2023 (10) TMI 561

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....Whether the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal [in short, "Tribunal"] has misdirected itself on facts and in law in excluding the comparable Onward Technologies Limited [in short, "OTL"] while benchmarking the engineering, technical and inspection segment, in the course of exercising its powers under Section 254 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 [in short, "Act"]?" 3. With the consent of the counsel for the parties, the appeal is taken up for final hearing and disposal, at this stage itself. 4. Briefly, the record shows that the Transfer Pricing Officer (TPO) had accepted OTL as a comparable, which was embedded in the appellant/assessee's transfer pricing study report. 4.1 The record also shows that the appellant/assessee had carried the matter in....

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....aged in the similar business of technical consultancy and engineering services deriving revenue worth 57% from the consultancy segment. (ii) The Ld. CIT(A) has erred in concluding that the comparable namely. M/s L&T Rambo// Consulting Engineers Ltd. is fact that the revenue of this comparable for F.Y. 2008-09 is from Engineering Services Consultancy only, as per the available financials and the annual report of this comparable. (iii) The Ld. CIT(A) should have also removed the comparable namely M/s. Onward Technology Ltd as this comparable can also be considered to be functionally different since, it is predominantly in automobile engineering segment. If the assessee is allowed to remove M/s Mitcon Consultancy Services and M/s L&T Ram....