Head Office Expenditure

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..... premises outside India used for the purposes of the business or profession; (b) salary, wages, annuity, pension, fees, bonus, commission, gratuity, perquisites or profits in lieu of or in addition to salary, whether paid or allowed to any employee or other person employed in, or managing the affairs of, any office outside India; (c) travelling by any employee or other person employed in, or m .....

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..... ard to the fact that foreign companies operating through branches in India sometimes try to reduce incidence of tax in India by inflating their claims in respect of the head office expenses. In other words, section 44C seeks to impose a ceiling/restriction on head office expenses. However, section 44C contemplates allocation of expenses amongst various entities. That, the expenditure which is cove .....

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..... tion. In the present case, undisputedly, the payment was made to those employees who worked in the head office. It is also not the case of the assessee that such employees exclusively worked for the branch in India. The material placed on record also shows that the allocation of expenses is based on the man hours engaged towards the work of the Indian project. This fact itself shows that such empl .....

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