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2016 (6) TMI 1333

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....any was providing software development service to its group companies. Assessee is a captive service provider assisting SAP AG, Germany in research, design and development of new software products, software enhancement and modifying existing software modules. It operates from various units registered with Software Technology Parks (STP) of India. Assessee had international transactions in the nature of software development services rendered to its AE abroad, and receipts from such software development related services came to Rs. 5,20,17,36,977/-. Operating margin worked out by assessee for the software development services segment was 8.48% as under : 04. For bench marking the value of its international transactions assessee had in its TP study considered TNM as most appropriate method and for this purpose selected 18 comparables. Comparables selected by assessee and their margin were as under : 05. As per the assessee, its margin compared favourably with the arithmetic mean of the PLI of the comparables mentioned above and therefore there was no requirement of any adjustment on account of ALP. 06. When the matter was referred by AO to the TPO, TPO was of the opinion that....

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....nsidered here as well. 10. Continuing his arguments, Ld. AR submitted that M/s. Megasoft Ltd, one among the comparables was remitted back by the Tribunal in the very same case for consideration of segmental results, based on its Blue Ally segment. Ld. AR also submitted that an additional ground has been filed for exclusion of Accel Transmatic Ltd (seg), E-Zest Solutions Ltd, Helios & Matheson Information Technology Ltd, Persistent Systems Ltd, and Thirdware Solutions Ltd, since assessee had not challenged the appropriateness of the above comparables before the lower authorities. For admission of the additional ground, Ld. AR relied on the decision of Special Bench of this Tribunal in the case of DCIT v. Quark Systems Pvt. Ltd. [42 DTR 414]. Ld. AR also pointed out that very same set of comparables were also considered by the Tribunal in the case of M/s. Hewlett- Packard (India) Globalsoft P. Ltd v DCIT [ITA.1031/Bang/2011, dt.23.09.2015] also, and this Tribunal following its decision in SAP Labs (supra) had directed the exclusion of the companies assailed here. As per the Ld. AR, if these companies are excluded, the final set of comparables that would remain are Datamatics Ltd, ....

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.... Ltd (seg), Lucid Software Ltd, Persistent Systems Ltd, Quintegra Solutions Ltd, Tata Elxsi Ltd (seg), Thirdware Solutions Ltd (seg) and Wipro Ltd (seg) are concerned, the issue of comparability of these companies had come up before this Tribunal in the case of NXP Semiconductors India P. Ltd (supra). Analysis done in the said decision was also for software development services segment and the TPO in the said case had also selected the very same set of 26 companies. Said decision being for the very same assessment year 2007-08, we are of the opinion that it can be taken as a good precedence for deciding the issue of comparability raised by the assessee herein, in so far as these companies are concerned. This Tribunal had observed as under : i) Accel Transmatic Ltd. 48. With regard to this company, the complaint of the assessee is that this company is not a pure software development service company. It is further submitted that in a Mumbai Tribunal Decision of Capgemini India (F) Ltd v Ad. CIT 12 Taxman.com 51, the DRP accepted the contention of the assessee that Accel Transmatic should be rejected as comparable. The relevant observations of DRP as extracted by the....

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....arables." 20. Respectfully following the decision of the Tribunal in similar set of facts, these companies are directed to be excluded from the list of comparables." ii) Avani Cimcon Technologies Ltd. 39. As far as this company is concerned, the plea of the Assessee has been that this company is functionally different from the assessee. Based on the information available in the company's website, which reveals that this company has developed a software product by name "DXchange", it was submitted that this company would have revenue from software product sales apart from rendering of software services and therefore is functionally different from the assessee. It was further submitted that the Mumbai Bench of the Tribunal to the decision in the case of Telcordia Technologies Pvt. Ltd. v. ACIT - ITA No.7821/Mum/2011 wherein the Tribunal accepted the assessee's contention that this company has revenue from software product and observed that in the absence of segmental details, Avani Cincom cannot be considered as comparable to the assessee who was rendering software development services only and it was held as follows:- "7.8 Avani Cincom Technologie....

