2021 (2) TMI 1208

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....he Revenue : Shri Chandra Vijay ORDER PER SAKTIJIT DEY. J.M. The captioned appeal has been filed by the assessee challenging the final assessment order dated 28th September 2017, passed under section 143(3) r/w section 144C(13) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (for short "the Act") for the assessment year 2013-14, in pursuance to the directions of the Dispute Resolution Panel-2 (for short "the....

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....ee earned revenue of Rs. 22,79,88,050, from providing software development services through its Associated Enterprises (AE). The assessee benchmarked the aforesaid transaction by applying comparable uncontrolled price (CUP) method. The Transfer Pricing Officer, however, did not accept the benchmarking of the assessee. Noticing that in assessment year 2010-11, CUP method followed by the assessee wa....

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....rit in assessee's objections. 4. The learned Counsel for the assessee submitted, Infobeans Technologies Ltd. being engaged in diversified activities and the segmental results not being available in public domain, cannot be compared to a routine software development service provider like the assessee. In support of such contention, learned Counsel for the assessee relied upon the following decis....

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....ng, service now, UX and UI, customized software, storage and virtualization, data mining, data modeling, statistical analysis, machine learning technique, etc. Considering the fact that Infobeans Technologies Ltd. is engaged in diversified activities and segmental details are not available, the Tribunal, Pune Bench, in Pubmatic India Pvt. Ltd. (supra) has held that this company cannot be treated a....