Automated airline software subscriptions without human intervention fail technical-services characterisation and do not make available underlying tech...
Business support recruitment and training receipts qualify for presumptive business taxation, not professional taxation under technical consultancy ru...
Treaty exemption for foreign permanent-establishment management fees prevailed, while dividend expense disallowance remained limited to an accepted al...
Centralised assessment transfers: participation after requesting centralisation can bar technical jurisdictional challenges, while assessment disputes...
Binding precedent remains operative despite pending challenge, supporting deletion of interest disallowance when debt is converted into preference sha...
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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