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.... the Director's Report (page 20 of PB-Il), it is stated that "the company has applied for Income Tax concession for in-house R&D centre expenditure at Hyderabad under section 35(2AB) of the Income Tax Act." * As per the Notes to Accounts - Schedule 15, under "Deferred Revenue Expenditure" (page 31 of PB-II), it is mentioned that, "Expenditure incurred on research and development of new products has been treated as deferred revenue expenditure and the same has been written off in 10 years equally yearly installments from the year in which it is incurred." An amount of Rs. 11,692,020/- has been debited to the Profit and Loss Account as "Deferred Revenue Expenditure" (page 30 of PB-II). This amounts to nearly 8.28 percent of the sales of this company. It was therefore submitted that the acceptance of this company as a comparable for the reason that it is into pure software development activities and is not engaged in R&D activities is bad in law. 43. Further reference was also made to the decision of the Mumbai Bench of the Tribunal in the case of Teva Pharma Private Ltd. v. Addl. CIT - ITA No.6623/Mum/2011 (for AY 2007-08) in which the comparability of this company ....

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....n functional comparability can be eliminated. By not resorting to such a process of making adjustment, the TPO has rendered this company as not qualifying for comparability. We therefore accept the plea of the Assessee in this regard.' " 44. It was submitted that the learned DR in the above case vehemently argued that this company is into research in pharmaceutical products. The ITAT concluded that this company is owner of IPR, it has software for discovery of new drugs and has developed molecule to treat cancer. In the ultimate analysis, the ITAT did not consider this company as a comparable in clinical trial segment, for the reason that this company has diverse business. It was submitted that, however, from the above extracts it is clear that this company is not into software development activities, accordingly, this company should be rejected as a comparable being functionally different. 45.From the material available on record, it transpires that the TPO has accepted that up to AY 06-07 this company was classified as a Research and Development company. According to the TPO in AY 07- 08 this company has been classified as software development service provider i....

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....his company was mainly in the business of providing software development services. We therefore accept the plea of the Assessee that this company ought not to have been considered as comparable. iv) E-Zest Solutions Ltd. 14.1 This company was selected by the TPO as a comparable. Before the TPO, the assessee had objected to the inclusion of this company as a comparable on the ground that it was functionally different from the assessee. The TPO had rejected the objections raised by the assessee on the ground that as per the information received in response to notice under section 133(6) of the Act, this company is engaged in software development services and satisfies all the filters. 14.2 Before us, the learned Authorised Representative contended that this company ought to be excluded from the list of comparables on the ground that it is functionally different to the assessee. It is submitted by the learned Authorised Representative that this company is engaged in 'e-Business Consulting Services', consisting of Web Strategy Services, I T design services and in Technology Consulting Services including product development consulting services. These services,....

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....hat this company, i.e. e-Zest Solutions Ltd. be omitted from the set of comparables for the period under consideration in the case on hand. The A.O. /TPO is accordingly directed. v) Helios & Matheson Information Technology Ltd & Kals Information Systems Ltd (seg) : 16. The next point made out by the assessee is with regard to the inclusion of items at (9) and (11) namely Helios & Matheson Information Technology Ltd., and KALS Information Solutions Ltd. (Seg). The primary plea raised by the assessee to assail the inclusion of the aforesaid two companies from the list of comparables is to be effect that they are functionally incomparable and therefore, are liable to be excluded. In sum and substance, the plea set up by the assessee is that both the aforesaid concerns are engaged in development and sale of software products which is functionally different from the services undertaken by the assessee in its IT-services segment. 17. As per the discussion in para 6.3.2. of the order of the TPO, the reason advanced for including KALS Information Systems Ltd., is to the effect that the said concern's application software segment is engaged in the development of s....

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....therefore, there was no justification for the TPO to consider the said concern as functionally comparable in the instant assessment year. 19. In our considered opinion, the point raised by the assessee is potent in as much as it is quite evident that the said concern has not been found to be functionally comparable with the assessee in the immediately preceding assessment year and in the present year also, on the basis of the Annual Report, referred to in the written submissions addressed to the lower authorities, the assessee has correctly asserted out that the said concern was inter alia engaged in sale of software products, which was quite distinct from the activity undertaken by the assessee in the IT Services segment. At the time of hearing, neither is there any argument put forth by the Revenue and nor is there any discussion emerging from the orders of the lower authorities as to in what manner the functional profile of the said concern has undergone a change from that in the immediately preceding year. Therefore, having regard to the factual aspects brought out by the assessee, it is correctly asserted that the application software segment of the said concern is no....

