Permanent establishment burden defeats taxation of offshore supply receipts where no India presence is established.

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....On identical facts, the ITAT followed its earlier order and held that the Revenue had failed to establish any permanent establishment in India for the assessee in relation to offshore supply under the ONGC contract. As a result, the offshore supply receipts could not be taxed on a presumptive basis under section 44BB, and the addition was deleted. The Tribunal also noted that the DRP had found the facts unchanged from earlier years; interest and penalty grounds were treated as consequential.....