Ch-9 Advance Tax, TDS, TCS

CHAPTER 9
ADVANCE TAX, TAX

DEDUCTION AT SOURCE
AND INTRODUCTION
TO TAX COLLECTION
AT SOURCE
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After studying this chapter, you would be able to–
 appreciate the modes of recovery of income-tax from an
assessee;
 comprehend and apply the provisions governing deduction
of tax at source from certain specified income and payments;
 examine whether tax is deductible in a particular case(s)
considering the provisions of the relevant section;
 compute the tax deductible at source in respect of a particular
case(s);
 identify the cases where tax is not required to be deducted
at source and the conditions to be satisfied for this purpose;
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 comprehend and appreciate the duty of the person

deducting tax;
 examine the consequences of failure to deduct tax at source
or make payment of the tax deducted at source;
 identify the “persons responsible for paying” tax deducted
at source;
 appreciate when the liability to pay advance tax arises;
 compute advance tax liability and the schedule of
instalments for payment of advance tax;
 compute interest for non-payment or short-payment of
advance tax;
 compute interest for deferment of advance tax;
 comprehend the concept of tax collection at source and
appreciate when tax is collectible at source;
 appreciate the difference between tax deduction at source and
tax collection at source.

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Tax deduction Tax Collection

Advance Tax
at source at source
Deduction of tax at Liability to pay Collection of tax

source advance tax at source
[Section 192 to 196] [Section 207 to 208] [Section 206C]
Certificate of Computation of Difference

deduction of tax at a advance tax between TDS
lower rate
[Section 209] and TCS
[Section 197]
Instalments of Common
No deduction of tax Number for TDS
advance tax and due
in certain cases and TCS
dates
[Section 197A] [Section 211] [Section 203A]
Miscellaneous
Provisions Credit for advance tax
[Section 198 to [Section 219]
206AA]
Interest on non-payment /
short payment or deferment
of advance tax
[Section 234B & 234C]

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1. DEDUCTION OF TAX AT SOURCE AND

ADVANCE PAYMENT [SECTION 190]
The total income of an assessee for the previous year is taxable in the relevant
assessment year. For example, the total income for the P.Y. 2020-21 is taxable in
the A.Y. 2021-22. However, income-tax is recovered from the assessee in the
previous year itself through –
(1) Tax deduction at source (TDS)
(2) Tax collection at source (TCS)
(3) Payment of advance tax
Another mode of recovery of tax is from the employer through tax paid by him
under section 192(1A) on the non-monetary perquisites provided to the employee.
These taxes are deductible from the total tax due from the assessee. The assessee,
while filing his return of income, has to pay self-assessment tax under section 140A,
if tax is due on the total income as per his return of income after adjusting, inter
alia, TDS, TCS, relief of tax claimed under section 89, tax credit claimed to be set
off in accordance with the provisions of section 115JD, any tax or interest payable
according to the provisions of section 191(2) and advance tax.
2. DIRECT PAYMENT [SECTION 191]

(1) Direct payment of tax [Section 191(1)]- Section 191 provides that in the
following cases, tax is payable by the assessee directly –
(i) in the case of income in respect of which tax is not required to be
deducted at source; and
(ii) income in respect of which tax is liable to be deducted but is not
actually deducted.
In view of this provision, the proceedings for recovery of tax necessarily had
to be taken against the assessee whose tax was liable to be deducted, but not
deducted.
In order to overcome this difficulty, the Explanation to this section provides
that if any person, including the principal officer of a company –
(i) who is required to deduct tax at source; or

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(ii) an employer paying tax on non-monetary perquisites under section
192(1A),
does not deduct, or after deducting fails to pay such tax, or does not pay, the
whole or part of the tax, then, such person shall be deemed to be an assessee-
in-default.
However, if the assessee himself has paid the tax, this provision will not apply.
(2) Direct payment of tax, where income of the assessee includes value of
specified security or sweat equity shares allotted or transferred free of
cost or at a concessional rate to the assessee by an employer being an
eligible start up 1 [Section 191(2)] – In a case where the income of the
assessee includes the value of any specified security or sweat equity shares
allotted or transferred by the current employer, being an eligible start-up, free
of cost or at concessional rate to the assessee, the income-tax on such income
has to be paid by the assessee within 14 days from the earliest of the following
dates -
- after the expiry of 48 months from the end of the relevant assessment
year; or
- from the date of the sale of such specified security or sweat equity share
by the assessee; or
- from the date of the assessee ceasing to be the employee of the employer
who allotted or transferred him such specified security or sweat equity
shares.
3. DEDUCTION OF TAX AT SOURCE

3.1 Salary [Section 192]
(1) Applicability of TDS under section 192
This section casts an obligation on every person responsible for paying any
income chargeable to tax under the head ‘Salaries’ to deduct income-tax on
the amount payable.
1
Referred to in section 80-IAC, which provides for deduction from gross total income of eligible start-
ups. This section will be dealt with in detail at the Final level.

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(2) Manner of deduction of tax

(i) Such income-tax has to be calculated at the average rate of income-tax
computed on the basis of the rates in force for the relevant financial
year in which the payment is made, on the estimated total income of
the assessee. Therefore, the liability to deduct tax at source in the case
of salaries arises only at the time of payment.
However, in case an employee intends to opt for concessional rate of tax
under section 115BAC and he intimates to the deductor, being his
employer, of such intention, then, the employer shall compute his total
income, and deduct tax thereon in accordance with the provisions of
section 115BAC. If such intimation is not made by the employee, the
employer shall deduct tax at source without considering the provision of
section 115BAC of the Act. For detailed discussion, refer page 8.17 in
Chapter 8 “Computation of total income and tax payable”.
(ii) Average rate of income-tax means the rate arrived at by dividing the
amount of income-tax calculated on the total income, by such total
income.
(iii) The concept of payment of tax on non-monetary perquisites has been
provided in sections 192(1A) and (1B). These sections provide that the
employer may pay this tax, at his option, in lieu of deduction of tax at
source from salary payable to the employee. Such tax will have to be
worked out at the average rate applicable to aggregate salary income
of the employee and payment of tax will have to be made every month
along with tax deducted at source on monetary payment of salary,
allowances etc.
(iv) An employer, being an eligible start up 2, responsible for paying any
income to the assessee by way of perquisite being any specified security
or sweat equity shares allotted or transferred free of cost or at
concessional rate to the assessee, has to deduct or pay, as the case may
be, tax on the value of such perquisite provided to its employee within 14
days from the earliest of the following dates -
- after the expiry of 48 months from the end of the relevant
assessment year; or
2
Referred to in section 80-IAC

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- from the date of the sale of such specified security or sweat equity
share by the assessee; or
- from the date of the assessee ceasing to be the employee of the
employer who allotted such shares
Such tax has to deducted or paid on the basis of rates in force for the
financial year in which said specified security or sweat equity share is
allotted or transferred.
(v) In cases where an assessee is simultaneously employed under more
than one employer or the assessee takes up a job with another
employer during the financial year after his resignation or retirement
from the services of the former employer, he may furnish the details of
the income under the head “Salaries” due or received by him from the
other employer, the tax deducted therefrom and such other particulars
to his current employer. Thereupon, the subsequent employer should
take such information into consideration and then deduct the tax
remaining payable in respect of the employee’s remuneration from
both the employers put together for the relevant financial year.
(vi) In respect of salary payments to employees of Government or to
employees of companies, co-operative societies, local authorities,
universities, institutions, associations or bodies, deduction of tax at
source should be made after allowing relief under section 89(1), where
eligible.
(vii) A tax payer having salary income in addition to other income
chargeable to tax for that financial year, may send to the employer, the
following:
(a) particulars of such other income and particulars of any tax
deducted under any other provision;
(b) loss, if any, under the head ‘Income from house property’.
The employer shall take the above particulars into account while
calculating tax deductible at source.
(viii) It is also provided that except in cases where loss from house property
has been adjusted against salary income, the tax deductible from salary
should not be reduced as a consequence of making the above
adjustments.

