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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.
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) With respect to the TP adjustment to the export commission, which is claimed by the assessee that it is intrinsically, looked that the main activity of manufacturing and sale of products and as such could not be identified separately for benchmarking. It is also […]
Dow Agrosciences India Private Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) We shall now deal with the observation of the TPO/DRP that the approval provided by the RBI would not constitute a valid CUP data, since the RBI does not take into account the transfer pricing provisions to determine the appropriate rates which can be considered as […]
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. […]
