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20. The case of the Revenue is that the assessee has made payment for acquiring the right to use software. The authorities below have also made observations in their respective orders about the source code of the software and have further stretched the softwares to equate it with secret formula or secret process, so as to bring the transaction with respect to purchase of software in the present case within the ambit of ‗royalty'.

We have already held that the software is embedded in the equipment and is inextricable linked to the working of imaging equipment, therefore, payment for software cannot be separated from consolidated payment of equipment. Nevertheless, to put this issue in clear prospective we would take to refer to the decision of Mumbai Bench of the Tribunal in the case of Galatea Ltd. Vs. Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax (supra) wherein similar issue was raised. The Tribunal after considering the facts of the case and catena of judgments held that where software is part of equipment there is no question for segregating the payment for software. And such payments do not fall within the ambit of Royalty. The relevant extract of the decision of Tribunal is reproduced here-in-under :

17. We have carefully analyzed the facts of the case and arguments made by the Ld. Counsel for the assessee as well as counter arguments made by the Ld. Departmental Representative.

The undisputed facts before us are that none of the customers have purchased only machine or only software. There was no customer who purchased only software. Ld. Counsel for the assessee drew our attention on various pages of the paper book to establish that the machine sold by the assessee could not be made operational or functional in the absence of operating software along with the application software. These facts were not controverted by the Ld. Departmental Representative during the course of hearing in response to a specific query put to him by the Bench. It is noted that complete details have been given by the assessee in the paper book at Page-222 and 224. Our attention was also drawn on certificate from the assessee enclosed at Page-225 of the paper book certifying that software supplied by the assessee to end user was for integration with the machine supplied by the assessee and that this software had no other independent use as such, except to enable such machine to function. We have also gone through the End User License Agreement (EULA) entered into by the assessee with the customers wherein there are various clauses which indicate that the software supplied by the assessee was meant only and exclusively for the purpose of making the said machine functional. Clause 2.1 of the agreement provides that customer is granted non-exclusive, non-transferable limited license to use the software and related knowhow on the machine for the sole purpose of scanning the internal / external feature of rough diamond and creating a three dimensional image of these features of rough diamond. Clause 2.2 of the agreement puts certain restrictions upon the customers for any other use of the software in any other machine. This clause restrains the customer from duplicating the software or making any copies, modifications, isolating the software and making it available as a standalone data base or product, removing any product identification, copyright or other proprietary notice from the software or decompiling, disassembling, reverse engineering, or making any other attempt to reconstruct or discover the source code, etc. This clause clearly lays down that customer shall not reproduce the software or any of the documentation provided in connection with the software or related knowhow. It is further noted that clause Agfa Healthcare N.V. 6.2 of the said agreement lays down that the assessee is and shall remain sole and exclusive owner of the right, title and interest in the software and related know. This software cannot be used by the customer except for the operation of the machine. It is further noted by us that the machine was equipped with requisite security controls and hardware locks to stop any type of misuse of software. Clause 10.2 of one of the agreement available at Page-49 is reproduced hereunder for the sake of ready reference:-