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Issues: (i) Whether the exclusion of I Services India Private Limited from the set of comparables was sustainable when the related party transaction details were available in the record; (ii) whether Cheers Interactive India Private Limited could be included as a comparable after excluding payments to key managerial personnel in India from the related party transaction computation; and (iii) whether the addition of Rs. 23,972/- towards interest on TDS resulted in a duplicate addition requiring deletion.
Issue (i): Whether the exclusion of I Services India Private Limited from the set of comparables was sustainable when the related party transaction details were available in the record.
Analysis: The related party transaction computation depended on the profit and loss items and balance sheet figures already extracted in the transfer pricing order. The reason recorded for exclusion, namely absence of complete details, was found to be inconsistent with the material on record. Since the exact computation of the related party transaction percentage required verification, the issue called for fresh examination.
Conclusion: The issue was set aside to the file of the Transfer Pricing Officer for verification of the record, recomputation of the related party transaction filter, and reconsideration of inclusion of the comparable in accordance with law.
Issue (ii): Whether Cheers Interactive India Private Limited could be included as a comparable after excluding payments to key managerial personnel in India from the related party transaction computation.
Analysis: The audited financial statements disclosed the related party transactions, but the computation had included payments to key managerial personnel in India. Such payments were treated as not constituting international transactions for the purpose of the related party transaction filter. Fresh factual verification and recomputation were therefore necessary.
Conclusion: The issue was set aside to the Transfer Pricing Officer with a direction to exclude the payments to key managerial personnel in India while computing the related party transaction percentage and then reconsider inclusion of the comparable in accordance with law.
Issue (iii): Whether the addition of Rs. 23,972/- towards interest on TDS resulted in a duplicate addition requiring deletion.
Analysis: The return of income already reflected a disallowance of the said amount, and the processing under section 143(1) again added the same sum. This indicated a possible duplicate addition, but the record required verification at the assessment stage before relief could be granted.
Conclusion: The issue was remitted to the Assessing Officer to verify whether the amount had been added twice and, if so, to delete the duplicate addition in accordance with law.
Final Conclusion: The assessee obtained partial relief on all surviving issues, but the substantive relief was granted by way of remand for verification and fresh consideration, leaving the transfer pricing comparables and the TDS interest adjustment open for recomputation.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the record already contains the material necessary for related party transaction computation or indicates possible duplicate taxation, the matter may be restored for factual verification and recomputation rather than being finally decided on the existing assessment record.
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