Telecom tax deductions and transfer pricing: business-linked receipts qualify, while unsupported royalty and marketing adjustments fail.

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....Telecommunication-business tax treatment covers the timing and scope of deductions, revenue expenditure and transfer-pricing adjustments. Profits eligible for the telecommunication undertaking deduction include receipts with an integral business nexus, while Service from India Scheme incentives are excluded; the initial deduction year depends on when the claim was actually allowed. Annual telecom licence fees are subject to statutory amortisation rather than revenue deduction, whereas spectrum-use charges, ordinary advertising costs, subscriber-fraud losses and certain asset-restoration costs may be revenue expenditure. Automated domestic roaming payments and pre-paid distributor discounts do not require tax deduction at source. Brand-royal.........