Supreme Court of India

M/s. Dit (international Taxation), Mumbai v. M/s. Morgan Stanley & Co.

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Reported as [2007] 8 S.C.R. 52
Bench Dr. Arijit Pasa Yat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.
Decided 9 July 2007

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the ruling is correct in principle B provided that an associated enterprise (that also constitutes a PE) is remunerated on arm's length basis taking into account all the risk-taking functions of the multinational enterprise.

Judgment, page 34

From the headnote

Income Tax Act, 1961: c Section 92-lnterniitional transaction-Computation of income from- Arm's length price-Relevance of-Methods to determine-Authority for Advanced Ruling (AAR)-Permanant Establishment (PE)-Projits attributable to-Morgan Stanley & Co. (MSC) has three main lines of business, namely, securities investments management, investment banking and credit services- MSCO had set up a captive Business Process Out sourcing (BPO) in India, namely, Morgan Stanley Advantage Services (MSAS)-MSCo accordingly made an application seeking an Advance Ruling as to whether it was having \. a

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