Assessing Officer without dealing with objections raised against reopening of assessment transferred its case to Transfer Pricing Officer (TPO) under section 92CA who further called upon assessee to furnish information in terms of sections 92D and 92E. The Assessee filed writ petition against reference of its case by Assessing officer to TPO without dealing with its objections against reopening. Single Bench directed assessee to participate in statutory adjudication mechanism and dismissed writ petition. Assessee filed an writ appeal challenging said order of Single Judge. Dismissing the appeal the Court held that finding rendered passed by Single Judge was an appropriate procedure to be adopted and same was to be upheld.
PPN Power Generating Company (P) Ltd. v. CIT (2021) 277 Taxman 240 / 200 DTR 382 / 320 CTR 268 (Mad.)(HC)
S. 148 : Reassessment-Transfer pricing-Objection not disposed of against reassessment notice-Single judge directed the Assessee to participate in adjudicating mechanism-Order of single judge is affirmed in appeal. [S. 92C, 92D, 92E, 148, Art. 226]