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Sec. 92C of Income-tax Act, 1961— Transfer pricing— Where a potential comparable is available in the shape of an uncontrolled transaction of the same assessee, it is likely to have a higher degree of comparability vis-a-vis the comparables identified amongst the uncontrolled transactions of third parties. The underlying object behind the computation of the ALP of an international transaction is to find out the profit which such enterprise would have earned if the transaction had been with some third party instead of related party- internal cases constitute good comparable only if other things between the transactions with AEs and non-AEs are similar, such as, type of products or services dealt with, geographical locations, quantities sold and timing of sales, etc. Internal TNMM should be applied at the first instance unless the determination under this method becomes difficult, the other issues raised by both the sides emanating from the adoption of external TNMM by the TPO as the most appropriate method have been rendered infructuous and such grounds are, therefore, dismissed as having become academic in nature— Dy. CIT vs. Carraro India (P) Ltd. [2020] 203 TTJ 623 (PUNE)