Transfer pricing requires evidence for AMP transactions, functionally reliable comparables, and appropriate aggregation or Berry Ratio benchmarking me...
Revisionary jurisdiction cannot reopen share capital assessments where adequate inquiry supports a permissible view and no independent error is establ...
Reassessment jurisdiction fails where unverified portal information is aggregated without examining the taxpayer's explanation or relevance of entries...
Statutory sanction for delayed reassessment requires approval from the prescribed authority; approval by an inferior authority invalidates jurisdictio...
Transfer pricing margin adjustments require matching treatment of non-operating income and related costs, with comparability issues reconsidered on ev...
Preliminary-expense amortisation and MAT exempt-income adjustments prevailed, while trademark costs and managerial remuneration require fresh verifica...
Export valuation requires contemporaneous evidence; unrelated invoices cannot prove overvaluation, and dual penalties on firm and partner are impermis...
Taxability of shipping income - Shipping income as dealt by Article-8 states that profits derived by an enterprise of a contracting state by operation of ships in international traffic shall be taxable only in the State of residence. The word 'only' debars the other contracting state to tax the shipping income so earned by the assessee even if it is sourced from India. When India does not have any taxation right on a shipping income of non-resident entity, exemption or reduced rate of taxation in the source state is of no relevance because once the taxing right has been given-off, the other conditions like exemption or reduced rate of tax has no bearing on the taxability of particular income in other contracting state. - AT
Taxability of shipping income - Shipping income as dealt by Article-8 states that profits derived by an enterprise of a contracting state by operation of ships in international traffic shall be taxable only in the State of residence. The word 'only' debars the other contracting state to tax the shipping income so earned by the assessee even if it is sourced from India. When India does not have any taxation right on a shipping income of non-resident entity, exemption or reduced rate of taxation in the source state is of no relevance because once the taxing right has been given-off, the other conditions like exemption or reduced rate of tax has no bearing on the taxability of particular income in other contracting state. - AT
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