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 : The Tribunal restored the matter to the Assessing Officer after finding that transfer pricing adjustments may have been added twic...
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 : 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...
As said earlier, the scrutiny selection date is fast approaching for cases to be selected for the A.Y.2018-19 by 30th September, 2019. The Finance Act, 2017 has made a slew of changes in various heads of income. Business incomes and Other incomes are the most toughest of all other sources that leads to additions, disallowances […]
As regards comparability of Maple e–solutions Ltd., it has now been well settled through various judicial precedents that this company cannot be treated as comparable due to unreliability of its financial data.
Beam Global Spirits & Wine (India) Pvt. Ltd. Vs. DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Brief of assessee’s facts: 1. Beam India (the assessee), a wholly owned subsidiary of Beam USA, was engaged in the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in India. 2. During AY 2008-09, the assessee entered following ITs with its AE along with outcome […]
Background The term “Place of Effective Management’ (POEM) had already been in existence in the Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘The Act’) for the purpose of application of special provisions for taxing shipping companies based on their POEM. However, the usage of the concept for the purpose of determination of residence of a foreign company […]
Transfer Pricing- No notional interest on transaction of purchase and sale of redeemable preference shares as it was not equivalent to interest free loans advances
KSS Limited (formerly known as K Sera Productions Ltd.) Vs Pr. CIT (Bombay High Court) Conclusion: Where the money was routed through AE by the assessee for the purpose of acquisition of distributorship, the back to back agreements, the contents thereof and most significantly, the fact that neither at the point of payment nor at […]
Hon’ble Bombay High Court (HC) held that the transfer pricing officer (TPO) cannot suo-motu assume jurisdiction to determine the arm’s length price (ALP) of specified domestic transactions (SDT) not referred to him.
Ms CLSA India Private Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) ITAT Mumbai held that AD-Hoc Determination of Arm’s Length ALP) Price By Transfer Pricing Officer (TPO) Not Sustainable in Law. FACTS – Assessee is a subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia, Netherland. Return of assessee was selected for scrutiny and international transaction with its associated enterprise […]
Transfer Pricing provisions on shares purchased at value in excess of FMV was not applicable as the same could only be invoked to bring to tax any income arising from an international transaction.
Under Section 92A of the Income Tax Act, two enterprises are treated as Associated Enterprises only when one of the enterprises participates in “management, control or capital” of the other enterprise. Section 92A(1) of the Income-tax Act specifies that and “Associated Enterprise” in relation to another enterprise, means an enterprise which participates, directly or indirectly, […]
