CIT v. Everest Kento Cylinders Ltd.

378 ITR 57High Court2015#258 most cited

What is CIT v. Everest Kento Cylinders Ltd. authority for?

Corporate guarantee fees are subject to transfer pricing rules, and adjustments may be needed to account for differences between corporate guarantees and more liquid bank guarantees when determining arm's length price.

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CIT v. Everest Kento Cylinders Ltd. · corporate guarantee · transfer pricing · section 92B · section 92CA · arm's length price · associated enterprises · benchmarking · bank guarantee · discount · 378 ITR 57

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Issues it is cited on

Judgments citing CIT v. Everest Kento Cylinders Ltd.

M/S Punjab Chemicals & Crop. Protection Ltd., Chandigarh vs. Addl. CIT, Neac Delhi

The appeal stand partly allowed

ITA 128/CHANDI/2021[2009-10]Status: DisposedITAT Chandigarh22 May 2025AY 2009-10

Bench: Hon’Ble Shri Rajpal Yadav & Hon’Ble Shri Manoj Kumar Aggarwal, Am 1. आयकरअपीलसं./ Ita No.127/Chandi/2021 (िनधा"रणवष" / Assessment Year: 2008-09) & 2. आयकरअपीलसं./ Ita No.128/Chandi/2021 (िनधा"रणवष" / Assessment Year: 2009-10) M/S Punjab Chemicals & Crop. Addl. Cit Protection Ltd. Nfac बनाम/ Milestone-18, Ambala-Kalka Road Delhi Vs. Vpo Bhankharpur, Derabassi Distt. Sas Nagar (Mohali), Punjab 140201 "थायीलेखासं./जीआइआरसं./Pan/Gir No. Aaacp-9904-H (अपीलाथ"/Appellant) : (""थ" / Respondent) अपीलाथ"कीओरसे/ Appellant By : Shri Anil Khanna (Ca) – Ld. Ar ""थ"कीओरसे/Respondent By : Ms. Kusum Bansal (Cit) – Ld. Dr सुनवाईकीतारीख/Date Of Hearing : 17-03-2025 घोषणाकीतारीख /Date Of Pronouncement : 22-05-2025 आदेश / O R D E R Manoj Kumar Aggarwal () 1.1 Aforesaid Appeals By Assessee For Assessment Years (Ay) 2008-09 & 2009-10 Is In Second Round Of Litigation Since The Appeal Was Disposed-Off By Tribunal Vide Ita Nos.60/Chd/2013 & Ita No.100/Chd/2013 Common Order Dated 23-07-2018 For Ays 2008-09 & 2009-10 Wherein Few Of The Issues Were Restored Back To Lower

For Appellant: Shri Anil Khanna (CA) – Ld. ARFor Respondent: Ms. Kusum Bansal (CIT) – Ld. DR
Section 14ASection 154Section 36(1)(iii)

…efore, this transaction would be an international transaction for which Arm’s Length Price is to be computed. Considering various judicial decisions holding the field including the decision of Hon’ble Bombay High Court in CIT vs. Everest Kento Cylinders Ltd. (58 Taxmann.com 254) wherein Hon’ble Court has upheld charging of rate of 0.5% by the assessee, we direct Ld. AO to compute the ALP of these transactions by accepting rate of 0.5%. The corresponding grounds stand partly allowed. 7. No other ground has been urged by Ld. AR before us. The appeal stand partly allowed. 8. Assessment Year 2009-10 In this year, th…

M/S Punjab Chemicals & Crop. Protection Ltd., Chandigarh vs. Addl. CIT, Neac Delhi

