Assessing Officer's claim on Permanent Establishment's business risks lacks specific FAR analysis; coordinate benches disapprove generalization.

Income accrued or deemed to accrues/arise in India - Permanent Establishment (PE) - While the Assessing Officer has proceeded on sweeping generalizations about the risks assumed by the PE but there is no specific FAR analysis which could support that the agent’s remuneration not being an arm’s length remuneration, and the Assessing Officer has proceeded on the basis that all the business risks of the assessee (i.e. the foreign company) are borne by the PE as PE is the content provider and responsible for up linking activity. That’s too sweeping a generalization to meet any judicial approval, and, on the same set of findings, the coordinate benches have disapproved the stand of the Assessing Officer. - AT .....

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