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Safe Harbour Rules under New Income Tax Act, 2025 & Rules, 2026- Part III

Income Tax : This article explains how Safe Harbour Rules under the Income-tax Act, 2025 interact with APAs, MAP provisions, and transfer prici...

May 7, 2026 1143 Views 0 comment Print

Safe Harbour Rules under New Income Tax Act, 2025 & Rules, 2026- Part II

Income Tax : The framework outlines mandatory disclosures and timelines for opting into safe harbour. Key takeaway: strict compliance is essent...

May 1, 2026 1116 Views 0 comment Print

Safe Harbour Rules under New Income Tax Act, 2025 & Rules, 2026: Part I

Income Tax : The article explains how safe harbour rules simplify transfer pricing compliance. It highlights that eligible transactions are acc...

April 28, 2026 6531 Views 0 comment Print

India Transfer Pricing- Due Dates for Compliance for Tax Year 2026-27

Income Tax : The update outlines revised compliance forms, timelines, and penalties under the new rules. It highlights a structured transition ...

April 17, 2026 1374 Views 0 comment Print

Transfer Pricing MAM Selection: Germany–India Subsidiary Case (TNMM Approach)

Corporate Law : The issue was identifying the correct transfer pricing method for intercompany transactions. The conclusion holds that TNMM is app...

April 14, 2026 342 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


Record 219 APAs Signed Due to Rising Need for Transfer Pricing Certainty

Income Tax : CBDT signed a record number of APAs to provide clarity on transfer pricing and reduce disputes. The framework ensures advance dete...

April 1, 2026 402 Views 0 comment Print

KSCAA Seeks Parity in ITR Due Date Extension for Transfer Pricing Assessees

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...

November 3, 2025 543 Views 0 comment Print

CA Association Seeks Extension for ITR, Tax and TP Audit Dates

CA, CS, CMA : Chartered Accountants Association, Ahmedabad requests extension of ITR and audit due dates for AY 2025-26 citing compressed timeli...

September 10, 2025 8184 Views 1 comment Print

Tolerance Range for Transfer Pricing Notified for AY 2024-25

Income Tax : CBDT sets transfer pricing tolerance range at 1% for wholesale trading and 3% for other transactions for AY 2024-25, providing cla...

October 30, 2024 2403 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2024: TPO can evaluate SDTs not reported by taxpayers

Income Tax : From April 2025, TPOs can determine ALP for SDTs not initially referred or reported. This ensures accurate adjustments and complia...

July 26, 2024 1104 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Delhi Remands Transfer Pricing Case Due to Alleged Double Addition of TP Adjustments

Income Tax : The Tribunal restored the matter to the Assessing Officer after finding that transfer pricing adjustments may have been added twic...

June 9, 2026 48 Views 0 comment Print

Channel Owner Companies not Comparable Due to Functional Differences: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that television channel and content owner companies could not be compared with a content distribution business. Th...

June 9, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

Distribution Fee for Channel Distribution Not Royalty: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that distribution fees paid to associated enterprises could not be treated as royalty. The Tribunal followed earl...

June 9, 2026 72 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Management Fee TP Adjustment as Issue Was Already Decided in Earlier Years

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai deleted the transfer pricing adjustment on management fees after finding that identical issues in the assessee’s own...

June 8, 2026 117 Views 0 comment Print

No TP Adjustment Allowed if Foreign LLC Income Was Already Taxed in India: ITAT Delhi

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...

June 8, 2026 153 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Income Tax ALP Tolerance Range for AY 2025-26 Notified

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...

November 6, 2025 5121 Views 0 comment Print

Amendment of Safe Harbour Rules for AY 2025-26 under Section 92CB

Income Tax : CBDT notifies Income Tax (Sixth Amendment) Rules, 2025, introducing safe harbour rules for assessment year 2025-26. Full details o...

March 25, 2025 4971 Views 0 comment Print

Tolerance Range for Arm’s Length Price in FY 2024-25

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...

October 18, 2024 3357 Views 0 comment Print

Income-tax (Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Rules, 2023

Income Tax : Stay informed on the latest Income Tax Rule changes with Notification No. 104/2023 by the Ministry of Finance. Learn about amendme...

