Search and seizure: abatement of earlier search bars use of prior seized material in later search-based assessments; relief limited to new documents f...
Admission of additional evidence under remand rules must await a meaningful remand report; failure to do so breaches natural justice and mandates rema...
Export Obligation Discharge Certificates for EPCG compliance cannot be questioned by Customs unless DGFT adjudicates and cancels them, so demands quas...
Transfer pricing issue: preference share investment was treated as a disguised loan and recharacterised for TP purposes on substance-over-form grounds; DRP/TPO conclusion was affirmed and interest benchmarked accordingly. Disallowance under exempt-income allocation: the assessee's suo motu ad hoc apportionment of employee and overhead costs was rejected as unsupported. Interest disallowance against investments was denied where interest free funds exceeded investments; administrative disallowance to be recomputed per relevant precedent. An additional ground on cost attribution for captive steam was refused; AO correctly attributed full plant cost to electricity, eliminating the 80 IA deduction. Interest deduction for acquisition of control denied for lack of nexus; alternative claim against dividend income rejected. Matters on post retirement medical provision and in house R&D expenditure restored to AO for factual examination; AO directed to consider rectification for foreign tax credit.
Transfer pricing issue: preference share investment was treated as a disguised loan and recharacterised for TP purposes on substance-over-form grounds; DRP/TPO conclusion was affirmed and interest benchmarked accordingly. Disallowance under exempt-income allocation: the assessee's suo motu ad hoc apportionment of employee and overhead costs was rejected as unsupported. Interest disallowance against investments was denied where interest free funds exceeded investments; administrative disallowance to be recomputed per relevant precedent. An additional ground on cost attribution for captive steam was refused; AO correctly attributed full plant cost to electricity, eliminating the 80 IA deduction. Interest deduction for acquisition of control denied for lack of nexus; alternative claim against dividend income rejected. Matters on post retirement medical provision and in house R&D expenditure restored to AO for factual examination; AO directed to consider rectification for foreign tax credit.
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