Court Rules CUP Method More Suitable Than TNMM for Determining Arm's Length Price in Transfer Pricing Case.

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....TP Adjustment - 'arranged' pricing' - TNMM method or CUP method - the superiority of any particular method to arrive at the ALP is ruled out.The TNMM (Transactional Net Margin Method) requires establishing comparability level at a broad functional level. It requires comparison between net margin derived from operation of the uncontrolled parties and net margin derived by an associated enterprise on similar operation. The net profit margin earned by an associate enterprise is compared with net profit margin of uncontrolled transactions to arrive at arm's length price. - Thus CUP method was found to be more appropriate - HC....