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....revenue sharing agreement towards acquisition of IPR in AUTOLAY, a commercial software product used in designing high performance structural systems. (v) The assessee also placed reliance on the following judicial decisions:- (a) ITAT, Delhi Bench decision in the case of Agnity India Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. (ITA No.3856/Del/2010) and (b) Trilogy E-Business Software India Pvt. Ltd. (ITA No.1054/Bang/2011) 12.3 Per contra, opposing the contentions of the assessee, the learned Departmental Representative submitted that comparability cannot be decided merely on the basis of scale of operations and the operating margins of this company have not been extraordinary. In view of this, the learned Departmental Representative supported the decision of the TPO to include this company in the list of comparable companies. 12.4 We have heard the rival submissions and perused and carefully considered the material on record. We find that the assessee has brought on record sufficient evidence to establish that this company is functionally dis-similar and different from the assessee and hence is not comparable and the finding rendered in the case of T....

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....ucid Software Ltd. As observed therein Lucid Software Ltd. company is also involved in the development of software as compared to the assessee, which is only into software services. Similarly, as regards Ishir Infotech Ltd., the Tribunal has considered the decision of the Tribunal in the case of 24/7 Co. Pvt. Ltd to hold that Ishir Infotech is also out-sourcing its work and, therefore, has not satisfied the 25% employee cost filter and thus has to be excluded from the list of comparables. As the facts of the case before us are similar, respectfully following the decision of the co-ordinate bench, we hold that these two companies are also to be excluded. 21. Respectfully following the decision of the Tribunal referred to above, we direct the AO/TPO to exclude the aforesaid companies from the final list of comparable companies for the purpose of determining ALP. x) Persistent Systems Ltd. 17.1.1 This company was selected by the TPO as a comparable. The assessee objected to the inclusion of this company as a comparable for the reasons that this company being engaged in software product designing and analytic services, it is functionally different and further....

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....istent Systems Ltd., is engaged in product development and product design services while the assessee is a software development services provider. We find that, as submitted by the assessee, the segmental details are not given separately. Therefore, following the principle enunciated in the decision of the Mumbai Tribunal in the case of Telecordia Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. (supra) that in the absence of segmental details / information a company cannot be taken into account for comparability analysis, we hold that this company i.e. Persistent Systems Ltd. ought to be omitted from the set of comparables for the year under consideration. It is ordered accordingly. xii) Tata Elxsi Ltd. 14.1 This company was a comparable selected by the TPO. Before the TPO, the assessee had objected to the inclusion of this company in the set of comparables on several counts like, functional dissimilarity, significant R&D activity, brand value, size, etc. The TPO, however, rejected the contention put forth by the assessee and included this company in the set of comparables. 14.2 Before us, it was reiterated that this company is not functionally comparable to the assessee as....

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.... hold that this company is not to be considered for inclusion in the set of comparables in the case on hand. It is ordered accordingly." 25. Respectfully following the decision of the Tribunal referred to above, we direct the AO/TPO to exclude the aforesaid companies from the final list of comparable companies for the purpose of determining ALP. xiii) Thirdware Solutions Ltd. (Segment) 15.1 This company was proposed for inclusion in the list of comparables by the TPO. Before the TPO, the assessee objected to the inclusion of this company in the list of comparables on the ground that its turnover was in excess of Rs. 500 Crores. Before us, the assessee has objected to the inclusion of this company as a comparable for the reason that apart from software development services, it is in the business of product development and trading in software and giving licenses for use of software. In this regard, the learned Authorised Representative submitted that :- (i) This company is engaged in product development and earns revenue from sale of licences and subscription. It has been pointed out from the Annual Report that the company has not provided any sepa....

