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 Delhi held that television channel and content owner companies could not be compared with a content distribution business. Th...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that distribution fees paid to associated enterprises could not be treated as royalty. The Tribunal followed earl...
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 : 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...
AIMTPA has made a request to FM for Extension of Due Dates under Direct Tax of all the Forms and Returns (Including Income Tax Returns, Tax Audit and Transfer Pricing Audit Report) till 31st March 2022 without any penal condition in view of unavailability of the I.T. Portal, various glitches and frequently changing schemas taking […]
An associate enterprise itself would not to be taken as a comparable since lacking the independent nature of an uncontrolled transaction in forming hallmark of Chapter X of the Act. We thus delete the impugned arms length price adjustment on receivables for this precise reason alone.
Since the issue of benchmarking the international transaction is required to be examined qua both the segments i.e. CSDS and ITES separately and independently for factual analysis of taxpayer’s TP study, the case is remanded back to ld. TPO who shall determine the ALP of international transactions of both the segments independently afresh after providing an opportunity of being heard to the parties.
PCIT Vs Mount Kellett Capital Management India Pvt. Ltd. (Bombay High Court) Entire exercise of making transfer pricing adjustments on the basis of comparables is nothing but a matter of estimate of a broad and fair guess-work of the authorities based on factual relevant materials brought before the authorities, i.e., the TPO or Dispute Resolution […]
Cisco Systems Capital (India) Private Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) The assessee grievance is bundled approach for benchmarking should be accepted. At the outset, the ld. AR submitted that the TPO has accepted the bundled approach of aggregation of payment of fees for administrative support services in the preceding years (i.e. from the incorporation year […]
The TPO and DRP erred in treating CCDs as ECBs and benchmarked the interest rate against LIBOR rate. The CCDs is a hybrid instrument and cannot be per se treated as ECB / loan.
The Hon’ble ITAT deleted the transfer pricing adjustment on account of interest on receivables due to failure of revenue authorities to find out even a single comparable in assessee’s segment charging interest in uncontrolled market conditions.
It has held that difference in the level of capacity utilization is an accepted principle, though denied in the relevant AY to the respondent. The same cannot, however, tantamount to filing without good faith and due diligence.
ITAT has taken the view that it is open to the parties in Transfer Pricing cases to take a stand contrary to their TP study, if they contend that the stand taken in the TP study is contrary to facts or was erroneous. Such a claim cannot be disregarded only on the basis that it is contrary to Assessee’s own stand in the TP study.
ACIT Vs e4e Business Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Bangalore) TPO should choose the internal comparable in controlled transaction as against an external comparable The underlying object behind computing ALP of an international transaction is to find out the profits which such enterprise would have earned if the transaction had been with some third party […]
