TY - GEN AU - SHAH, DHINAL ASHVINBHAI TI - CBDT circulars on transfer pricing of contract R&D centres: More questions than answers PY - 2013/// KW - TAXATION N2 - Characterzation of development centers of multinational companies (MNC) in India has been a vexed issue for a considerable time . While the MNCs contend that are contract R&D service providers bearing insignificant or risk free entities, the Transfer pricing officers (TPOs) have been treating them as full or significant risk bearing entities- thus attributing a higher markup for the functional and risk profile borne by them ER -