Acit, Chennai vs Naresh Prasad Agarwal, Chennai on 27 June, 2018
consequently an erroneous determination of the arm's length
margin. In this regard the ld.AR placed reliance on the decision in
Microsoft India (P.) Ltd. v. DCIT, wherein the Tribunal has held that
there must be parity in the treatment of income and corresponding
expenses while computing operating margins, and selective
exclusion results in an artificial skewing of profitability. In view of
the aforesaid arguments, the ld.AR submitted that the guest house
expenditure be excluded from operating expenses, in line with the
treatment accorded to the corresponding income, so as to ensure a
consistent and accurate computation of the Profit Level Indicator
(PLI) and to avoid any distortion in the determination of the
Appellant's arm's length margin.