Tribunal Rules on Transfer Pricing, Interest Rates, and Expense Deductions in Banking and Financial Services Case.

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....The ITAT held as follows: No transfer pricing adjustment warranted on account of correspondent banking activities as the services are reciprocal in nature, hence no markup should be loaded. No adjustment required for marketing and support services relating to external commercial borrowings as the fee/commission income was accepted at arm's length price. Regarding marketing of derivatives, the Tribunal upheld the CIT(A)'s order deleting the adjustment as the TPO disregarded its own show cause notice and relied on undisclosed secret comparables. For interest received from group entities, the ITAT held that applying LIBOR rate was incorrect and instead Fed Fund rate should have been considered for US loan. The single year data adopted by TPO f.........