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(3) Furnishing of statement of particulars of perquisites or profits in lieu of

salary by employer to employee
Sub-section (2C) provides that the employer shall furnish to the employee, a
statement in Form No. 12BA giving correct and complete particulars of
perquisites or profits in lieu of salary provided to him and the value thereof.
The statement shall be in the prescribed form and manner. This requirement
is applicable only where the salary paid/payable to an employee exceeds
` 1,50,000. For other employees, the particulars of perquisites/profits in lieu
of salary shall be given in Form 16 itself.
(4) Circular issued by CBDT
Every year, the CBDT issues a circular giving details and direction to all employers
for the purpose of deduction of tax from salaries payable to the employees
during the relevant financial year. These instructions should be followed.
(5) Requirement to obtain evidence/ proof/ particulars of claims from the
employee by the employer
Sub-section (2D) casts responsibility on the person responsible for paying any
income chargeable under the head “Salaries” to obtain from the assessee, the
evidence or proof or particulars of prescribed claims (including claim for set-
off of loss) under the provisions of the Act in the prescribed form and manner,
for the purposes of –
(1) estimating income of the assessee; or
(2) computing tax deductible under section 192(1).
Rule 26C requires furnishing of evidence of the following claims by an
employee to the person responsible for making payment under section 192(1)
in Form No.12BB for the purpose of estimating his income or computing the
tax deduction of tax at source:
S. No. Nature of Claim Evidence or particulars

1. House Rent Allowance Name, address and PAN of the
landlord(s) where the aggregate
rent paid during the previous year
exceeds ` 1 lakh.
2. Leave Travel Concession or Evidence of expenditure
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3. Deduction of interest under the Name, address and PAN of the
head “Income from house lender
property”
4. Deduction under Chapter VI-A Evidence of investment or
expenditure.
3.2 Premature withdrawal from employees provident fund [Section 192A]

(1) Compliance with Rule 9 of Part A of the Fourth Schedule: Certain
Concerns
(i) Under the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act,
1952 (EPF &MP Act, 1952), certain specified employers are required to
comply with the Employees Provident Fund Scheme, 1952 (EPFS).
However, these employers are also permitted to establish and manage
their own private provident fund (PF) scheme subject to fulfillment of
certain conditions.
(ii) The provident funds established under a scheme framed under EPF &
MP Act, 1952 or Provident Fund exempted under section 17 of the said
Act and recognised under the Income-tax Act, 1961 are termed as
Recognised Provident fund (RPF) under the Act.
(iii) Part A of the Fourth Schedule to the Income-tax Act, 1961 contains the
provisions relating to RPFs. Under the existing provisions of Rule 8 of
Part A of the Fourth Schedule, the withdrawal of accumulated balance
by an employee from the RPF is exempt from taxation.
(iv) For the purpose of discouraging pre-mature withdrawal and promoting
long term savings, if the employee makes withdrawal before continuous
service of five years (other than the cases of termination due to ill
health, contraction or discontinuance of business, cessation of
employment etc.) and does not opt for transfer of accumulated balance
to the new employer, the withdrawal would be subject to tax.
(v) Rule 9 of Part A of the Fourth Schedule provides the manner of
computing the tax liability of the employee in respect of such pre-
mature withdrawal. In order to ensure collection of tax in respect of
such pre-mature withdrawals, Rule 10 of Part A of the Fourth Schedule
casts responsibility on the trustees of the RPF to deduct tax as
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(vi) Rule 9 provides that the tax on withdrawn amount is required to be

calculated by re-computing the tax liability of the years for which the
contribution to RPF has been made by treating the same as contribution
to unrecognized provident fund. The trustees of private provident fund
schemes, are generally a part of the employer group and hence, have
access to or can easily obtain the information regarding taxability of the
employee making pre-mature withdrawal for the purposes of
computation of the amount of tax liability under Rule 9. However, it
may not always be possible for the trustees of EPFS to get the
information regarding taxability of the employee such as year-wise
amount of taxable income and tax payable for the purposes of
computation of the amount of tax liability under Rule 9.
(2) Applicability and Rate of TDS
Section 192A provides for deduction of tax @10% on premature taxable
withdrawal from employees provident fund scheme. Accordingly, in a case
where the accumulated balance due to an employee participating in a
recognized provident fund is includible in his total income owing to the
provisions of Rule 8 of Part A of the Fourth Schedule not being applicable,
the trustees of the Employees Provident Fund Scheme, 1952 or any person
authorised under the scheme to make payment of accumulated balance due
to employees are required to deduct income-tax@10%.
(3) Time of tax deduction at source
Tax should be deducted at the time of payment of accumulated balance
due to the employee.
(4) Non-applicability of TDS under section 192A
No tax deduction is to be made under this section, if the amount of such
payment or aggregate amount of such payment to the payee is less than
` 50,000.
(5) Deduction at maximum marginal rate in case of non-submission of PAN
Any person entitled to receive any amount on which tax is deductible under
this section has to furnish his PAN to the person responsible for deducting
such tax. In case he fails to do so, tax would be deductible at the maximum
marginal rate.

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3.3 Interest on securities [Section 193]
(1) Person responsible for deduction of tax at source
This section casts responsibility on every person responsible for paying to a
resident any income by way of interest on securities.
(2) Rate of TDS
Such person is vested with the responsibility to deduct income-tax at the
rates in force from the amount of interest payable.
The rate at which tax is deductible under section 193 is 10%, both in the case
of domestic companies and non-corporate resident assessees.
In order to provide more funds at the disposal of the taxpayers for dealing with
the economic situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of TDS u/s
193 has been reduced from 10% to 7.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
the period from 14th May, 2020 to 31st March, 2021[Section 197B].
Tax should be deducted at the time of credit of such income to the account
of the payee or at the time of payment thereof in cash or by issue of a cheque
or draft or by any other mode, whichever is earlier.
Where any income by way of interest on securities is credited to any account
in the books of account of the person liable to pay such income, such
crediting is deemed to be credit of such income to the account of the payee
and tax has to be deducted at source. The account to which such interest is
credited may be called “Interest Payable account” or “Suspense account” or
by any other name.
(4) Non-applicability of TDS under section 193
No tax deduction is to be made from any interest payable:
(i) on 4¼% National Defence Bonds 1972, where the bonds are held by an
individual not being a non-resident;
(ii) on 4¼% National Defence Loan, 1968 or 4¾% National Defence Loan,
1972, where the interest is payable to an individual;
(iii) on National Development Bonds;
(iv) on 7-year National Savings Certificates (IV Issue);
(v) on debentures issued by any institution or authority or any public sector
company or any co-operative society (including a co-operative land

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mortgage bank or a co-operative land development bank), as notified

by the Central Government;
Accordingly, the Central Government has, vide Notification No. 27

& 28/2018, dated 18-06-2018, notified-
(i) “Power Finance Corporation Limited 54EC Capital Gains Bond” issued
by Power Finance Corporation Limited {PFCL} and
(ii) “Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited 54EC Capital Gains
Bond” issued by Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited {IRFCL}
Thus, no tax is required to be deducted at source on interest payable
on “Power Finance Corporation Limited 54EC Capital Gains Bond” and
“Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited 54EC Capital Gains Bond”.
The benefit of this exemption would, however, be admissible in the case
of transfer of such bonds by endorsement or delivery, only if the
transferee informs PFCL/IRFCL by registered post within a period of
sixty days of such transfer.
(vi) on 6½% Gold Bonds, 1977 or 7% Gold Bonds, 1980, where the bonds
are held by an individual (other than a non-resident), provided that the
holders of the bonds make a written declaration that the total nominal
value of the bonds held by him or on his behalf did not in either case
exceed `10,000 at any time during the period to which the interest
relates;
(vii) on any security of the Central Government or a State Government
Note – It may be noted that tax has to be deducted at source in respect
of interest payable on 8% Savings (Taxable) Bonds, 2003, or 7.75%
Savings (Taxable) Bonds, 2018, only if such interest payable exceeds
` 10,000 during the financial year.
(viii) on any debentures (whether listed or not listed on a recognized stock
exchange) issued by the company in which the public are substantially
interested to a resident individual or HUF. However,
(a) the interest should be paid by the company by an account payee
cheque;
(b) the amount of such interest or the aggregate thereof paid or likely
to be paid during the financial year by the company to such
resident individual or HUF should not exceed ` 5,000.

