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Income Tax : CBDT sets transfer pricing tolerance range at 1% for wholesale trading and 3% for other transactions for AY 2024-25, providing cla...
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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...
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Income Tax : Notification No. 46/2023-Income-Tax Dated: 26th June, 2023 regarding deemed arm's length price for assessment year 2023-2024. Le...
On 19.12.2014, Central Board of Direct Taxes has signed a bilateral Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) with a Japanese Company. This is India’s first bilateral APA. The APA is for a period of five years. The APA has been finalized in a period of about one and a half years, which is shorter than time normally taken in finalizing APAs internationally.
What is BEPS -BEPS refers to tax planning strategies that exploit gaps and mismatches in tax rules to artificially shift profits to low or no-tax locations where there is little or no economic activity, resulting in little or no overall corporate tax being paid.
In the Judgment of Aurionpro Solutions Ltd. vs. ACIT, Range – 4(3), Mumbai, ITA No. 7872 (Mum.) of 2011, ITAT Mumbai has held that for purpose of determination of Arm’s Length Price, tested party is always assessee and not its Associate Enterprise (AE), LIBOR is acceptable for benchmarking loans given by Indian company to its foreign AEs, instead of interest rates prevailing in India.
Comment on Shell’s wins of transfer pricing tax dispute in Bombay HC The aggressive approach of tax authorities and the earlier government in case of Vodafone and Shell led to erosion of confidence of global investors. In this context, the favourable decision of H’ble Bombay High Court in case of Shell India Markets Private Limited […]
Neither the capital receipts received by the Petitioner on issue of equity shares to its holding company, a non-resident entity, nor the alleged short-fall between the so called fair market price of its equity shares and the issue price of the equity shares can be considered as income within the meaning of the expression as defined under the Act.
Contemporaneous documentation means information, records and other documents which exist or brought into existence at the time the taxpayer is developing or implementing any arrangement that might raise transfer pricing issues. It is important that documentation on which assessee is placing reliance to establish arm’s length price should be the one which was available when […]
In the instant case, the assesse has issued shares to its holding company at premium (INR 8591) amounting to INR 246.38 crores. The said transaction was reported in Form 3CEB, although assesse claimed TP Provisions are not applicable on income arising on such transactions.
Notification No. 45/2014-Income Tax DATED 23-9-2014 Central Government hereby notifies that where the variation between the arm’s length price determined under section 92C and the price of which the international transaction or specified domestic transaction has actually been undertaken does not exceed one percent of the latter in respect of wholesale trading and three percent of the latter.
Transfer pricing has become the most significant source of litigation in India and is increasingly becoming a regular discussion point in the board room of large Indian and Global Multinational enterprises (“MNEs”). Indian Tribunals have issued around 650 rulings over the past decade on transfer pricing issues, setting precedents for taxpayers on a wide range of issues.
The Income Tax Act 1961(‘The Act’) as amended by Finance Act 2012 brought specified domestic related party transactions (SDT) within its fold with effect from FY 2012-13 vide section 93BA of the Act and admittedly as with any new legislation, there were very few early adopters. SDT provisions principally have impact in two ways, firstly […]
