Transfer pricing comparability requires functional alignment and permits working capital adjustment, while APA margins cannot govern non-covered years...
Treaty benefit, goodwill depreciation and hedging costs: export commission disallowed, while key business deductions and depreciation claims succeeded...
Undisclosed foreign asset classification requires an unexplained source; unrebutted affidavits and corroborative evidence defeated the Black Money Act...
Claim of interest expenditure - Nexus between investments and borrowed funds - A clear and direct nexus has to be established between the loan funds and the investments before a disallowance u/s. 56(1)(iii) of the Act is made. If there is a direct nexus between the loan funds and such investments, then the proposition that if the assessee had surplus funds with it, then the investment would be presumed to have been made from such surplus funds would not hold good and then the disallowance u/s. 36(1)(iii) of the Act would be fully justified. However, if there is no direct link between the borrowed funds and the investments, then the presumption would were in favour of the assessee. - AT
Claim of interest expenditure - Nexus between investments and borrowed funds - A clear and direct nexus has to be established between the loan funds and the investments before a disallowance u/s. 56(1)(iii) of the Act is made. If there is a direct nexus between the loan funds and such investments, then the proposition that if the assessee had surplus funds with it, then the investment would be presumed to have been made from such surplus funds would not hold good and then the disallowance u/s. 36(1)(iii) of the Act would be fully justified. However, if there is no direct link between the borrowed funds and the investments, then the presumption would were in favour of the assessee. - AT
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