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....elated intangibles and technology related intangibles and quoted extracts from the Annual Report of this company in the submissions made. (ii) The TPO had adopted the consolidated financial statements for comparability purposes and for computing the margins, which contradicts the TPO's own filter of rejecting companies with consolidated financial statements. 13.3. Per contra, the learned Departmental Representative supported the action of the TPO in including this company in the set of comparables. 13.4.1 We have heard both parties and carefully perused and considered the material on record. We find merit in the contentions of the assessee for exclusion of this company from the set of comparables. It is seen that this company is engaged both in software development and product development services. There is no information on the segmental bifurcation of revenue from sale of product and software services. The TPO appears to have adopted this company as a comparable without demonstrating how the company satisfies the software development sales 75% of the total revenue filter adopted by him. Another major flaw in the comparability analysis carried out by the....

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....r the assessee that this company cannot be included as a comparable in the set of comparables selected by ld. TPO on account of clear contradiction between contents of annual report and information obtained u/s 133(6). 27. Rule 10D(3) specifies the information and documents that are to be maintained by a person who is entering into international transactions. These are official publications, published accounts or those which are in public domain except for agreements and contracts to which assessee is privy. Once the annual report of a company is for a year different from the financial year ending 31st March, then without doubt, it will cease to be a good comparable, unless the information received in pursuance to a notice u/s.133(6) of the Act from such company, is reconciled with the figures available in such annual report. 28. In the case of Flextronics Software Systems Ltd (seg), no doubt the annual report was for the year ending 31.03.2007. However it was only for a nine months period. No reconciliation was attempted by the lower authorities between the figures given in such annual report with the figures which were made available by the said company to the T....

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....ftware sold and used for customization was less than 25% of the overall revenues. The TPO therefore held that less than 25% of the revenues of the comparable are from software products and therefore the comparable satisfied TPO's filter of more than 75% of revenues from software development services. The basis on which the TPO arrived at the PLI of 60.23% is given at page-115 and 116 of the order of the TPO. It is clear from the perusal of the same that the TPO has proceeded to determine the PLI at the entity level and not on the basis of segmental data. 25. In the order of the TPO, operating margin was computed for this company at 60.23%. It is the complaint of the assessee that the operating margins have been computed at entity level combining software services and software product segments. It was submitted that the product segment of Megasoft is substantially different from its software service segment. The product segment has employee cost of 27.65% whereas the software service segment has employee cost of 50%. Similarly, the profit margin on cost in product segment is 117.95% and in case of software service segment it is 23.11%. Both the segments are substantially di....

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....ed as a comparable only after effecting proper segmentation of its results as mentioned at para 15 above. TPO/AO is directed to rework the ALP of international transactions of the assessee accordingly. Needless to say that working capital adjustment has to be given to the assessee based on the work- out of such working capital, relating to the final set of comparables left in the list. 17. In the result grounds 3 to 5 and additional ground raised by the assessee are treated as partly allowed. 18. Vide its ground.6, grievance of the assessee is that its claim for deduction u/s.80JJAA of the Act, was not allowed by the lower authorities. 19. Facts apropos are that assessee had claimed deduction of Rs. 9,26,66,731/- u/s.80JJAA of the Act. Claim was supported with audit report in form 10DA. As per assessee, software engineers employed by them were workmen under Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. Claim was in respect of additional wages paid to 976 new workman. Total wages paid to such new workman came to Rs. 30,88,89,102/- and at 30% thereof, the amount worked out to Rs. 9,26,66,731/-. Unitwise details of the claim were as under : 20. It is to be noted that assessee was claimin....

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....perused the orders and considered the rival contentions. The claim of assessee with regard to additional wages paid to new workman was denied for a reason that engineers who were newly employed by the assessee were not considered as workers by the lower authorities. However, in a similar situation in the case of Texas Instruments India P. Ltd, (supra), it was held by the coordinate bench at para 6 and 7 of its order, as under : 6. We have heard the rival submissions and carefully perused the records. Considering the factual position after referring to the various documents filed by the assessee, the learned CIT(A) held as under : "According to the AO if an employee or workman is getting a salary of more than Rs. 1,600 per month he is not covered by the definition of workman. However as per cl. (iv) of s. 2(s) of the Industrial. Disputes Act a worker, employed in supervisory capacity and getting a salary of more than Rs. 1,600 per month only be excluded from the definition of workman. In appellant's case the software engineers in respect of whom deduction under s. 80JJAA has been claimed have not been employed in a supervisory capacity even though they may be g....

