Assessee, a UK based company, which is engaged in providing software development services and sales & marketing support services to its group entities. It had obtained certain receipts from various customers in India which was sale proceeds of off-shelf software and offered same to tax in India as Royalty Income. During assessment proceedings, assessee claimed that receipts from sale of software had been wrongly offered to tax as income from royalty. The Assessing Officer assessed same as Royalty Income. CIT(A) affirmed the order of the Assessing Officer. On appeal the Tribunal held that the assessee could not be prevented from raising a claim that receipts from sale of software were not chargeable to Indian Taxation merely because such income was wrongly offered in ROI and which was not revised. However, since nature and character of sale proceeds qua underlying evidences did not appear to have been verified by Assessing Officer at any stage of proceedings, matter was to be remitted back to file of Assessing Officer for fresh determination.(AY. 2020-21)
AppDynamics International Ltd. v. ACIT (2024) 205 ITD 496 (Delhi) (Trib.)
S. 9(1)(vi) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Royalty-Fees for technical services-Sale of software-Wrongly offered as income in the return-Return was not revised-Not chargeable to tax-Matter remanded to the file of Assessing Officer to verify the facts-DTAA-India-UK [S.9(1)(vii), 139(5), Art. 13]
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