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(ix) on securities to LIC, GIC, subsidiaries of GIC or any other insurer,
provided –
(a) the securities are owned by them or
(b) they have full beneficial interest in such securities.
(x) on any security issued by a company, where such security is in
dematerialised form and is listed on a recognised stock exchange in
India in accordance with the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956
and the rules made thereunder.
3.4 Dividends [Section 194]
(1) Applicability of TDS under section 194
The principal officer of a domestic company is required to deduct tax on
dividend distributed or paid by it to its resident shareholders.
The provisions of tax deduction at source under section 194, therefore, applies
only to dividend distributed or paid to resident shareholders.
(2) Rate of TDS
The rate of deduction of tax in respect of such dividend is 10%.
194 has been reduced from 10% to 7.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
the period from 14th May, 2020 to 31st March, 2021 [Section 197B].
The deduction of tax has to be made before making any payment by any mode
in respect of any dividend or before making any distribution or payment to a
resident shareholder of any amount deemed as dividend under section 2(22)(a)/
(b)/(c)/(d)/(e).
(4) Non-applicability of TDS under section194
(i) No tax is to deducted in case of a shareholder, being an individual, where -
(a) the dividend is paid by any mode other than cash; and
(b) the amount of such dividend or aggregate of dividend distributed
or paid or likely to be distributed or paid during the financial year
by the company to such shareholder does not exceed ` 5,000.

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(ii) The TDS provisions will not apply to such dividend credited or paid to LIC,
GIC, subsidiaries of GIC or any other insurer provided the shares are
owned by them, or they have full beneficial interest in such shares
3.5 Interest other than interest on securities [Section 194A]
This section deals with the scheme of deduction of tax at source from interest other
than interest on securities. The main provisions are the following:
(1) Applicability of TDS under section 194A
This section applies only to interest, other than “interest on securities”,
credited or paid by assessees other than individuals or Hindu undivided
family. However, an individual or Hindu undivided family whose total sales,
gross receipts or turnover from the business or profession carried on by him
exceed ` 1 crore in case of business and ` 50 lakhs in case of profession
during the immediately preceding financial year is liable to deduct tax at
source under this section.
These provisions apply only to interest paid or credited to residents.
The deduction of tax must be made at the time of crediting such interest to
the account of the payee or at the time of its payment in cash or by any other
mode, whichever is earlier.
Where any such interest is credited to any account in the books of account
of the person liable to pay such income, such crediting is deemed to be credit
of such income to the account of the payee and the tax has to be deducted
at source. The account to which such interest is credited may be called
“Interest Payable account” or “Suspense account” or by any other name.
The CBDT has, vide Circular No.3/2010 dated 2.3.2010, given a clarification
regarding deduction of tax at source on payment of interest on time deposits
under section 194A by banks following Core-branch Banking Solutions (CBS)
software. It has been clarified that Explanation to section 194A is not meant
to apply in cases of banks where credit is made to provisioning account on
daily/monthly basis for the purpose of macro monitoring only by the use of
CBS software. It has been further clarified that since no constructive credit to
the depositor’s/payee’s account takes place while calculating interest on time
deposits on daily or monthly basis in the CBS software used by banks, tax
need not be deducted at source on such provisioning of interest by banks for
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at source on accrual of interest at the end of financial year or at periodic
intervals as per practice of the bank or as per the depositor's / payee's
requirement or on maturity or on encashment of time deposits, whichever
event takes place earlier, whenever the aggregate of amounts of interest
income credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid during the financial
year by the banks exceeds the limits specified in section 194A.
Note - The time for making the payment of tax deducted at source would
reckon from the date of credit of interest made constructively to the account
of the payee.
(3) Rate of TDS
The rate at which the deduction is to be made is given in Part II of the First
Schedule to the Annual Finance Act. The rate at which tax is to be deducted
is 10% both in the case of non-corporate resident assessees and domestic
companies.
194A has been reduced from 10% to 7.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
(4) Non-applicability of TDS under section 194A
No deduction of tax shall be made in the following cases:
(a) If the aggregate amount of interest paid or credited during the financial
year does not exceed ` 5,000.
This limit is ` 40,000 where the payer is a –
(i) banking company;
(ii) a co-operative society engaged in banking business; and
(iii) post office and interest is credited or paid in respect of any
deposit under notified schemes.
In respect of (i), (ii) and (iii) above, the limit is ` 50,000, in case of
payee, being a senior citizen.
The limit will be calculated with respect to income credited or paid by
a branch of a banking company or a co-operative society or a public
company in case of:
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(ii) time deposits with a co-operative society carrying on the business

of banking; and
(iii) deposits with housing finance companies, provided:
- they are public companies formed and registered in India
- their main object is to carry on the business of providing
long-term finance for construction or purchase of houses in
India for residential purposes.
The threshold limit will be reckoned with reference to the total interest
credited or paid by the banking company or the co-operative society or
the public company, as the case may be, (and not with reference to each
branch), where such banking company or co-operative society or public
company has adopted core banking solutions.
(b) Interest paid or credited by a firm to any of its partners;
(c) Interest paid or credited in respect of deposits under any scheme
framed by the Central Government and notified by it in this behalf;
(d) Interest income credited or paid in respect of deposits (other than time
deposits made on or after 1.7.1995) with a bank to which the Banking
Regulation Act, 1949 applies;
(e) Income paid or credited by a co-operative society (other than a co-
operative bank) to a member thereof or to such income credited or paid
by a co-operative society to any other co-operative society;
(f) Interest income credited or paid in respect of -
(i) deposits with primary agricultural credit society or a primary
credit society or a co-operative land mortgage bank or a co-
operative land development bank;
(ii) deposit (other than time deposits made on or after 1.7.1995) with
a co-operative society [other than cooperative society or bank
referred to in (i)] engaged in carrying on the business of banking.
However, a cooperative society referred to in (e) or (f) is liable to deduct
tax if –
(i) the total sales, gross receipts or turnover of the co-operative society
exceeds ` 50 crore during the financial year immediately preceding
the financial year in which interest is credited or paid; and

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(ii) the amount of interest or the aggregate amount of interest credited
or paid, or is likely to be credited or paid, during the financial year
is more than ` 50,000 in case of payee being a senior citizen and
` 40,000, in any other case.
Thus, such co-operative society is required to deduct tax under section
194A on interest credited or paid by it –
(a) to its member or to any other co-operative society; or
(b) in respect of deposits with a primary agricultural credit society or a
primary credit society or a co-operative land mortgage bank or a
co-operative land development bank or
(c) in respect of deposits with a co-operative bank other than a co-
operative society or bank engaged in carrying on the business of
banking
(g) Interest income credited or paid by the Central Government under any
provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
(h) Interest paid or credited to the following entities:
(i) banking companies, or co-operative societies engaged in the
business of banking, including co-operative land mortgage’
banks;
(ii) financial corporations established under any Central, State or
Provincial Act.
(iii) the Life Insurance Corporation of India.
(iv) companies and co-operative societies carrying on the business of
insurance.
(v) the Unit Trust of India; and
(vi) notified institution, association, body or class of institutions,
associations or bodies (National Skill Development Fund and
Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd. (HUDCO),
New Delhi have been notified by the Central Government for this
purpose). However, no notification shall be issued in this
regard on or after 1.4.2020.
(i) income credited by way of interest on the compensation amount
awarded by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal;

