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2015 Supreme(Del) 409

SANJIV KHANNA, V.KAMESWAR RAO
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications India (P. ) Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
Commissioner of Income-tax –III – Respondent


Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant:N. Venkataraman, Sr. Advocate, Deepak Chopra, Harpreet Singh Ajmani, Advocates.
For the Respondent:G.C. Srivastava, Rohit Madan, P. Roychaudhri, Ruchir Bhatia, Akash Vajpai, Advocates.

Judgment

Sanjiv Khanna, J.

1. This common judgment will dispose of these appeals and cross-appeals by the assessee and the Revenue in which one of the primary issue that emanates for consideration is whether advertisement, marketing and sale promotion expenditure ('AMP', for short) beyond and exceeding the 'bright line' is a separate and independent international transaction undertaken by the resident Indian assessee towards brand building for the brand owner, i.e. the foreign Associated Enterprise ('AE', for short). Other core issues pertain to aspects of arm's length pricing of international transactions.

2. The details of appeals and cross-appeals by the assessees and the Revenue and the assessment years involved are as under:

Assessment year

ITA No.

Assessee

Cross Appeal by Revenue

2008-09

16/2014

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications India Pvt. Ltd/Sony Mobile Communication India Pvt. Ltd. Now known as, Sony India Ltd.

155/2014

2008-09

70/2014

Discovery Communications India

218/2014

2006-07

521/2013

Canon India Pvt. Ltd.

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