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..... 1,09,52,012 and Rs. 3,46,44,722 for asst. yrs. 2001-02 and 2002-03 respectively." 7. As stated earlier the assessee had filed the details of the software engineers employed during the years under consideration containing the names of the employees, designation and date of joining. Further, in the same list the details of total number of employees joined during both the assessment years, number of employees without supervisory roles, workmen joined, number of supervisors joined and workmen joined and relieved during the years under consideration. A cursory perusal of this list shows that the assessee had claimed deduction in respect of employees, who had joined as engineers in their respective field such as systems engineer, test engineer, software design engineer, IC design engineer, lead engineer etc. A cursory perusal of those lists establishes that the assessee had claimed deduction in respect of the engineers employed not in the category of supervisory control. All these details were filed before the AO during assessment proceedings. These facts were not properly considered by the AO. Further, from the order of the CIT(A), it is seen that he had taken note of the not....

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....of article or thing, there shall, subject to the conditions specified in sub-section (2)m be allowed a deduction of an amount equal to thirty per cent of additional wages paid to the new regular workmen employed by the assessee in the previous year for three assessment years including the assessment year relevant to the previous year in which such employment is provided. 27. A reading of the above sub-section would clearly show that the deduction is given on profits and gains derived from industrial undertaking engaged in manufacture of production of article or thing. It is only for quantification of the amount that 30% is applied. In our opinion the deduction is very much linked to the profits of the undertaking. We are therefore unable to accept this line of argument taken by the counsel. In the result, we hold that assessee is not eligible for deduction u/s.80JJAA of the Act, in respect of its units 2 , 3 and 4. However, denial of such claim in respect of unit-1, where it was not claiming any deduction, in our opinion is incorrect. We, therefore set aside the orders of authorities below for the limited purpose of quantifying the eligible deduction u/s.80JJA in respect of Unit....

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....s incorrect. He therefore reallocated such interest in the proportion of the turnover of unit-1 and unit-2. Result was that from the profit of unit-2, where assessee was claiming deduction 10A of the Act, went down by Rs. 2,74,32,938/- whereas profit of unit-1 on which assessee was not claiming any deduction went up by a corresponding amount. Deduction u/s.10A of the Act was recomputed based on the above figures. 30. When a proposal on the above line was put before the assessee, it chose to move the DRP. Argument of the assessee before the DRP was that it had raised the loan facility of Rs. 69 crores on 31.07.2006 and this loan was entirely utilised for rolling over an earlier loan taken for construction of the campus where unit-1 was functioning. According to the assessee, reallocation made by the AO was not justified. Assessee also argued that its unit-2 at whitefield had commenced production only in April 1st, 2005. Therefore, as per the assessee it could not be stated that the campus construction was intended for the said unit. However the DRP was not impressed. DRP held that AO was justified in reallocating the cost. 33. Now before us, Ld. AR strongly assailing the order....

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.... Rs. 27,71,10,751/-, 27,04,556/-, Rs. 29,000,627/- from export turnover while computing the deduction available to it u/s.10A of the Act. Alternative pleading taken by the assessee is that if these amounts are deducted from export turnover, it needs to be reduced from the total turnover also while computing the deduction u/s.10A of the Act. 37. We have heard the rival contentions on the above two grounds. As regards pleading of the assessee that the above expenditures ought not be deducted from the export turnover, we are unable to accede. This is because the definition of the term 'export turnover' in Explanation (iv) to Section 10A of the Act, does not give room for such an interpretation as sought by the assessee. However, in so far as its alternate ground that items which are deducted from export turnover have to be reduced from total turnover also while computing deduction u/s.10A of the Act, we are inclined to accept, in view of the judgment of Hon'ble jurisdictional High Court in the case of Tata Elxsi Ltd v. CIT [349 ITR 98]. Accordingly, we direct the AO to rework the deduction u/s.10A of the Act, after reducing the amounts which are deducted from export turnover from t....

