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...
Can price be the criteria to judge whether a transaction is at arm’s length? Should every transaction be accompanied with a certificate from a valuer? One may check if there are comparable products in the market. If yes, check the terms of sale/purchase, etc. of similar transactions and try obtaining quotes from other sources. Price […]
Understand the process of transfer pricing assessment proceedings and how it impacts income-tax returns. Learn about the role of Transfer Pricing Officer (TPO) and options for resolving disputes.
Nike India Private Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Bengalore) There is no dispute that the parent company Nike Inc., has introduced new products and the samples are supplied to third party distributors in order to create awareness of new products amongst the public. The assessee herein is merely an intermediary between M/s Nike Inc and the […]
Red Hat India Private Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Upon careful consideration we find that assessee has been following consistent system of revenue recognition. The assessee is inter alia engaged in the business of marketing, promotion and sale of ‘Red Hat subscriptions’ to customers in Indian sub-continent to avail support services that are for the […]
Hyundai Construction Equipment India Private Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Pune) Ground no.8 of the appeal is against making transfer pricing adjustment on entity level rather than restricting it to the AE transactions. The TPO computed the transfer pricing addition by considering revenues from Manufacturing segment‘ in totality at the entity level The DRP did not […]
TPO determined ALP on the combined accounts approach rather than the split approach adopted by assessee as assessee failed to substantiate such common material costs were properly allocated segment-wise and Transfer Pricing Adjustment made at entity level should be restricted to international transactions only.
Section 92 of the Income Tax Act deals with any income or expense arising from an ‘International Transaction’. In order to understand the definition of ‘International Transaction’, it is essential to understand the definition of ‘Transaction’. Clause (v) of Sections 92F of the Act defines a transaction as: Section 92F of the Act provides an […]
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the (G20) countries have launched an initiative known as base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS), which consists mostly of tax avoidance methods. These techniques primarily aim to fill in and make accommodations for tax policy loopholes, which aid in leveraging such gaps in tax regulations to deceptively shift earnings to low or no-tax nations. A business is often funded (or capitalized) through a combination of debt and equity.
everting to the CUP method applied by assessee as the most appropriate method for benchmarking the SDT of rent payment, assessee had given a comparable instance of rent paid @ Rs.112 per sq.ft. by ICICI bank under a lease agreement dated 17.02.2012 for a nearby premises. As against that, the assessee paid rent @ Rs.75.28 per sq.ft., which showed that the rent paid by assessee was less in comparison with the comparable uncontrolled transaction. Thus, the ALP of the Specified Domestic Tranasction of payment of rent could not be disputed.
The litigation in taxation matters is increasing on a rapid scale. However, where the transactions involves the foreign companies or their subsidiaries it is governed under the head of transfer pricing. The increasing participation of multi-national group in economic activities in the country has given rise to new and complex issues emerging from transactions entered in to between two or more enterprises belonging to the same multi- national group.
