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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 6519 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


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

TP Adjustment Quashed as Benefit Test Cannot Justify NIL ALP After Service Receipt Is Established

Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that transfer pricing authorities cannot assign a NIL arm’s length price when the assessee has demonstrated ...

June 8, 2026 102 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


Royalty Payments and Transfer Pricing Issues

August 5, 2015 29637 Views 0 comment Print

Royalty means payment of any kind received as consideration for the use of or right to use any intangible property like patent, copyright, design or model, secret formula or process, trademark, trade name or for information concerning industrial, commercial or scientific experience.

Interest free loans extended as quasi capital to 100% subsidiary cannot have nil ALP

August 3, 2015 2533 Views 0 comment Print

In this case ITAT examined that whether Arm’s Length Price (ALP) adjustments will also be warranted in case of interest free loans extended as quasi capital and what are the connotations of expression ‘quasi capital’ in the context of the transfer pricing legislation.

Allowing credit period to the AE has to be considered along with main international transaction of sale of goods

July 31, 2015 1311 Views 0 comment Print

The transaction of allowing credit period to the AE on realization of sale proceeds is not an independent transaction and has to be considered along with the main international transaction of sale of goods.

Transfer Pricing- Companies having abnormal cost cannot be taken as comparable

July 29, 2015 1744 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee had reduced its operating expenses to calculate ratio of operating profit/Total cost which was the base to calculate the value of export of goods in transfer pricing on the basis that it was its first year of operation

In transfer pricing 2 companies can be compared only if they are functionally comparable

July 29, 2015 1789 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee was engaged in the field of providing insurance & Human Resources services to its associated enterprise in UK. The Ld. AO /TPO made an addition to the income of the assessee by comparing the income of the assessee with the income of the comparable companies

TNMM is a right method to arrive at ALP when assessee have not taken Substantial Risks

July 23, 2015 2229 Views 0 comment Print

In the present facts of the case the Hon’ble High Court held that as the assessee have not taken substantial risks and was a mediator in the international transactions. Hence, Transactional Net Margin Method is a right method instead of Profit Split method.

Domestic Transfer Pricing – The Current Scenario

July 5, 2015 2534 Views 0 comment Print

Transfer Pricing is the setting of the price for goods and services sold between controlled/related legal entities. It is generally aimed at depicting favourable performance of a conglomerate by shifting earnings from a high tax jurisdiction to a low-tax one.

TP adjustments not applicable on transactions between Head Office & Branch Office

June 26, 2015 5849 Views 0 comment Print

Whether the transactions between the head office in India and branch office in Canada can be considered as international transactions? The assessee had entered into certain transaction with his branch office in Canada. The AO had taken these transactions also into sweep for the purposes of making the transfer pricing adjustment.

Marketing & liasoning services can’t be equated with advisory services for ALP adjustment

June 23, 2015 637 Views 0 comment Print

The Tribunal, in assessment year 2006-07, in the assessee’s own case and on identical facts/ circumstances, has given a clear finding that the fee received by the assessee for providing marketing and liasioning services cannot be equated with the advisory services given to an investment manager.

Functionally Different Companies can’t be compared under transfer Pricing

June 17, 2015 1528 Views 0 comment Print

In the present case the Hon’ble Tribunal held that assessee can’t be compared with other companies when they are totally different in functions. Also, the Intellectual property Rights, Brand Value have to be seen while making comparisons under Transfer Pricing.

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