Effective hearing in GST adjudication requires actual opportunity to respond; ineffective service through a former auditor invalidated ex parte procee...
Third-party search material requires special assessment route, rendering general reassessment notices without jurisdiction when it forms the proceedin...
Transfer-pricing adjustments must be confined to international associated-enterprise transactions, while functionally dissimilar comparables remain ex...
Insolvency moratorium bars income-tax revision proceedings against corporate debtors until the moratorium ends, preserving merits for later determinat...
Compulsorily convertible debentures, despite their hybrid features, retain their character as debt until conversion into shares. Transfer-pricing authorities cannot treat such instruments as equity solely from their features and fix the arm's length price of related interest at nil. Debt-to-equity recharacterisation is contemplated under Chapter X-A only after an impermissible avoidance arrangement is declared through the prescribed procedure. As no such procedure was invoked, the recharacterisation and resulting transfer-pricing adjustment were deleted, and the appeal was allowed.
Compulsorily convertible debentures, despite their hybrid features, retain their character as debt until conversion into shares. Transfer-pricing authorities cannot treat such instruments as equity solely from their features and fix the arm's length price of related interest at nil. Debt-to-equity recharacterisation is contemplated under Chapter X-A only after an impermissible avoidance arrangement is declared through the prescribed procedure. As no such procedure was invoked, the recharacterisation and resulting transfer-pricing adjustment were deleted, and the appeal was allowed.
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