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(j) income paid by way of interest on the compensation amount awarded

by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal where the amount of such
income or, as the case may be, the aggregate of the amounts of such
income paid during the financial year does not exceed ` 50,000.
(k) income paid or payable by an infrastructure capital company or
infrastructure capital fund or public sector company or scheduled bank
in relation to a zero coupon bond issued on or after 1.6.2005.
Notes
(1) The expression “time deposits” [for the purpose of (4)(a), (d) and (f)
above] means the deposits, including recurring deposits, repayable on
the expiry of fixed periods.
(2) Senior citizen means an individual resident in India who is of the age of
60 years or more at any time during the relevant previous year.
(5) Power to the Central Government to issue notification
The Central Government is empowered to issue notification for non-deduction
of tax at source or deduction of tax at a lower rate, from such payment to such
person or class of persons, specified in that notification.
No tax to be deducted at source under section 194A, in case of senior

citizens if the aggregate amount of interest does not exceed ` 50,000
[Notification No. 6/2018, dated 6-12-2018]
As per the third proviso to section 194A(3), no tax is required to be deducted at
source in the case of senior citizens where the amount of interest or the
aggregate of the amount of interest credited or paid during the financial year by
a banking company, co-operative society engaged in banking business or post
office does not exceed ` 50,000. However, it has come to the notice of the CBDT,
that, some tax deductors/banks are making tax deductions even when the
amount of interest does not exceed ` 50,000.
Under Rule 31A(5) of the Income-tax Rules, 1962, the DGIT (Systems) is
authorized to specify the procedures, formats and standards for the purposes
of furnishing and verification of the statements or claim for refund and shall
be responsible for the day-to-day administration in relation to furnishing and
verification of the statements or claim for refund in the manner so specified.
Accordingly, the Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) has, in
exercise of the powers delegated by the CBDT under Rule 31A(5), clarified that
no tax deduction at source under section 194A shall be made in the case of

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senior citizens where the amount of such income or the aggregate of the
amounts of such income credited or paid during the financial year does not
exceed ` 50,000.
Applicability of provisions for deduction of tax at source under section

194A on interest on fixed deposit made in the name of the Registrar
General of Court or the depositor of the Fund on directions of Courts
[Circular No.23/2015, dated 28-12-2015]
Section 194A stipulates deduction of tax at source (TDS) on interest other than
interest on securities if the aggregate of amount of such interest credited or
paid to the account of the payee during the financial year exceeds the specified
amount.
In the case of UCO Bank in Writ Petition No. 3563 of 2012 and CM No.
7517/2012 vide judgment dated 11/11/2014, the Hon'ble Delhi High Court has
held that the provisions of section 194A do not apply to fixed deposits made
in the name of Registrar General of the Court on the directions of the Court
during the pendency of proceedings before the Court. In such cases, till the
Court passes the appropriate orders in the matter, it is not known who the
beneficiary of the fixed deposits will be. Amount and year of receipt is also
unascertainable. The Delhi High Court, thus, held that the person who is
ultimately granted the funds would be determined by orders that are passed
subsequently. At that stage, undisputedly, tax would be required to be
deducted at source to the credit of the recipient. The High Court has also
quashed Circular No.8/2011.
The CBDT has accepted the aforesaid judgment. Accordingly, it is clarified that
interest on FDRs made in the name of Registrar General of the Court or the
depositor of the fund on the directions of the Court, will not be subject to TDS
till the matter is decided by the Court. However, once the Court decides the
ownership of the money lying in the fixed deposit, the provisions of section
194A will apply to the recipient of the income.
Deduction of tax at source on interest income accrued to minor child,

where both the parents have deceased [Notification No. 05/2017, dated
29.05.2017]
Under Rule 31A(5) of the Income-tax Rules, 1962, the Director General of
Income-tax (Systems) is authorized to specify the procedures, formats and
standards for the purposes of furnishing and verification of, inter alia, the
statements and shall be responsible for the day-to-day administration in

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relation to furnishing and verification of the statements in the manner so

specified.
The Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) has, in exercise of the
powers delegated by the CBDT under Rule 31A(5), specified that in case of
minors where both the parents have deceased, TDS on the interest income
accrued to the minor is required to be deducted and reported against PAN
of the minor child unless a declaration is filed under Rule 37BA(2) that credit
for tax deducted has to be given to another person.
Deduction of tax at source on interest on deposits made under Capital
Gains Accounts Scheme, 1988 where depositor has deceased
[Notification No. 08/2017, dated 13.09.2017]
The Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) has, in exercise of the
powers delegated by the CBDT under Rule 31A(5), vide this notification,
specified that in case of deposits under the Capital Gains Accounts Scheme,
1988 where the depositor has deceased:
(i) TDS on the interest income accrued for and upto the period of death of
the depositor is required to be deducted and reported against PAN of the
depositor, and
(ii) TDS on the interest income accrued for the period after death of the
depositor is required to be deducted and reported against PAN of the legal
heir,
unless a declaration is filed under Rule 37BA(2) that credit for tax deducted
has to be given to another person.
ILLUSTRATION 1
Examine the TDS implications under section 194A in the cases mentioned hereunder–
(i) On 1.10.2020, Mr. Harish made a six-month fixed deposit of ` 10 lakh@9% p.a.
with ABC Co-operative Bank. The fixed deposit matures on 31.3.2021.
(ii) On 1.6.2020, Mr. Ganesh made three nine months fixed deposits of ` 3 lakh
each, carrying interest@9% with Dwarka Branch, Janakpuri Branch and Rohini
Branch of XYZ Bank, a bank which has adopted CBS. The fixed deposits mature
on 28.2.2021.
(iii) On 1.10.2020, Mr. Rajesh started a six months recurring deposit of ` 2,00,000
per month@8% p.a. with PQR Bank. The recurring deposit matures on
31.3.2021.

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SOLUTION
(i) ABC Co-operative Bank has to deduct tax at source@7.5% on the interest of
` 45,000 (9% × ` 10 lakh × ½) under section 194A. The tax deductible at
source under section 194A from such interest is, therefore, ` 3,375.
(ii) XYZ Bank has to deduct tax at source@7.5% u/s 194A, since the aggregate
interest on fixed deposit with the three branches of the bank is ` 60,750
[3,00,000 × 3 × 9% × 9/12], which exceeds the threshold limit of ` 40,000.
Since XYZ Bank has adopted CBS, the aggregate interest credited/paid by all
branches has to be considered. Since the aggregate interest of ` 60,750
exceeds the threshold limit of ` 40,000, tax has to be deducted@7.5% u/s
194A.
(iii) No tax has to be deducted under section 194A by PQR Bank on the interest
of ` 28,000 falling due on recurring deposit on 31.3.2021 to Mr. Rajesh, since
such interest does not exceed the threshold limit of ` 40,000.
3.6 Winnings from lotteries, crossword puzzles and horse races
[Sections 194B and 194BB]
(1) Rate of tax on casual income
Any income of a casual and non-recurring nature of the type of winnings from
lottery, crossword puzzle, card game and other game of any sort, races
including horse races, etc. will be charged to income-tax at a flat rate of 30%
[Section 115BB].
(2) TDS on winning from lotteries, crossword puzzles etc.
According to the provisions of section 194B, every person responsible for
paying to any person, whether resident or non-resident, any income by way
of winnings from lottery or crossword puzzle or card game and other game
of any sort, is required to deduct income-tax therefrom at the rate of 30% if
the amount of payment exceeds ` 10,000. Winnings by way of jack pot would
also fall within the scope of section 194B.
(3) Cases where winnings are partly in kind and partly in cash
In a case where the winnings are wholly in kind or partly in cash and partly in
kind but the part in cash is not sufficient to meet the liability of deduction of
tax in respect of whole of the winnings, the person responsible for paying
shall, before releasing the winnings, ensure that tax has been paid in respect
of the winnings.

