Corporate guarantees to subsidiaries are described as...

Corporate guarantees to subsidiaries are described as shareholder activities but, following retrospective inclusion within capital financing, remain international transactions requiring arm's length benchmarking; the guarantee commission was restricted to 0.5%. Omission without a saving clause of the specified domestic transaction category for related-party expenditure invalidated the related transfer-pricing reference and adjustment. Common head-office costs may be allocated at cost among eligible and non-eligible units because the head office is a cost centre, not an independent service provider. Interest-free advances to overseas associated enterprises require arm's length interest benchmarking despite own funds or commercial expediency. Recurring advertisement, brand-promotion and market-research expenditure was treated as revenue expenditure, not capital expenditure.