Wednesday 17 December 2014

Analysis of section 92 to understand Transfer Pricing .


92
·         Any income arising from an international transaction or specified domestic transaction shall be computed having regard to the arm’s length price.    
·         For the removal of doubts, it is hereby clarified that the allowance for any expense or interest arising from an international transaction shall also be determined having regard to the arm’s length price
·        
It also include allocation of cost
·         Not applicable for reducing the declared income by tax payer.
92A
Meaning of Associated enterprises. 
(a)  shares carrying not less than twenty-six per cent
(b)  loan advanced by one enterprise to the other enterprise constitutes not less than fifty-one per cent of the book value of the total assets
(c)  guarantees not less than ten per cent of the total borrowings
(d)  more than half of the board of directors or members of the governing board
(e)  more than half of the directors or members of the governing board,
(f)   manufacture or processing of goods or articles or business carried out by one enterprise is wholly dependent.
(g)  ninety per cent or more of the raw materials and consumables
(h)  Influencing the pricing.
(i)    where one enterprise is controlled by an individual, the other enterprise is also controlled by such individual or his relative
(j)    where one enterprise is controlled by a Hindu undivided family, the other enterprise is controlled by a member of such Hindu undivided family
(k)  where one enterprise is a firm, association of persons or body of individuals, the other enterprise holds not less than ten per cent interest in such firm

92B
Meaning of International Transaction
(a)  purchase, sale, transfer, lease or use of tangible property
(b)  purchase, sale, transfer, lease or use of intangible property
(c)  capital financing, including any type of long-term or short-term borrowing, lending or guarantee
(d)  provision of services, including provision of market research, market development, marketing management, administration, technical service, repairs, design, consultation, agency, scientific research, legal or accounting service;
(e)  transaction of business restructuring or reorganisation, entered into by an enterprise with an associated enterprise
92B(ii)
Meaning of  Intangible Property
(a)  trademarks, trade names, brand names, logo
(b)   process patents, patent applications, technical documentation such as laboratory notebooks, technical know-how;
(c)  literary works and copyrights, musical compositions, copyrights, maps, engravings
(d)  proprietary computer software, software copyrights, automated databases, and integrated circuit masks and masters;
(e)  industrial design, product patents, trade secrets, engineering drawing and schema-tics, blueprints, proprietary documentation
(f)   customer lists, customer contracts, customer relationship, open purchase orders;
(g)  favourable supplier, contracts, licence agreements, franchise agreements, non-compete agreements;
(h)  trained and organised work force, employment agreements, union contracts;
(i)    leasehold interest, mineral exploitation rights, easements, air rights, water rights;
(j)    institutional goodwill, professional practice goodwill, personal goodwill of professional, celebrity goodwill, general business going concern value;
(k)  methods, programmes, systems, procedures, campaigns, surveys, studies, forecasts, estimates, customer lists, or technical data
(l)    any other similar item that derives its value from its intellectual content rather than its physical attributes
92C
Computation of arm length Price
Select most appropriate method
(a) comparable uncontrolled price method;
(b) resale price method;
(c) cost plus method;
(d) profit split method;
(e) transactional net margin method;
(f) such other method as may be prescribedby the Board

      where more than one price is determined by the most appropriate method, the arm’s length price shall be taken to be the arithmetical mean of such prices:
       New Clause: that where more than one price is determined by the most appropriate method, the arm’s length price in relation to an international transaction or specified domestic transaction undertaken on or after the 1st day of April, 2014, shall be computed in such manner as may be prescribed and accordingly the first and second proviso shall not apply.

92D
Documentation
92E
Report from CA.



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