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2018 (12) TMI 1609
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.... is a company engaged in the business of providing contract Software Development Services (SWD Services) and providing Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) to its holding company Evolving Systems USA as a captive service provider. The transaction of rendering software development services to holding company was a transaction with an Associated Enterprise (AE) and was therefore an international transaction. As per the provisions of Sec.92 of the Act, income from international transaction has to be computed having regard to Arm's Length Price (ALP). It is not in dispute between the Assessee and the revenue that the Transaction Net Margin Method (TNMM) was the Most Appropriate Method (MAM) for determination of ALP and that the profit....
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....ng Cost Rs13,26,59,53 9 Arm's Length Price - 127.56% of Operating Cost Rs16,92,18,17 5 Price Received Rs15,52,11,66 3 Shortfall being adjustment u/s. 92CA Rs1,40,06,512 4. The difference between the price charged by the Assessee and the ALP determined by the TPO viz., Rs. 1,40,06,512/- was added to the total income by the AO in his drat assessment order as addition on account of shortfall being adjustment u/s.92CA of the Act. 5. The Assessee filed objections to the draft assessment order by the AO before the Disputes Resolution Panel (DRP). The DRP in its directions held that ICRA Techno Analytics Ltd. and Datamatics Global Services Ltd. are not comparable with the Assessee and were liable to be excluded from the ....
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....hich the Assessee seeks to exclude from the list of comparable companies chosen by the TPO viz., Infosys Ltd., Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. and Persistent Systems Ltd., were considered by the ITAT Delhi Bench in the case of Agilis Information Technologies India (P) Ltd. Vs. ACIT (2018) 89 taxmann.com 440 (Delhi-Trib.) for the same AY 2012-13. In this regard it was submitted that the functional profile of the Assessee is same as that of the Assessee in the case of Agilis Information Technologies India (P) Ltd., is identical in as much as the said company was also involved in providing SWD services to its AE and the TPO had chosen 16 comparable companies out of which 6 companies chosen by the TPO in the case of the Assessee for the purpose o....
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.... Tribunal's order. The Tribunal accepted that Infosys Ltd. is a giant risk taking company and engaged in development and sale of software products and also owns intangible assets and therefore not comparable with a software development service provider such as the Assessee in that case. (b) Larsen & Tourbro Infotech Ltd., was excluded from the list of comparable companies by relying on the decision of the Delhi Bench of ITAT in the case of Saxo India (P) Ltd. Vs. ACIT (2016) 67 taxmann.com 155 (Del- Tri). The discussion is contained in paragraphs 4.8 to 4.10 of the Tribunal's order. The Tribunal held that L & T Infotech Ltd., was a software product company and segmental information on SWD services was not available. The Tribunal al....
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.... brought to the notice of the TPO. Attention of the TPO was invited to the directors report to the shareholders at page ii of the annual report 2012, wherein the Directors have informed the shareholders that the company continued in its journey to be innovators and leaders in the fields of location based services related geo platforms and advanced survey techniques. There is no segmental reporting because it is stated in the annual report that this company is only in one segment viz., GIS based services and therefore there is no requirement of segmental reporting. It was also submitted that this company owns substantial intangibles equivalent to 10.42% of its total turnover. 11. The TPO however has regarded this company as a comparable c....
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....here is no basis for the TPO to conclude that this company is predominantly into software development services. The presence of intangible assets is indicative of the fact that this company is not in software development services business. The TPO has overlooked this aspect and proceeded on the basis that the presence of intangible assets would not be significant. Rule 10B(2) of the Income Tax Rules, 1962 (Rules) specifically provides that for the purposes of sub-rule (1) of Rule 10B, the comparability of an international transaction with an uncontrolled transaction shall be judged with reference to the following, namely:- (a) the specific characteristics of the property transferred or services provided in either transaction; ....