Assessing Officer Oversteps Limited Scrutiny by Recharacterizing Income Without Approval; Transfer Pricing Verified Correctly by TPO.

Scope of limited scrutiny - AO has not taken any such approval of the concerned authorities - Once, the international transactions reported in Form 3CEB have been verified by the TPO and no adjustments were suggested, it has to be accepted that assessee has reported the transactions correctly. Therefore, then, the purpose of limited scrutiny gets sub-served and the matter should have ended there. However, the Assessing Officer exceeding his jurisdiction has ventured into recheracterizing the nature and character of a particular item of income, which in our view, is beyond the scope of limited scrutiny. - AT .....

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