December 19, 2023 4650 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT extends applicability of Safe Harbour rules to AY 2023-24

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...

August 9, 2023 12819 Views 0 comment Print


CUP method can be applied by a comparing a pricing formulae instead of pricing quantification in amount

January 12, 2016 1149 Views 0 comment Print

Pr. CIT vs. Toll Global Forwarding India Pvt Ltd (Delhi High Court) CUP method can be applied by a comparing a pricing formulae, rather than the pricing quantification in amount. Rule 10AB inserted w.e.f. 01.04.2012 is beneficial in nature and so retrospective w.e.f. 01.04.2002

Unilateral action on the part of one party with absence of mutual agreement cannot result into an international transaction

January 8, 2016 1217 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC in the case of WHIRLPOOL OF INDIA LTD. held that in the absence of ‘mutual agreement’ or ‘arrangement’ or ‘action in concert’ for the allocation or apportionment of or contribution to the cost or expenses incurred by the Assessee in connection with benefit, service or facility provided to the AE , there cannot be an international transaction.

Revenue must show existence of agreement/ understanding with foreign entity before any TP adjustment for AMP expenditure

January 7, 2016 1235 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi High Court held In the case of Bausch & Lomb Eye care (India) Pvt. Ltd. that in the absence of any machinery provision, bringing an imagined transaction to tax is not possible. The decisions in CIT v. B.C. Srinivasa Setty (1981) 128 ITR 294 (SC) and PNB Finance Ltd. v. CIT (2008) 307 ITR 75 (SC) make this position clears.

If business of comparable company & assessee remains unchanged from last year, the company can’t be held incomparable in current year

January 7, 2016 880 Views 0 comment Print

In the case of Eli Lilly & Co. (India) Pvt. Ltd. Vs. ACIT Delhi bench of ITAT have held that as there is no change in the facts for the instant assessment year, the AO/DRP is directed to include EDCIL (the company excluded by TPO) in the final set of comparable companies.

Mere incidental benefits to foreign AE from AMP expenses cannot be a basis for existence of an international transaction

January 4, 2016 2069 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi High Court held In the case of Honda Siel Power Products Ltd. vs. DCIT that the Court is satisfied that in the present case, the Assessee is carrying on business as an independent enterprise and is incurring AMP expenses for its own benefit and not at the behest of the AE.

DRP cannot absolve from its duty without going into merits of contention of assessee while deciding comparability

December 31, 2015 906 Views 0 comment Print

In the case of M/s. Equant Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. Vs. ACIT Delhi Bench of ITAT remanded back the matter and held that DRP has not met the contention of the assessee in respect of inclusion/exclusion of comparable in its order.

TP: Companies in production & sale of software products cannot be compared with those in development of software on contract basis

December 31, 2015 2443 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi held In the case of Avaya India (P) Ltd. vs ACIT that a perusal of the annual report of company reveals that the said company has made income from sale of license to the tune of more than Rs.1 crore,

Transfer Pricing: Revenue can’t adjust operating costs in allowing capacity adjustment

December 28, 2015 3625 Views 0 comment Print

In the case of DCIT Vs. Claas India Pvt. Ltd. Delhi Bench of ITAT have denied to approve the method adopted by AO/TPO in allowing capacity adjustments. ITAT further held that once the law enjoins for doing a particular thing in a particular manner alone

Foreign exchange gain/loss arising out of revenue transactions is required to be considered as an item of operating revenue/cost

December 27, 2015 9150 Views 0 comment Print

In the case of Ameriprise India Pvt. Ltd. Vs. ACIT Delhi Bench of ITAT held that the AO was not justified in considering forex loss as non-operating cost as against the assessee’s claim of operating cost. ITAT further held that the amount of foreign exchange gain/loss arising out of revenue transactions is required to be considered as an item of operating revenue/cost

Transfer Pricing Applicability to Dairy Co-operative societies

December 24, 2015 4506 Views 0 comment Print

Introduction As we know the Finance Act 2012 has extended the scope of Transfer Pricing provisions to ‘Specified Domestic Transactions’ (SDT) between related parties w.e.f. AY 2013-14 by inserting section 92BA. Since its introduction there was ambiguity on its applicability to cooperative societies. There was no doubt of its applicability to cooperative societies claiming profit […]

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