Partial appellate remand of transfer-pricing comparability...

Partial appellate remand of transfer-pricing comparability issues, without setting aside or cancelling the assessment, requires effect to be given otherwise than through a fresh assessment. Where the remand requires fresh examination and hearing, the limitation period applicable to consequential action applies. A Tribunal remand to the Transfer Pricing Officer does not constitute an Assessing Officer's reference to that officer and therefore does not trigger the additional limitation extension available for such a reference. The consequential assessment, completed after the prescribed deadline, was quashed as time-barred; the remaining transfer-pricing challenges became infructuous.