Liability for EPCG export shortfall: duty and interest sustained, but confiscation and penalties quashed where no fraud and causes beyond importer con...
Management support services supported by agreements, invoices, allocation records, presentations, e-mails and time sheets were treated as genuine business services, not mere stewardship or shareholder activities, so the arm's length price could not be fixed at nil without applying a recognised transfer pricing method. In the manufacturing segment, TNMM analysis showed the tested party's operating margin remained higher than the corrected comparable margin, so no transfer pricing adjustment could survive. The appellate deletion of both adjustments was sustained.
Management support services supported by agreements, invoices, allocation records, presentations, e-mails and time sheets were treated as genuine business services, not mere stewardship or shareholder activities, so the arm's length price could not be fixed at nil without applying a recognised transfer pricing method. In the manufacturing segment, TNMM analysis showed the tested party's operating margin remained higher than the corrected comparable margin, so no transfer pricing adjustment could survive. The appellate deletion of both adjustments was sustained.
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