges were paid by the assessee for obtaining access to ERP software and for regular recurrent services and such charges were paid in earlier years also. In AY 2012-13, similar adjustment proposed by Ld. TPO was deleted by coordinate bench on […]
OECD published a report on the issue of ‘Base Erosion & Profit Shifting’, in which they set out 15 BEPS action plans to tackle the issue of base erosion and profit shifting. Since then OECD and G20 have continued to work on BEPS action through inclusive framework.
What is Transfer Pricing? Transfer pricing is an accounting practice followed to establish an agreed price at Arm’s length during a transaction between associated enterprises. The transactions can be in terms of goods and services. There are five methods which can be used to get to the agreed price where the profits are divided fairly […]
Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd. Vs Additional CIT National E-Assessment Centre (ITAT Delhi) From the report of the Assessing Officer as well as the clarification given by the ld. counsel it is seen that there are a huge refunds which are due to the assessee and as per the report of the Assessing Officer, substantial […]
JCIT Vs Amway India Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) A comparable should not be rejected simply on the ground that is margin is extremely high (or low) in relative comparison to the data pertaining to its peers. It is specifically observed by the CIT(A) that the rejection of the two comparables by the TPO, are […]
Implementation plan for the two-pillar solution to address tax challenges of a digital economy Background In my earlier article dated July 19, 2021, I have given a brief overview of the Statement on a two‑pillar solution to address the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy (the Statement) that was agreed by 130 […]
Galax E Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) ITAT held that companies having turnover more than 200 crores upto 500 crores has to be regarded as one category and those companies cannot be regarded as comparables with companies having turnover of less than 200 crores. FULL TEXT OF THE ORDER OF ITAT BANGALORE […]
Biesse Manufacturing Company Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) We have noticed that the turnover of the assessee company for software development segment was Rs. 4.56 crores and hence the assessee company falls in the category of companies having turnover of Rs. 1 to 200 crores. The coordinate bench in the case of Autodesk India […]
