Transfer pricing comparables and adjustments: Tribunal revisits loss-maker status, segmental comparability, working capital relief, and risk allocatio...
Business expenditure disallowance failed where commission, related-party salary and promotion payments were supported by records and inquiry was inade...
Pharmaceutical sales-promotion expenditure is disallowable only where it directly provides prohibited benefits, such as travel or hotel facilities, to medical practitioners; patient education, professional events and other non-prohibited promotional costs remain deductible. A retracted search statement without independent corroboration cannot support an over-invoicing addition. Manufacturing scrap and empty-container sales qualify for profit-linked deductions, while the industrial excise-refund incentive described is a capital receipt excluded from taxable income and book profit. Transfer-pricing analysis requires reliable functional, temporal and economic comparability; unsupported adjustments for domestic transactions, export pricing, guarantees and genuine intra-group services were rejected. The note also addresses exempt-income expenditure, foreign tax credit attribution, and independent examination of approved in-house research expenditure.
Pharmaceutical sales-promotion expenditure is disallowable only where it directly provides prohibited benefits, such as travel or hotel facilities, to medical practitioners; patient education, professional events and other non-prohibited promotional costs remain deductible. A retracted search statement without independent corroboration cannot support an over-invoicing addition. Manufacturing scrap and empty-container sales qualify for profit-linked deductions, while the industrial excise-refund incentive described is a capital receipt excluded from taxable income and book profit. Transfer-pricing analysis requires reliable functional, temporal and economic comparability; unsupported adjustments for domestic transactions, export pricing, guarantees and genuine intra-group services were rejected. The note also addresses exempt-income expenditure, foreign tax credit attribution, and independent examination of approved in-house research expenditure.
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