Court Upholds Transactional Net Margin Method for Royalty Transaction; Profit Split Method Deemed Unsuitable for Unique Contributions.

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....TP adjustment - MAM selection - method used for benchmarking the royalty transaction - It may be true that the assessee aggregated payment of royalty with the transaction of manufacturing as it was closely linked and adopted transactional net marginal method but that does not mean that the transactions are so interrelated that they cannot be evaluated separately for applying profit split method. Further, the assessee does not make any unique contribution to the transaction, hence profit split method in this case cannot be applied. - transactional net marginal method is the most appropriate method - AT....