Third-party loose sheets require reliable nexus before supporting unexplained expenditure additions; presumptions do not establish payer identity or o...
TNMM comparability using audited accounts and working-capital adjustments can eliminate unwarranted transfer-pricing additions where verified margins ...
Gross-profit additions on disputed purchases require reasoned appellate determination; disclosed claims alone do not support inaccurate-particulars pe...
Limitation after transfer-pricing remand: fresh TPO reference did not extend the assessment deadline, rendering the consequential assessment time-barr...
Interim judicial restraint on tax deduction prevents default, while supporting reasonable cause and penalty deletion for foreign-leg LFC reimbursement...
Palmolein classification defeated the crude-oil concession; material misdeclaration sustained recovery and confiscation, while separate false-document...
Additional claim for refund of excess dividend distribution tax on dividends paid to a Singapore shareholder at the treaty rate was admitted and remitted to the Assessing Officer for consideration after the Supreme Court larger Bench resolves the underlying issue. Reference to a larger Bench does not, by itself, prevent the Tribunal from following binding jurisdictional High Court precedent, although the merits were left open. Market research and media-measurement expenditure incurred by a media agency was treated as revenue expenditure because client agreements, invoices and the business model established commercial expediency and business nexus; absent contrary material on genuineness, quantum or reasonableness, deletion of disallowance was affirmed.
Additional claim for refund of excess dividend distribution tax on dividends paid to a Singapore shareholder at the treaty rate was admitted and remitted to the Assessing Officer for consideration after the Supreme Court larger Bench resolves the underlying issue. Reference to a larger Bench does not, by itself, prevent the Tribunal from following binding jurisdictional High Court precedent, although the merits were left open. Market research and media-measurement expenditure incurred by a media agency was treated as revenue expenditure because client agreements, invoices and the business model established commercial expediency and business nexus; absent contrary material on genuineness, quantum or reasonableness, deletion of disallowance was affirmed.
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