Grid Solutions Oy (Ltd) vs Assistant Commissioner Of Income Tax ... on 17 January, 2025
6. As a consequence of the above, the AO came to hold that the
performance of senior functionaries of associated enterprises in India
was monitored, controlled and managed by foreign companies of the
GE Group, with Indian AEs playing a significant part in connection
with the business of the foreign companies and being indelibly
connected in the global business of the GE Group. The opinion with
respect to escapement of income also appears to be founded on the
decision rendered by this Court in GE Energy Parts Inc. vs. CIT
(International Taxation), Delhi -15. The aforesaid judgment of the
High Court was concerned with the challenge to reassessment initiated
against various constituents of the GE Group pertaining to AY 2001-02.
The reassessment action was upheld by the Income Tax Appellate
Tribunal6 in terms of its judgment dated 27 January 2017 which was
thereafter followed in subsequent AYs'. It is common ground that the
reassessment action that formed the subject matter of that litigation
emanated from a search and survey conducted in 2007 and on the basis
of which assessments for AYs 2001-02 to 2008-09 came to be
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2018 SCC OnLine Del 13256.