Transfer Pricing Dispute: Authorities Incorrectly Applied CUP Method, Ignored Yield Spread Approach for Corporate Guarantee Comparables.

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....TP Adjustment - corporate guarantee provided on behalf of Associated Enterprises - These two kinds of guarantees are materially different, as has been held by a series of co-ordinate bench decisions. The right comparable, for application of CUP in this case, would have been the consideration for which corporate counter guarantees are issued, for the benefit of an associated enterprise, to a bank. In any event, once we come to the conclusion that the yield spread approach adopted by the assessee has been wrongly rejected, there is no need to deal with this clearly defective application of CUP method. No such inputs have been referred to, or relied upon, by the authorities below. - AT....