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(4) Person responsible for deduction of tax under section 194BB

Section 194BB casts responsibility on the following persons to deduct tax at
source -
(i) a bookmaker; or
(ii) a person to whom a license has been granted by the Government under
any law for the time being in force -
(a) for horse racing in any race course; or
(b) for arranging for wagering or betting in any race course.
(5) Threshold limit and rate of TDS under section 194BB
The obligation to deduct tax at source under section 194BB arises when the
abovementioned persons make payment to any person of any income by way
of winnings from any horse race in excess of ` 10,000. The rate applicable for
deduction of tax at source is 30%.
Tax will have to be deducted at source from winnings from horse races even
though the winnings may be paid to the person concerned in instalments of
less than ` 10,000. Similarly, in cases where the book-maker or other person
responsible for paying the winnings, credits such winnings and debits the
losses to the individual account of the punter, tax has to be deducted @30%
on winnings before set-off of losses. Thereafter, the net amount, after
deduction of tax and losses, has to be paid to the winner.
(6) Meaning of the expression “horse race”
In the context of the provisions of section 194BB, the expression ‘any horse
race’ used therein must be taken to include, wherever the circumstances so
necessitate, more than one horse race.
3.7 Payments to contractors and sub-contractors [Section 194C]
(1) Applicability of TDS under section 194C
Section 194C provides for deduction of tax at source from the payment made
to resident contractors and sub-contractors.
Tax has to be deducted at source under section 194C by any person
responsible for paying any sum to a resident contractor for carrying out any
work (including supply of labour for carrying out any work) in pursuance of a
contract between the contractor and the –

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(i) the Central Government or any State Government; or
(ii) any local authority; or
(iii) any statutory corporation; or
(iv) any company; or
(v) any co-operative society; or
(vi) any statutory authority dealing with housing accommodation; or
(vii) any society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860; or
(viii) any trust; or
(ix) any university established under a Central, State or Provincial Act and
an institution declared to be a university under the UGC Act, 1956; or
(x) any firm; or
(xi) any Government of a foreign State or foreign enterprise or any
association or body established outside India; or
(xii) any person, being an individual, HUF, AOP or BOI, who has total sales,
gross receipts or turnover from the business or profession carried
on by him exceeding ` 1 crore in case of business and ` 50 lakhs in
case of profession during the financial year immediately preceding the
financial year in which such sum is credited or paid to the account of
the contractor.
(2) Time of deduction
Tax has to be deducted at the time of payment of such sum or at the time of
credit of such sum to the account of the contractor, whichever is earlier.
Where any such sum is credited to any account in the books of account of
the person liable to pay such income, such crediting is deemed to be credit
of such income to the account of the payee and the tax has to be deducted
at source. The account to which such sum is credited may be called “Suspense
account” or by any other name.
However, no tax has to be deducted at source in respect of payments made
by individuals/HUF to a contractor exclusively for personal purposes.
(3) Rate of TDS
The rate of TDS under section 194C on payments to contractors would be
1%, where the payee is an individual or HUF and 2% in respect of other

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payees. The same rates of TDS would apply for both contractors and sub-
contractors.
194C has been reduced from 1% to 0.75% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) ,
where the payee is an individual or HUF and 2% to 1.5% (i.e., ¾th of the
specified rate) in respect of other payees for the period from 14th May, 2020
to 31st March, 2021 [Section 197B].
The applicable rates of TDS under section 194C are as follows –
TDS rate
Payee From 1.4.2020 From 14.5.2020
to 13.5.2020 to 31.3.2021
Individual HUF contractor/sub- 1% 0.75%
contractor
Other than individual/HUF contractor/ 2% 1.5%
sub-contractor
Contractor in transport business (if Nil Nil
PAN is furnished)
Sub-contractor in transport business (if Nil Nil
PAN is furnished)
(4) Threshold limit for deduction of tax at source under section 194C
No deduction will be required to be made if the consideration for the contract
does not exceed ` 30,000. However, to prevent the practice of composite
contracts being split up into contracts valued at less than ` 30,000 to avoid
tax deduction, it has been provided that tax will be required to be deducted
at source where the amount credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid
to a contractor or sub-contractor exceeds ` 30,000 in a single payment or
` 1,00,000 in the aggregate during a financial year.
Therefore, even if a single payment to a contractor does not exceed ` 30,000,
TDS provisions under section 194C would be attracted where the aggregate
of the amounts of such sums credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid
to the contractor during the financial year exceeds ` 1,00,000.

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ILLUSTRATION 2
ABC Ltd. makes the following payments to Mr. X, a contractor, for contract work
during the P.Y.2020-21–
` 20,000 on 1.5.2020
` 25,000 on 1.8.2020
` 28,000 on 1.12.2020
On 1.3.2021, a payment of ` 30,000 is due to Mr. X on account of a contract work.
Discuss whether ABC Ltd. is liable to deduct tax at source under section 194C
from payments made to Mr. X.
SOLUTION
In this case, the individual contract payments made to Mr. X does not exceed
` 30,000. However, since the aggregate amount paid to Mr. X during the P.Y.
2020-21 exceeds ` 1,00,000 (on account of the last payment of ` 30,000, due on
1.3.2021, taking the total from ` 73,000 to ` 1,03,000), the TDS provisions under
section 194C would get attracted. Tax has to be deducted@0.75% on the entire
amount of ` 1,03,000 from the last payment of ` 30,000 and the balance of
` 29,227 (i.e., ` 30,000 – ` 773) has to be paid to Mr. X.
(5) Definition of work
Work includes –
(a) advertising;
(b) broadcasting and telecasting including production of programmes for
such broadcasting or telecasting;
(c) carriage of goods or passengers by any mode of transport other than
by railways;
(d) catering;
(e) manufacturing or supplying a product according to the requirement
or specification of a customer by using material purchased from
such customer or its associate, being a person related to the
customer in such manner as defined u/s 40A(2)(b), (i.e., the
customer would be in the place of assessee; and the associate would
be the related person(s) mentioned in that section).
However, “work” shall not include manufacturing or supplying a product
according to the requirement or specification of a customer by using raw

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material purchased from a person, other than such customer or associate of

such customer, as such a contract is a contract for ‘sale’. However, this will
not be applicable to a contract which does not entail manufacture or supply
of an article or thing (e.g. a construction contract).
It may be noted that the term “work” would include manufacturing or
supplying a product according to the requirement or specification of a
customer by using material purchased from such customer or its associate.
In such a case, tax shall be deducted on the invoice value excluding the value
of material purchased from such customer or its associate, if such value is
mentioned separately in the invoice. Where the material component has not
been separately mentioned in the invoice, tax shall be deducted on the whole
of the invoice value.
(6) Non-applicability of TDS under section 194C
No deduction is required to be made from the sum credited or paid or likely
to be credited or paid during the previous year to the account of a contractor,
during the course of the business of plying, hiring or leasing goods carriages,
if he furnishes his PAN to the deductor.
In order to convey the true intent of law, it has been clarified that this
relaxation from the requirement to deduct tax at source shall only be
applicable to the payment in the nature of transport charges (whether paid
by a person engaged in the business of transport or otherwise) made to a
contractor, who fulfills the following three conditions cumulatively -
is engaged in the
business of plying,
owns ten or hiring or leasing
less goods goods carriages
has furnished a
carriages at any declaration to this
time during the effect along with
previous year his PAN
Exemption
u/s
194C(6)
Meaning of Goods carriage:

