COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX INTERNATIONAL TAXATION-1, NEW DELHI vs. NCR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED

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ITA - 551 / 2024HC Delhi13 November 20243 pages
For Petitioner: SUNIL KUMAR AGARWAL
AI SummaryDismissed

What did the High Court hold?

The High Court found that the appeal did not raise any substantial question of law. It noted that the ITAT's finding of no permanent establishment was supported by established Supreme Court and High Court precedents.

What were the facts?

The Revenue appealed against an ITAT order that held the assessee did not have a permanent establishment in India. This decision was based on earlier ITAT orders for previous assessment years. The High Court had previously dismissed a similar appeal by the Revenue for those years.

What were the issues?

Whether the assessee had a permanent establishment in India, and if the ITAT erred in its determination based on factual findings and legal precedents.

Which sections of the Income-tax Act were involved?

Section 260A

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$~67 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + ITA 551/2024 & CM APPL. 66096/2024, CM APPL. 66097/2024 COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX INTERNATIONAL TAXATION-1, NEW DELHI

.....Appellant Through: Mr. Sunil Aggarwal, SSC, Mr Shivansh B Pandya, Mr Viplav Acharya, JSCs and Mr Utkarsh Tiwari, Advocate.

versus

NCR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED

.....Respondent Through: Mr. Nageswar Rao, Mr. Parth and Ms. Anshika Agarwal, Advocates

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIBHU BAKHRU

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA

O R D E R %

13.11.2024 1. The Revenue has filed the present appeal under Section 260A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (hereafter the Act) impugning a judgment dated 06.12.2023 passed by the learned Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (hereafter learned ITAT) which in turn was passed in an appeal preferred by the assessee against an order dated 30.11.2022 passed by the Dispute Resolution Panel (hereafter DRP). 2. The principal controversy relates to the question whether the respondent (assessee) had a permanent establishment in India. The learned ITAT had relied on an earlier order passed in ITA No.1756 and 1776/Del/2022 for the assessment year (AY) 2018-19 and 2019-20. This is a digitally signed order. The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 27/03/2026 at 12:04:18

Concededly, the Revenue had preferred an appeal against the orders passed by the learned ITAT in respect to the AY 2018-19 and 2019-20 which also formed the foundation of the impugned order. The said ITA No.410 of 2024 captioned Commissioner of Income Tax, IT-2 New Delhi v. NCR Global Solutions Limited was dismissed by this Court by an order dated 02.08.2024 on the ground that the appeal did not raise any substantial question of law. 3. The Revenue has projected the following question of law in the present case: “Whether on the facts and circumstances of the case, the Hon’ble ITAT erred in holding M/s NCR Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. is not PE of the assessee without appreciating the facts that it is working mainly or wholly on behalf of the assessee and concludes contracts and secures order mainly or exclusively for the assessee?”

4.

The finding of fact rendered by the learned ITAT establishes that the assessee does not have a permanent establishment in India in the form of its subsidiary company. The learned ITAT has also noted that the transactions between the assessee and the subsidiary company were the subject matter of Arm’s Length Price analysis. 5. Undisputedly, the question raised by the assessee are covered by the decisions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of DIT v. Morgan Stanely & Co. : (2007) 292 ITR 416 (SC) as well as the decision in the case of Engineering Analysis Centre of Excellence (P.) Ltd. v. CCIT : [2021] 432 ITR 471 (SC). A similar issue was also been decided by this Court in its earlier decision in Adobe System Incorporated v. DIT : (2016) 7 ITR-OL 364. 6. In view of the above, no substantial question of law arises in the This is a digitally signed order. The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 27/03/2026 at 12:04:18

present appeal and the same is disposed of. 7. The pending applications are also disposed of.

VIBHU BAKHRU, J

SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J NOVEMBER 13, 2024 ns

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