COURT: | Supreme Court |
CORAM: | Adarsh Kumar Goel J, Navin Sinha J, Rohinton Fali Nariman J. |
SECTION(S): | 147, 148, 9 |
GENRE: | Domestic Tax, International Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | Arms length price, Permanent Establishment, Reopening of assessment, Transfer Pricing |
COUNSEL: | Parag Tripathi |
DATE: | March 14, 2018 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | March 24, 2018 (Date of publication) |
AY: | - |
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CITATION: | |
S. 148: The AO is not entitled to issue a reopening notice only on the basis that the foreign company has a permanent establishment (PE) in India if the transactions in respect of which it is alleged that there has been an escapement of income had already been disclosed by the Indian subsidiary and found by the Transfer Pricing Officer (TPO) to be at arm's length |
In the judgment of this Court dated 24th October, 2017 in Assistant Director of Income Tax-I, New Delhi v. M/s. E-Funds IT Solution Inc., Civil Appeal NO.6082 of 2015 and connected matters, it has been held that once arm’s length principle has been satisfied, there can be no further profit attributable to a person even if it has a permanent establishment in India. Since the impugned notice for the reassessment is based only on the allegation that the appellant(s) has permanent establishment in India, the notice cannot be sustained once arm’s length price procedure has been followed
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