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2017 (4) TMI 1487

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..... is a subsidiary of Key Managing Group Inc., USA. It is engaged in the business of rendering software development services to its Associated Enterprises (AEs) and non AEs. Return of income for the assessment year 2011-12 was filed on 29/11/2012 declaring total loss of Rs. 1,06,99,198/-.The assessee-company also reported the following international transactions in its Form 3CA/3CA: i. Software development services ... Rs. 22,93,93,247/- ii. Reimbursement of expenses ... Rs. 8,97,06,639/- iii. Commission paid ... Rs. 4,03,35,732/- It is submitted that KMG USA does extensive marketing and secure the contracts with third parties and outsources the same to KMG India on Back to Back basis. The assessee-company serves as an execution cen .....

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..... e development service income is less than Rs.l crore  were excluded.   * Companies who have less than 75% of the revenue as export sales were excluded.   * Companies who have more than 25% related party transactions of the sales were  excluded.   * Companies whose employee cost to revenues is less than 25% of the revenues  were excluded.   * Companies having different financial year (i.e., not March 31, 2010) or data of the  company does not fall within 12 month period i.e. 01-04-2010 to 31-03-2011,  were rejected.   * Companies who have persistent losses for the last three years upto and including  FY 2010-11 were excluded. Companies that are functionally different from the t .....

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..... passed draft assessment order dated 17/03/2015 u/s 143(3) r.w.s. 144C of the Act incorporating the above TP adjustments. 4. Being aggrieved, assessee-company filed objections before the DRP contending inter alia that very reference by the AO to TPO for the purpose of determining ALP is not valid in law as the AO failed to demonstrate as to why it was necessary and expedient to do so. It was further contended that since the assessee-company had entered into arrangement with AE on back to back billing there was no question of any ALP in the transaction and also challenging rejection of CUP method adopted by the assessee-company by TPO and rejection of internal comparable and adopting of in-operative filters. The assessee-company also sought .....

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..... eration received from third  parties to the Appellant.   ii. The learned TPO has erred in rejecting the TP analysis of the Appellant under CUP  Method.   iii. The learned TPO has erred in adopting TNMM as the most appropriate method for  determining the ALP of international transactions;   iv. The learned TPO has erred in rejecting the alternate analysis of the Appellant  considering internal comparables under TNMM and selecting external companies as  comparables even though they are not comparable to the Appellant. Most of the  comparables selected by the TPO deserve to be rejected. The learned TPO has also  not considered the additional comparables proposed by the Appellant during th .....

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..... by AE, assesseecompany pays commission at 10% for offshare services and 25% on onsite revenue services. Thus, revenue earned by the assessee-company from its AE is only pass through income and they are not an international transaction. It is the contention of the learned counsel for the assessee that TPO had not considered the submissions of the assessee-company. DRP rejected the assessee-company's contentions without assigning reasons whatsoever. The assessee also contends that the TPO as well as DRP had not assigned any reason as to why CUP method is not most appropriate method in the nature of transactions assesseecompany had with its AE. It was also submitted that TPO has not considered the alternative submissions of the assesseecompany .....

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