The appeal stand partly allowed

ITA 127/CHANDI/2021[2008-09]Status: DisposedITAT Chandigarh22 May 2025AY 2008-09

Bench: Hon’Ble Shri Rajpal Yadav & Hon’Ble Shri Manoj Kumar Aggarwal, Am 1. आयकरअपीलसं./ Ita No.127/Chandi/2021 (िनधा"रणवष" / Assessment Year: 2008-09) & 2. आयकरअपीलसं./ Ita No.128/Chandi/2021 (िनधा"रणवष" / Assessment Year: 2009-10) M/S Punjab Chemicals & Crop. Addl. Cit Protection Ltd. Nfac बनाम/ Milestone-18, Ambala-Kalka Road Delhi Vs. Vpo Bhankharpur, Derabassi Distt. Sas Nagar (Mohali), Punjab 140201 "थायीलेखासं./जीआइआरसं./Pan/Gir No. Aaacp-9904-H (अपीलाथ"/Appellant) : (""थ" / Respondent) अपीलाथ"कीओरसे/ Appellant By : Shri Anil Khanna (Ca) – Ld. Ar ""थ"कीओरसे/Respondent By : Ms. Kusum Bansal (Cit) – Ld. Dr सुनवाईकीतारीख/Date Of Hearing : 17-03-2025 घोषणाकीतारीख /Date Of Pronouncement : 22-05-2025 आदेश / O R D E R Manoj Kumar Aggarwal () 1.1 Aforesaid Appeals By Assessee For Assessment Years (Ay) 2008-09 & 2009-10 Is In Second Round Of Litigation Since The Appeal Was Disposed-Off By Tribunal Vide Ita Nos.60/Chd/2013 & Ita No.100/Chd/2013 Common Order Dated 23-07-2018 For Ays 2008-09 & 2009-10 Wherein Few Of The Issues Were Restored Back To Lower

For Appellant: Shri Anil Khanna (CA) – Ld. ARFor Respondent: Ms. Kusum Bansal (CIT) – Ld. DR
Section 14ASection 154Section 36(1)(iii)

…efore, this transaction would be an international transaction for which Arm’s Length Price is to be computed. Considering various judicial decisions holding the field including the decision of Hon’ble Bombay High Court in CIT vs. Everest Kento Cylinders Ltd. (58 Taxmann.com 254) wherein Hon’ble Court has upheld charging of rate of 0.5% by the assessee, we direct Ld. AO to compute the ALP of these transactions by accepting rate of 0.5%. The corresponding grounds stand partly allowed. 7. No other ground has been urged by Ld. AR before us. The appeal stand partly allowed. 8. Assessment Year 2009-10 In this year, th…

Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax Ltu Circle 1 Chennai, Chennai vs. E I D Parry India Limited, Chennai

In the result, all the appeals filed by the assessee are partly allowed for statistical purposes and the appeal filed by the Revenue is dismissed

ITA 3251/CHNY/2024[2012-13]Status: DisposedITAT Chennai21 Apr 2025AY 2012-13

Bench: Shri George George Kand Shri S.R. Raghunathait(Tp)A. Nos.:105, 106, 107/Chny/2024 & Ita No.3113/Chny/2024 िनधा"रण वष"/Assessment Years: 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 & 2014-15 M/S. E.I.D. Parry India Ltd., The Deputy Commissioner Of No. 234, Dare House, Nsc Vs. Income Tax, Bose Road, Parrys Corner, Large Taxpayer Unit -1, Chennai 600 001. Chennai. [Pan: Aaace-0702-C] (अपीलाथ"/Appellant) (""यथ"/Respondent)

For Appellant: Shri R. Vijayaraghavan, AdvocateFor Respondent: Shri A. Sasikumar, CIT
Section 143(1)Section 143(2)Section 250Section 92BSection 92C

…ia) Ltd. reported in [2021] 430 ITR 298 (Mad) and the decision of the Hon’ble High IT(TP)A Nos.105 to 107/Chny/2024 & ITA No. 3113 & 3251/Chny/24 Court of Bombay in the case of Everest Kanto Cylinder Ltd. v. ACIT reported in [2014] 52 taxmann.com 395 (Bom.) & 378 ITR 57, the Tribunal directed the Assessing Officer to restrict the TP adjustment @ 0.5% of the guarantee value. Accordingly, by following the above decision of the Tribunal, we restrict the corporate guarantee commission to 0.5% of guarantee value. Therefore, the ground raised by the assessee for all the assessment years under consideration is partly al…