Goods carriage means -
(i) any motor vehicle constructed or adapted for use solely for the carriage
of goods; or

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(ii) any motor vehicle not so constructed or adapted, when used for the
carriage of goods.
The term “motor vehicle” does not include vehicles having less than four
wheels and with engine capacity not exceeding 25cc as well as vehicles
running on rails or vehicles adapted for use in a factory or in enclosed
premises.
(7) Important points
(i) The deduction of income-tax will be made from sums paid for carrying
out any work or for supplying labour for carrying out any work. In other
words, the section will apply only in relation to ‘works contracts’ and
‘labour contracts’ and will not cover contracts for sale of goods.
(ii) Contracts for rendering professional services by lawyers, physicians,
surgeons, engineers, accountants, architects, consultants etc., cannot be
regarded as contracts for carrying out any “work” and, accordingly, no
deduction of income-tax is to be made from payments relating to such
contracts under this section. Separate provisions for fees for
professional services have been made under section 194J.
(iii) The deduction of income-tax must be made at the time of credit of the
sum to the account of the contractor, or at the time of payment thereof in
cash or by issue of a cheque or draft or by any other mode, whichever is
earlier.
(8) Deduction of tax at source on payment of gas transportation charges by
the purchaser of natural gas to the seller of gas [Circular No. 9/2012
dated 17.10.2012]
In case the Owner/Seller of the natural gas sells as well as transports the gas
to the purchaser till the point of delivery, where the ownership of gas to the
purchaser is simultaneously transferred, the manner of raising the sale bill
(whether the transportation charges are embedded in the cost of gas or
shown separately) does not alter the basic nature of such contract which
remains essentially a ‘contract for sale’ and not a ‘works contract’ as
envisaged in section 194C. Therefore, in such circumstances, the provisions
of Chapter XVIIB are not applicable on the component of Gas Transportation
Charges paid by the purchaser to the Owner/Seller of the gas. Further, the
use of different modes of transportation of gas by Owner/Seller will not alter
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However, transportation charges paid to a third party transporter of gas,

either by the Owner/Seller of the gas or purchaser of the gas or any other
person, shall continue to be governed by the appropriate provisions of the
Act and tax shall be deductible at source on such payment to the third party
at the applicable rates.
(9) Applicability of TDS provisions on payments by broadcasters or
Television Channels to production houses for production of content or
programme for telecasting [Circular No. 04/2016, dated 29-2-2016]
The issue under consideration is whether payments made by the
broadcaster/telecaster to production houses for production of
content/programme are payments under a ‘work contract’ liable for tax
deduction at source under section 194C or a contract for ‘professional or
technical services’ liable for tax deduction at source under section 194J.
In this regard, the CBDT has clarified that while applying the relevant
provisions of TDS on a contract for content production, a distinction is
required to be made between:
(i) a payment for production of content/programme as per the
specifications of the broadcaster/telecaster; and
(ii) a payment for acquisition of broadcasting/ telecasting rights of the
content already produced by the production house.
In the first situation where the content is produced as per the specifications
provided by the broadcaster/ telecaster and the copyright of the
content/programme also gets transferred to the telecaster/ broadcaster, such
contract is covered by the definition of the term work’ in section 194C and,
therefore, subject to TDS under that section.
However, in a case where the telecaster/broadcaster acquires only the
telecasting/ broadcasting rights of the content already produced by the
production house, there is no contract for ‘’carrying out any work”, as
required in section 194C(1). Therefore, such payments are not liable for TDS
under section 194C. However, payments of this nature may be liable for TDS
under other sections of Chapter XVII-B of the Act.
ILLUSTRATION 3
Certain concessions are granted to transport operators in the context of cash
payments u/s 40A(3) and deduction of tax at source u/s 194-C. Elucidate.

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SOLUTION
Section 40A(3) provides for disallowance of expenditure incurred in respect of
which payment or aggregate of payments made to a person in a day exceeds
` 10,000, and such payment or payments are made otherwise than by account
payee cheque or account payee bank draft or use of electronic clearing system
through bank account or through other prescribed electronic modes.
However, in case of payment made to transport operators for plying, hiring or leasing
goods carriages, the disallowance will be attracted only if the payment made to a
person in a day exceeds ` 35,000. Therefore, payment or aggregate of payments up to
` 35,000 in a day can be made to a transport operator otherwise than by way of
account payee cheque or account payee bank draft or use of electronic system through
bank account or through other prescribed electronic modes, without attracting
disallowance u/s 40A(3).
Under section 194C, tax had to be deducted in respect of payments made to
contractors at the rate of 1%/0.75%, in case the payment is made to individual or
Hindu Undivided Family or at the rate of 2%/1.5%, in any other case.
However, no deduction is required to be made from any sum credited or paid or
likely to be credited or paid during the previous year to the account of a contractor,
during the course of the business of plying, hiring or leasing goods carriages, if the
following conditions are fulfilled:-
(1) He owns ten or less goods carriages at any time during the previous year.
(2) He is engaged in the business of plying, hiring or leasing goods carriages;
(3) He has furnished a declaration to this effect along with his PAN.
3.8 Insurance Commission [Section 194D]
(1) Applicability of TDS under section 194D
Section 194D casts responsibility on any person responsible for paying to a
resident any income by way of remuneration or reward, whether by way of
commission or otherwise, for soliciting or procuring insurance business
(including the business relating to the continuance, renewal or revival of
policies of insurance) to deduct tax at source.
(2) Rate of TDS
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194D has been reduced from 5% to 3.75% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
The deduction is to be made at the time of the credit of the income to the
account of the payee or at the time of making the payment (by whatever
mode) to the payee, whichever is earlier.
(4) Threshold limit
The tax under this section has to be deducted at source only if the amount of
such income or the aggregate of the amounts of such income credited or
paid during the financial year to the account of the payee exceeds ` 15,000.
3.9 Payment in respect of life insurance policy [Section 194-DA]

(1) Taxability of sum received under a life insurance policy
Under section 10(10D), any sum received under a life insurance policy,
including the sum allocated by way of bonus on such policy is exempt subject
to fulfillment of conditions specified under the said section.
Consequently, the sum received under a life insurance policy which does not
fulfill the conditions specified under section 10(10D) is taxable.
(2) Rate of TDS
For ensuring a proper mechanism for reporting of transactions and collection
of tax in respect of sum paid under life insurance policies which are not
exempt under section 10(10D), section 194DA provides for deduction of tax
at the rate of 5% on the amount of income comprised therein i.e., after
deducting the amount of insurance premium paid by the resident assessee
from the total sum received.
194DA has been reduced from 5% to 3.75% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
(3) Threshold limit
Tax deduction is required only if the payment or aggregate payment of under
a life insurance policy, including the sum allocated by way of bonus in a