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....u/s.10A of the Act was undertaking specific and not owner specific. According to him, Chandigarh unit came to the assessee through a slump sale was not disputed by any of the lower authorities. Ld. AR submitted that a slump sale could not be considered as a reconstruction of business, where there was transfer of plant and machinery. In this regard reliance was placed on the judgment of Hon'ble Bombay High Court in the case of CIT v. Sonata Software Ltd, [343 ITR 397]. Per contra Ld. DR supported the orders of the authorities below. 42. We have perused the orders and heard the rival contentions. It is not disputed that the Chandigarh unit came to the assessee through a slump sale. M/s. Virsa had given this undertaking to the assessee as a going concern. That such transaction was a slump sale has not been disputed by any of the lower authorities. It is also not disputed that the said M/s. Virsa was eligible for deduction u/s.10A of the Act and was claiming such deduction in the earlier years for such unit. Hon'ble Bombay High Court in the case of Sonata Software Ltd, (supra) in a similar situation had held as under : 8. The issue before the court is whether the two requir....

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....ustrial undertaking. The undertaking must continue to carry on the same business though in some altered or varied form. If the alterations and changes are substantial, there would be little scope for describing what emerges as a reconstruction of the business. Thus, for instance, if the ownership of a business or an undertaking changes hands not ostensibly but in reality and effectively, that would not be reconstruction or if the very nature of the business is changed, that again would not be reconstruction. On the other hand, reorganization of the business on sounder lines or alter ations in the mode or method or scope of the activities of the business or in its personnel or infusion of new blood in the management or control of the business which may even be by some changes in the constitution of persons interested in the undertaking would certainly be no more than reconstruction of the business if it is substantially the same business carried on by substantially the same persons." Reconstruction, the Division Bench held, means that substantially the same business is carried on and substantially the same persons carry it on (page 671) : "The emphasis, it will be ....

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....f plant and machinery cannot be applied. According to the Tribunal, the benefit of section 10A attaches to the undertaking and not to the assessee which owns the undertaking. The benefit of section 10A was held to have attached itself to the STP unit of the software division which was owned by IOCL till October 19, 1994, and it was owned by the assessee subsequent to that date. What is material, according to the Tribunal, is not who owns the undertaking but whether the undertaking is entitled to the benefit available under section 10A. As regards the issue of transfer by IOCL to the assessee, the Tribunal noted that section 10A(9) was substituted by the Finance Act, 2000, with effect from April 1, 2002. Section 10A(9) provided that where during any previous year the ownership or beneficial interest in an undertaking of the business is transferred by any means, the deduction under sub-section (1) shall not be allowed to the assessee for the assessment year relevant to such previous year and the subsequent years. The Tribunal noted that if a transfer between IOCL and the assessee were to be effected after April 1, 2001, that would result in the undertaking being disentitled to the be....

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....l Cost 4,795,125,058 Operating Profit 406,611,939 Add: Other income 271,589 Less:Loss on sale of fixed assets 2,659,506 Less: Capital loss written off Less: Int on loan from bank Less Donation 12,795,192 61,521,005 882,708 329.025.117 Net Profit Operating Profit/Total Cost 8.48% Document 2Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\inetpub\vhosts\taxmanagementindia.com\httpdocs\python_image_text_project\google\direct_extract_text.py", line 19, in from google_doc_api import process_single_document File "C:\inetpub\vhosts\taxmanagementindia.com\httpdocs\python_image_text_project\google\google_doc_api.py", line 345 elif mime_type in ["image/gif"]: IndentationError: expected an indented block after 'if' statement on line 341 Document 3 Sr. Name of Company No. OP/TC (FY 2006- 07) 1 Mindtree Ltd 16.90% 2 SIP Technologies & Exports Ltd 13.90% 3 Accel Transmatic Ltd (Seg.) 21.11% 4 Avani Cimcon Technologies Ltd 52.59% 5 Celestial Labs Ltd 58.35% 9 Datamatics Ltd 1.38% 7 E-Zest Solutions Ltd 36.12% 8 Flextronics Software Systems Ltd (Seg.) 25.3....