If it is not, the Assessing Officer has no power to impose
tax on the said income [CIT v M.R.P. Firm, (1965) 65 ITR 67,
74 (SC); E.D.Sassoon & Co. Ltd. VCIT.
It was further observed, "Barring the cases of fraud, collusion and inflation and deflation of values for ulterior purposes, cost of an asset to a divided member must necessarily be its cost to him at the time of partition, whether mentioned in the partition deed or ascertained aliunde". This principle was followed in the case of M.RM.K.PL. Firm (supra).
6.2 Before us the assessee is contending that issue in dispute of
whether the cost reimbursement issued by the assessee during
assessment at 2005-06 and 2006-07 satisfy the make available
condition under Article 12 should be decided in accordance with
the law without being influenced by the factor that in the
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subsequent year the assessee has offered the same for tax in
India. We do not understand, how the Assessing Officer can
decide this issue without examining the documentary evidence in
support of the actual services rendered. The onus was on the
assessee to provide the documentary evidence in support of its
claim thatpayment received was only in respect of the
reimbursement of cost of daily routine support services, but the
assessee has not provided any such documentary evidence either
before the lower authorities or before us. Before us even the
assessee has not offered willingness to produce such documents
before the Assessing Officer, otherwise we would have an option
to restore the matter back to the Assessing Officer for deciding a
fresh. But in absence of any such willingness, we do not find this
as a fit case for restoring the matter back to the Assessing Officer.
In the circumstances, the only option is that when the same
services rendered by the assessee under the garb of the new
service agreement with effect from 01/06/2005 and offered the
same for tax as Fee for Technical Services (FTS), the same
services rendered under the old agreement during period of 10
months in assessment year 2005-06and period of two monthsin
assessment year 2006-07, also falls in the nature of Technical,
Managerial or Consultancyservices liable to be taxed under the
DTAA. The rule of the consistency also demands that when the
assessee has admitted the payment for identical services as Fee
for technical services in the subsequent year, the assessee should
not dispute this issue in the years under consideration. The
assessee cannot take shelter under the decision of the Hon'ble
Supreme Court in the case of CIT Vs. M R P Firm (supra), without
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providing the documentary evidence to the Assessing Officer for
examining the nature of the services rendered. In the
circumstances, we uphold the order of the Assessing Officer on
the issue in dispute. The other arguments raised by the assessee
are rendered merely academic only as without knowing the actual
services rendered and whether the technical information,
knowledge, know how acquired by the assessee has been utilized
by the assessee as per requirement of Article12 of the DTAA, the
applicability of the judicial decisions cited by the assessee cannot
be examined. Accordingly, we are not adjudicating upon the other
arguments raised by the assessee.
The Inspecting Asstt. Commissioner directed that the market value as on 1-1-1964 should be taken as the cost of acquisition and 70 per cent of the sale proceeds be taken as the market value as on 1-1-1964. The assessment was completed accordingly. Now Internal Audit Party has raised an objection. It has objected to adopting the market value as on 1-1-1964 at 70 per cent of the sale proceeds and suggested that the cost of properties which are the subject matter of discussion of the audit is tenable in view of the decisions of the Madras High Court in the case of CIT v. RM.K.P.L. Firm (124 IT.R 340) wherein on similar facts it has been laid down that the cost of acquisition as recorded in books should be taken and Section 55(2) is not applicable.