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The brief facts leading to the present appeal are that the Appellant is a company engaged in IT Services and IT Enabled Services which has been accepted by the assessing officers and the Transfer Pricing Officer vide orders for A.Y. 2010-11 and 2011-12, however, for the present year i.e. A.Y. 2013-14, the Transfer Pricing Officer characterized the Appellant as ITES Service Provider only rejecting its claim of providing IT Services in the nature of Software Development which had been accepted for all preceding years. The claim of the assessee before the Dispute Resolution Panel that it had two distinct segments of IT i.e. Software Development and ITES were also rejected and the findings of the TPO were upheld. The Assessee appellant filed an appeal before the ITAT and during the course of hearing on 8th February, 2018, the Appellant was directed by the ITAT to submit additional evidence demonstrating that the appellant was engaged in IT services including software development activity. The hearing on 8th February, 2018 being a Thursday was adjourned to 12th February, 2018, thus, the Appellant was provided one working day before the final hearing on 12 February, 2018 which was a Monday. The present appeal has been filed alongwith an application for additional evidence wherein voluminous evidence has been filed by way of Annexure A-6 to A-13 indicating that the assessee was engaged in software development

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Sec. 92CA of Income Tax Act, 1961—Transfer Pricing— The comparable is functionally dissimilar and in the absence of segmental details of revenue generated from its services of product development and product design services has been rightly excluded by the ITAT. Exclusion of the comparable on the ground that the intangible assets owned by it are significant as compared to the assessee and it has also restructured its business is completely justified both in facts and in law. The fact that the amalgamation has resulted in a higher OP by TC is an aberration and thus, the tribunal has rightly excluded the said comparable. Company functionally dissimilar to the assessee cannot be selected as comparable—PR. CIT Vs. EQUANT SOLUTIONS INDIA PVT. LTD.  [2020] 421 ITR 655 (P&H)

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