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45. The taxpayer also brought on record profile of the Infobeans at pages 58 to
60 of the appeal memo wherein it is claimed by the Infobeans that it is providing wide
range of services under four verticals i.e., services automation, enterprise and
industries and under the automation services verticals, the company is providing
advanced robotic process automation services. Since Infobeans is into diversified
activities it cannot be a suitable comparable vis d- vis the taxpayer which is a routine
software development services provider Infobeans has been excluded as a
comparable on account of functional dissimilarity vis-a-vis routine software 24 ITA
No.868/Del/2021 development service provider by the coordinate Bench of the
Tribunal in case of PubMatic India (P) Ltd. vs. A CIT in ITA No. 655/Pun 2017. So, in
view of the matter, we order to exclude Infobeans from the final set of comparables.
For the year under consideration, the business description of the company is provided at Page
72 of the annual report [Page 199 of Paper book- Annual Reports], which states: I
Info Beans Technologies Ltd (the "company''), operating at CMMI level 3, is a public
limited company domiciled in India, and has also got listed on the National Stock
Exchange -- SME Emerge Platform on 02nd May, 2017. The Company is specialized in
software services. Our business is primarily engaged in providing custom developed
services to offshore clients. InfoBeans provides software engineering services
primarily in Custom Application Development (CAD), Content Management Systems
(CMS), Enterprise Mobility (EM), and Big Data Analytics (EDA).