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financial year to an assessee is ` 1,00,000 or more. This is for alleviating the
compliance burden on the small tax payers.
ILLUSTRATION 4
Examine the applicability of the provisions for tax deduction at source under section
194DA in the following cases -
(i) Mr. X, a resident, is due to receive ` 4.50 lakhs on 31.3.2021, towards maturity
proceeds of LIC policy taken on 1.4.2018, for which the sum assured is ` 4 lakhs
and the annual premium is ` 1,25,000.
(ii) Mr. Y, a resident, is due to receive ` 3.25 lakhs on 31.3.2021 on LIC policy taken on
31.3.2012, for which the sum assured is ` 3 lakhs and the annual premium is ` 30,100.
(iii) Mr. Z, a resident, is due to receive ` 95,000 on 1.8.2020 towards maturity
proceeds of LIC policy taken on 1.8.2014 for which the sum assured is ` 90,000
and the annual premium was ` 10,000.
SOLUTION
(i) Since the annual premium exceeds 10% of sum assured in respect of a policy
taken after 31.3.2012, the maturity proceeds of ` 4.50 lakhs due on 31.3.2021
are not exempt under section 10(10D) in the hands of Mr. X. Therefore, tax is
required to be deducted@3.75% under section 194DA on the amount of
income comprised therein i.e., on ` 75,000 (` 4,50,000, being maturity proceeds
- ` 3,75,000, being the entire amount of insurance premium paid).
(ii) Since the annual premium is less than 20% of sum assured in respect of a
policy taken before 1.4.2012, the sum of ` 3.25 lakhs due to Mr. Y would be
exempt under section 10(10D) in his hands. Hence, no tax is required to be
deducted at source under section 194DA on such sum payable to Mr. Y.
(iii) Even though the annual premium exceeds 10% of sum assured in respect of
a policy taken after 31.3.2012, and consequently, the maturity proceeds of
` 95,000 due on 1.8.2020 would not be exempt under section 10(10D) in the
hands of Mr. Z, the tax deduction provisions under section 194DA are not
attracted since the maturity proceeds are less than ` 1 lakh.
3.10 Payments to non-resident sportsmen or sports associations
[Section 194E]
(1) Applicability
This section provides for deduction of tax at source in respect of any income
referred to in section 115BBA payable to a non-resident sportsman (including

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an athlete) or an entertainer who is not a citizen of India or a non-resident

sports association or institution.
(2) Rate of TDS
Deduction of tax at source @20% (plus surcharge, if applicable, and health
and education cess@4%) should be made by the person responsible for
making the payment. Surcharge, if applicable, and health and education cess
@4% would be added to TDS rate of 20%, since payment is made to a non-
resident.
(3) Time of deduction of tax
Such tax deduction should be at the time of credit of such income to the
account of the payee or at the time of payment thereof in cash or by issue of
a cheque or draft or by any other mode, whichever is earlier.
(4) Income referred to in section 115BBA
(i) income received or receivable by a non-resident sportsman who is not
a citizen of India (including an athlete) by way of-
(a) participation in any game or sport in India (However, games like
crossword puzzles, horse races etc. taxable under section 115BB
are not included herein); or
(b) advertisement; or
(c) contribution of articles relating to any game or sport in India in
newspapers, magazines or journals.
(ii) Guarantee amount paid or payable to a non-resident sports association
or institution in relation to any game or sport played in India. However,
games like crossword puzzles, horse races etc. taxable under section
115BB are not included herein.
(iii) income received or receivable by a non-resident entertainer (who is not
a citizen of India) from his performance in India.
ILLUSTRATION 5
Calculate the amount of tax to be deducted at source (TDS) on payment made to Ricky
Ponting, an Australian cricketer non-resident in India, by a newspaper for contribution
of articles ` 25,000.
SOLUTION
Under section 194E, the person responsible for payment of any amount to a non-

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resident sportsman for contribution of articles relating to any game or sport in India
in a newspaper shall deduct t ax @20%. Further, since Ricky Ponting is a non-
resident, health and education cess @4% on TDS would also be added.
Therefore, tax to be deducted = ` 25,000 x 20.8% = ` 5,200.
3.11 Payments in respect of deposits under National Savings Scheme
etc. [Section 194EE]
(1) Rate of TDS
The person responsible for paying to any person any amount from National
Savings Scheme Account shall deduct income-tax thereon at the rate of 10%
at the time of payment.
194EE has been reduced from 10% to 7.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
payments to residents for the period from 14th May, 2020 to 31st March,
2021 [Section 197B].
(2) Threshold limit
No such deduction shall be made where the amount of payment or the
aggregate amount of payments in a financial year is less than ` 2,500.
(3) Non-applicability of TDS under section 194EE
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the payments made to the
heirs of the assessee.
3.12 Repurchase of units by Mutual Fund or Unit Trust of India [Section 194F]
A person responsible for paying to any person any amount on account of
repurchase of units covered under section 80CCB(2) 3 shall deduct tax at source at
the rate of 20% at the time of payment of such amount.
In order to provide more funds at the disposal of the taxpayers for dealing with the
economic situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of TDS u/s 194F has
been reduced from 20% to 15% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for payments to residents
during the period from 14th May, 2020 to 31st March, 2021[Section 197B].
3
Deduction u/s 80CCB was available in respect of investment made in notified units of UTI or
Mutual Funds during the PYs 1990-91 and 1991-92

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3.13 Commission etc. on the sale of lottery tickets [Section 194G]

Under section 194G, the person responsible for paying to any person any
income by way of commission, remuneration or prize (by whatever name
called) on lottery tickets in an amount exceeding ` 15,000 shall deduct
income-tax thereon at the rate of 5%.
194G has been reduced from 5% to 3.75% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
payments to residents during the period from 14th May, 2020 to 31st March,
2021[Section 197B].
(2) Time of deduction of tax
Such deduction should be made at the time of credit of such income to the
account of the payee or at the time of payment of such income by cash,
cheque, draft or any other mode, whichever is earlier.
Where any such income is credited to any account, whether called “Suspense
Account” or by any other name, in the books of account of the person liable
to pay such income, such crediting shall be deemed to be credit of such
income to the account of the payee and the provisions of this section shall
apply accordingly.
3.14 Commission or brokerage [Section 194H]
Any person other than an individual or HUF, who is responsible for paying
any income by way of commission (other than insurance commission) or
brokerage to a resident shall deduct income tax at the rate of 5%.
However, an individual or HUF whose total sales, gross receipts or turnover
from the business or profession carried on by him exceed ` 1 crore in case
of business and ` 50 lakhs in case of profession during the financial year
immediately preceding financial year in which such commission or brokerage
is credited or paid, is liable to deduct tax at source.
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The deduction shall be made at the time such income is credited to the
account of the payee or at the time of payment in cash or by issue of cheque
Even where income is credited to some other account, whether called
“Suspense account” or by any other name, in the books of account of the
person liable to pay such income, such crediting shall be deemed to be credit
to the account of the payee for the purposes of this section.
(3) Threshold limit
No deduction is required if the amount of such income or the aggregate of
such amount does not exceed ` 15,000 during the financial year.
(4) Meaning of “Commission or brokerage”
“Commission or brokerage” includes any payment received or receivable,
directly or indirectly, by a person acting on behalf of another person for
services rendered, or for any services in the course of buying or selling of
goods, or in relation to any transaction relating to any asset, valuable article
or thing, other than securities.
(5) Non-applicability of TDS under section 194H
(i) This section is not applicable to professional services. “Professional
Services” means services rendered by a person in the course of carrying
on legal, medical, engineering or architectural profession or the
profession of accountancy or technical consultancy or interior
decoration or such other profession as notified by the CBDT for the
purpose of compulsory maintenance of books of account under section
44AA.
(ii) Further, there would be no requirement to deduct tax at source on
commission or brokerage payments by BSNL or MTNL to their public
call office (PCO) franchisees.
(6) Applicability of TDS provisions on payments by television channels and
publishing houses to advertisement companies for procuring or
canvassing for advertisements [Circular No. 05/2016, dated 29-2-2016]
There are two types of payments involved in the advertising business:
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(ii) Payment by advertising agency to the television channel/newspaper

company
The applicability of TDS on these payments has already been dealt with in
Circular No. 715 dated 8-8-1995, where it has been clarified in Question Nos.
1 & 2 that while TDS under section 194C (as work contract) will be applicable
on the first type of payment, there will be no TDS under section 194C on the
second type of payment e.g. payment by advertising agency to the media
company.
However, another issue has been raised in various cases as to whether the
fees/charges taken or retained by advertising companies from media
companies for canvasing/booking advertisements (typically 15% of the
billing) is 'commission' or 'discount' for attracting the provisions of section
194H.
The CBDT has clarified that no TDS is attracted on payments made by
television channels/newspaper companies to the advertising agency for
booking or procuring of or canvassing for advertisements. It is also further
clarified that 'commission' referred to in Question No.27 of the CBDT's
Circular No. 715 dated 8-8-1995 does not refer to payments by media
companies to advertising companies for booking of advertisements but to
payments for engagement of models, artists, photographers, sportspersons,
etc. and, therefore, is not relevant to the issue of TDS referred to in this
Circular.
ILLUSTRATION 6
Moon TV, a television channel, made payment of ` 50 lakhs to a production house
for production of programme for telecasting as per the specifications given by the
channel. The copyright of the programme is also transferred to Moon TV. Would such
payment be liable for tax deduction at source under section 194C? Discuss.
Also, examine whether the provisions of tax deduction at source under section 194C
would be attracted if the payment was made by Moon TV for acquisition of telecasting
rights of the content already produced by the production house.
SOLUTION
In this case, since the programme is produced by the production house as per the
specifications given by Moon TV, a television channel, and the copyright is also
transferred to the television channel, the same falls within the scope of definition
of the term ‘work’ under section 194C. Therefore, the payment of ` 50 lakhs made

