CBDT Notifies Transfer Pricing Tolerance Range for AY 2024-25 Under Rule 10CA



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The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has announced the transfer pricing tolerance range for Assessment Year 2024-25. This notification aims to provide greater certainty for taxpayers and reduce perceived risks related to the pricing of international and specified domestic transactions. The new rules establish a tolerance range, meaning that if the actual transaction price varies within a certain percentage of the arm's length price, the actual price will be considered the arm's length price.

CBDT notifies Tolerance Range for Transfer Pricing for A.Y 2024-25 as per proviso to sub-rule (7) of rule 10CA of the Income-tax Rules, 1962

Notification of tolerance range shall provide certainty to taxpayers and reduce the risk perception associated with pricing of a transaction in transfer pricing

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued notification no. 116/2024 dated October 18, 2024 notifying the tolerance range for AY 2024-25. The notification of tolerance range shall provide certainty to taxpayers and reduce the risk perception associated with pricing of a transaction in transfer pricing.

Proviso to sub-rule(7) of rule 10CA sub-rule(7) provides that, “if the variation between the arm’s length price so determined at which the international transaction or specified domestic transaction has actually been undertaken does not exceed such percentage not exceeding three percent of the latter, as may be notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette in this behalf, the price at which the international transaction or specified domestic transaction has actually been undertaken shall be deemed to be the arm’s length price.”

Transfer Pricing Tolerance Range Notified for AY 2024-25

The tolerance range for transfer pricing is as follows:

  1. The tolerance ranges shall be 1% for transactions in the nature of “wholesale trading” and 3% for others, respectively, as notified last year and
  2. The term ‘wholesale trading’, shall be defined as an international transaction or specified domestic transaction of trading in goods that fulfil all the following conditions:
  • Purchase cost of finished goods is 80% or more of the total cost pertaining to such trading activities; and
  • Average monthly closing inventory of goods is 10% or less of sales pertaining to such trading activities.

FAQ :

The CBDT has notified the tolerance range for transfer pricing for Assessment Year 2024-25 under Rule 10CA of the Income-tax Rules, 1962.

The notification of a tolerance range is intended to provide certainty to taxpayers and reduce the risk perception associated with the pricing of transactions in transfer pricing.

The tolerance range is 1% for transactions in the nature of 'wholesale trading' and 3% for all other transactions.

'Wholesale trading' is defined as a transaction where the purchase cost of finished goods is 80% or more of the total cost, and the average monthly closing inventory is 10% or less of sales.

The provided text states that if the variation does not exceed the notified percentage, the actual price is deemed the arm's length price. It does not specify what happens if it exceeds the range.




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