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Issues: Whether transfer pricing provisions under Chapter X of the Income-tax Act, 1961 apply to an assessee computing income under the Tonnage Tax Scheme in Chapter XII-G, and whether the transfer pricing adjustment made on that basis was liable to be deleted.
Analysis: The assessee had opted for the Tonnage Tax Scheme, under which income from operating qualifying ships is computed on a presumptive basis with reference to registered tonnage and the period of operation. The scheme overrides the normal computation provisions relating to business income, and the actual price or expenditure of international transactions does not enter the computation of tonnage income. In such a statutory framework, determination of arm's length price under Chapter X does not alter the taxable income computed under Chapter XII-G. The Tribunal followed the view that the machinery of transfer pricing cannot be applied where the income itself is determined by a special deeming and presumptive formula unrelated to actual receipts or expenses.
Conclusion: Chapter X was held inapplicable to the assessee's tonnage-tax income, and the transfer pricing adjustment was directed to be deleted, in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The appeal succeeded on the legal question of applicability of transfer pricing to a tonnage-tax assessee, and the remaining grounds were left unadjudicated.
Ratio Decidendi: Where income is computed under the Tonnage Tax Scheme in Chapter XII-G on a presumptive basis unrelated to actual transaction values, transfer pricing adjustments under Chapter X have no bearing on the taxable income and cannot be applied to alter the computation.
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