Eaton Fluid Power Ltd v. ACIT (Pune) (Trib) , www.itatonline.org

S.92C: Transfer pricing – Arm’s length price- The TPO can not sit in judgement over the business model of the assessee and determine the ALP of the transactions with AEs at Nil .

Allowing the appeal of the assesse the Tribunal held that ; international transactions of information technology services availed has to be aggregated with other transactions being intrinsically linked to other international transactions undertaken by the assessee during the year and the same has to be benchmarked applying internal TNMM method as in the case of other international transactions. Further, we also reverse the order of TPO in holding that the assessee has not availed any services in view of various documents filed by the assessee and also certificate of Eaton China, which was filed during the course of TP proceedings evidencing not only the availment of services but also the basis of cost for such services. Similar services were availed by other Eaton group entities from Eaton China and its certificate that the same has also charged at the same rates as charged to the assessee. In the entirety of the above said facts and circumstances, we reverse the order of TPO / Assessing Officer in taking the value of international transactions of Information Technology Services availed at Nil and delete the adjustment made.( ITA No. 45/Pun/2013, dt. 12.03.2018)(AY. 2008-09)