Income-tax Act, 1961 · Chapter X: Special Provisions Relating to Avoidance of Tax
Section 92CE: Secondary adjustment in certain cases
The Income-tax Act, 1961 was repealed by the Income-tax Act, 2025 from 1 April 2026. The text is kept here because the judgments below apply it.
(1) Where a primary adjustment to transfer price,—
(i) has been made suomotu by the assessee in his return of income;
(ii) made by the Assessing Officer has been accepted by the assessee;
(iii) is determined by an advance pricing agreement entered into by the assessee under section 92CC;
(iv) is made as per the safe harbour rules framed under section 92CB; or
(v) is arising as a result of resolution of an assessment by way of the mutual agreement procedure under an agreement entered into under section 90 or section 90A for avoidance of double taxation, the assessee shall make a secondary adjustment:
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall apply, if,—
(i) the amount of primary adjustment made in any previous year does not exceed one crore rupees; and
(ii) the primary adjustment is made in respect of an assessment year commencing on or before the 1st day of April, 2016.
(2) Where, as a result of primary adjustment to the transfer price, there is an increase in the total income or reduction in the loss, as the case may be, of the assessee, the excess money which is available with its associated enterprise, if not repatriated to India within the time as may be prescribed, shall be deemed to be an advance made by the assessee to such associated enterprise and the interest on such advance, shall be computed in such manner as may be prescribed.
(3) For the purposes of this section,—
(i) —associated enterprise‖ shall have the meaning assigned to it in sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of section 92A;
(ii) —arm‘s length price‖ shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (ii) of section 92F;
(iii) —excess money‖ means the difference between the arm‘s length price determined in primary adjustment and the price at which the international transaction has actually been undertaken;
(iv) —primary adjustment‖ to a transfer price, means the determination of transfer price in accordance with the arm‘s length principle resulting in an increase in the total income or reduction in the loss, as the case may be, of the assessee;
(v) —secondary adjustment‖ means an adjustment in the books of account of the assessee and its associated enterprise to reflect that the actual allocation of profits between the assessee and its associated enterprise are consistent with the transfer price determined as a result of primary adjustment, thereby removing the imbalance between cash account and actual profit of the assessee.]
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 92CE
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