M/S. Eid Parry India Ltd., Chennai vs. DCIT, Ltu-1, Chennai

In the result, all the appeals filed by the assessee are partly allowed for statistical purposes and the appeal filed by the Revenue is dismissed

ITA 3113/CHNY/2024[2014-15]Status: DisposedITAT Chennai21 Apr 2025AY 2014-15

Bench: Shri George George Kand Shri S.R. Raghunathait(Tp)A. Nos.:105, 106, 107/Chny/2024 & Ita No.3113/Chny/2024 िनधा"रण वष"/Assessment Years: 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 & 2014-15 M/S. E.I.D. Parry India Ltd., The Deputy Commissioner Of No. 234, Dare House, Nsc Vs. Income Tax, Bose Road, Parrys Corner, Large Taxpayer Unit -1, Chennai 600 001. Chennai. [Pan: Aaace-0702-C] (अपीलाथ"/Appellant) (""यथ"/Respondent)

For Appellant: Shri R. Vijayaraghavan, AdvocateFor Respondent: Shri A. Sasikumar, CIT
Section 143(1)Section 143(2)Section 250Section 92BSection 92C

…ia) Ltd. reported in [2021] 430 ITR 298 (Mad) and the decision of the Hon’ble High IT(TP)A Nos.105 to 107/Chny/2024 & ITA No. 3113 & 3251/Chny/24 Court of Bombay in the case of Everest Kanto Cylinder Ltd. v. ACIT reported in [2014] 52 taxmann.com 395 (Bom.) & 378 ITR 57, the Tribunal directed the Assessing Officer to restrict the TP adjustment @ 0.5% of the guarantee value. Accordingly, by following the above decision of the Tribunal, we restrict the corporate guarantee commission to 0.5% of guarantee value. Therefore, the ground raised by the assessee for all the assessment years under consideration is partly al…

3F Industries Limited, Tadepalligudem vs. Assistant Commisssioner of Income Tax, Circle-1, Rajahmundry

In the result, appeal filed by the assessee is allowed

ITA 275/VIZ/2024[2020-21]Status: DisposedITAT Visakhapatnam30 Oct 2024AY 2020-21

Bench: Shri Duvvuru Rl Reddy, Hon’Ble & Shri S Balakrishnan, Hon’Bleआयकरअपीलसं./ I.T.A. No.275/Viz/2024 (िनधा"रणवष"/ Assessment Year :2020-21) 3F Industries Limited, Vs. Assistant Commissioner Of P.B. No. 15, Tanuku Road, Income Tax, Tadepalligudem, West Godavari Circle-1, District, Andhra Pradesh-534101. Rajahmundry. Pan: Aaacf2643K (अपीलाथ"/ Appellant) (""यथ"/ Respondent) अपीलाथ"क"ओरसे/ Appellant By : Ms. Suvibha Nolkha, Ar ""याथ"क"ओरसे/ Respondent By : Dr. Satyasai Rath, Cit-Dr सुनवाईक"तारीख/ Date Of Hearing : 07/10/2024 घोषणाक"तारीख/Date Of : 30/10/2024 Pronouncement O R D E R

For Appellant: Ms. Suvibha Nolkha, ARFor Respondent: Dr. Satyasai Rath, CIT-DR
Section 133(6)Section 143(1)Section 143(2)Section 143(3)Section 92B(1)Section 92CSection 92E

…being 1.9% of the corporate guarantee fees. However, in the assessee’s own case in the earlier AYs 2014-15 and 2016-17 by relying on various case laws including the decision of the Hon’ble Bombay High Court in the case of CIT vs. Everest Kanto Ltd reported in 378 ITR 57 this Bench of the Tribunal has held as under: “8. We have heard both the sides and perused the material available on record and the orders of the Ld. Revenue Authorities. We have also gone through the decision of this Tribunal in the assessee’s own case for the AY 2014-15 (ITA No.473/Viz/2017, dated 16/2/2023) wherein the Tribunal, after analyzin…