whether an arrangement lacks commercial substance or not [ Section 97(4) ]

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....cks commercial substance or not, namely:- (i) the period or time for which the arrangement (including operations therein) exists; (ii) the fact of payment of taxes, directly or indirectly, under the arrangement; (iii) the fact that an exit route (including transfer of any activity or business or operations) is provided by the arrangement. Stakeholders raised serious doubts regarding ignoring t....

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....axable revenues in India; the timing of the exit; the continuity of business on such exit. In short, the onus will be on the Revenue to identify the scheme and its dominant purpose. The corporate business purpose of a transaction is evidence of the fact that the impugned transaction is not undertaken as a colourable or artificial device. The stronger the evidence of a device, the stronger the corp....