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by Moon TV to the production house would be subject to tax deduction at source
under section 194C.
If, however, the payment was made by Moon TV for acquisition of telecasting rights
of the content already produced by the production house, there is no contract for
‘’carrying out any work”, as required in section 194C(1). Therefore, such payment
would not be liable for tax deduction at source under section 194C.
3.15 Rent [Section 194-I]
Any person other than individual or HUF, who is responsible for paying to a
resident any income by way of rent, shall deduct income tax at the rate of:
(i) 2% in respect of rent for plant, machinery or equipment;
(ii) 10% in respect of other rental payments (i.e., rent for use of any land
or building, including factory building, or land appurtenant to a
building, including factory building, or furniture or fittings).
However, an individual or HUF whose total sales, gross receipts or turnover
from the business or profession carried on by him exceed ` 1 crore in case of
business and ` 50 lakhs in case of profession during the financial year
immediately preceding financial year in which such rent was credited or paid,
is liable to deduct tax at source.
194-I has been reduced from 2% to 1.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) , in
respect of rent for plant, machinery or equipment and 10% to 7.5% (i.e., ¾th
of the specified rate) in respect of other rental payments for the period from
14th May, 2020 to 31st March, 2021 [Section 197B].
This deduction is to be made at the time of credit of such income to the
account of the payee or at the time of payment thereof in cash or by issue of
cheque or draft or by any other mode, whichever is earlier.
Where any such income is credited to any account, whether called “Suspense
account” or by any other name, in the books of account of the person liable
to pay such income, such crediting shall be deemed to be credit of such
income to the account of the payee and the provisions of this section will
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(3) Threshold limit

No deduction need be made where the amount of such income or the
aggregate of the amounts of such income credited or paid or likely to be
credited or paid during the financial year to the account of the payee does
not exceed ` 2,40,000.
(4) Meaning of Rent
“Rent” means any payment, by whatever name called, under any lease, sub-
lease, tenancy or any other agreement or arrangement for the use of (either
separately or together) any –
(a) land; or
(b) building (including factory building); or
(c) land appurtenant to a building (including factory building); or
(d) machinery; or
(e) plant; or
(f) equipment; or
(g) furniture; or
(h) fittings,
whether or not any or all of the above are owned by the payee.
(5) Applicability of TDS provisions under section 194-I to payments made by
the customers on account of cooling charges to the cold storage owners
CBDT Circular No.1/2008 dated 10.1.2008 provides clarification regarding
applicability of provisions of section 194-I to payments made by the
customers on account of cooling charges to the cold storage owners.
The main function of the cold storage is to preserve perishable goods by
means of a mechanical process, and storage of such goods is only incidental
in nature. The customer is also not given any right to use any demarcated
space/place or the machinery of the cold store and thus does not become a
tenant. Therefore, the provisions of 194-I are not applicable to the cooling
charges paid by the customers of the cold storage.
However, since the arrangement between the customers and cold storage
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be applicable to the amounts paid as cooling charges by the customers of
the cold storage.
(6) No requirement to deduct tax at source under section 194-I on remittance
of Passenger Service Fees (PSF) by an Airline to an Airport Operator
[Circular No. 21/2017, dated 12.06.2017]
Section 194-I requires deduction of tax at source at specified percentage on
any income payable to a resident by way of rent. Explanation to this section
defines the term “rent” as any payment, by whatever name called, under any
lease, sub-lease, tenancy or any other agreement or arrangement for the use
of any (a) land; or (b) building; or (c) land appurtenant to a building; or (d)
machinery; (e) plant; (f) equipment (g) furniture; or (h) fitting, whether or not
any or all of them are owned by the payee.
The primary requirement of any payment to qualify as rent is that the payment
must be for the use of land and building and mere incidental/minor/ insignificant
use of the same while providing other facilities and service would not make it a
payment for use of land and buildings so as to attract section 194-I.
Accordingly, the CBDT has, vide this circular, clarified that the provisions of
section 194-I shall not be applicable on payment of PSF by an airline to
Airport Operator.
(7) Applicability of TDS provisions under section 194-I to service tax
component of rental income
CBDT Circular No.4/2008 dated 28.4.2008 provides clarification on deduction of tax
at source (TDS) on service tax component of rental income under section 194-I.
As per the provisions of 194-I, tax is deductible at source on income by way
of rent paid to any resident. Further, rent has been defined in 194-I to mean
any payment, by whatever name called, under any lease, sub-lease, tenancy
or any other agreement or arrangement for the use of (either separately or
together) any,-
(a) land; or
(b) building (including factory building); or
(c) land appurtenant to a building (including factory building); or
(d) machinery; or
(e) plant; or
(f) equipment; or

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(g) furniture; or
(h) fittings,
whether or not any or all of the above are owned by the payee.
Service tax paid by the tenant doesn’t partake the nature of income of the
landlord. The landlord only acts as a collecting agency for Government for
collection of service tax. Therefore, tax deduction at source under section
194-I would be required to be made on the amount of rent paid/payable
without including the service tax.
Note- It is possible to take a view that the clarification given in Circular
No.4/2008 would apply in the GST regime also.
Clarification regarding TDS on Goods and Services Tax (GST) component

comprised in payments made to residents [Circular No. 23/2017 dated
19.07.2017]
The CBDT had, vide Circular No. 1/2014 dated 13.01.2014, clarified that
wherever in terms of the agreement or contract between the payer and the
payee, the service tax component comprised in the amount payable to a
resident is indicated separately, tax shall be deducted at source on the
amount paid or payable without including such service tax component.
In order to harmonize the same treatment with the new system for taxation
of services under the GST regime w.e.f. 01.07.2017, the CBDT has, vide this
circular, clarified that wherever in terms of the agreement or contract
between the payer and the payee, the component of 'GST on services'
comprised in the amount payable to a resident is indicated separately, tax
shall be deducted at source on the amount paid or payable without including
such 'GST on services' component.
GST shall include Integrated Goods and Services Tax, Central Goods and Services
Tax, State Goods and Services Tax and Union Territory Goods and Services Tax.
Further, for the purposes of this Circular, any reference to “service tax” in an
existing agreement or contract which was entered into prior to 01.07.2017
shall be treated as “GST on services” with respect to the period from
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(8) Clarification on applicability of TDS provisions of section 194-I on
lumpsum lease premium paid for acquisition of long term lease [Circular
No.35/2016, dated 13-10-2016]
The issue of whether or not TDS under section 194-I is applicable on 'lump
sum lease premium' or 'one-time upfront lease charges" paid by an assessee
for acquiring long-term leasehold rights for land or any other property has
been examined by the CBDT.
Accordingly, the CBDT has, vide this Circular, clarified that lump sum lease
premium or one-time upfront lease charges, which are not adjustable against
periodic rent, paid or payable for acquisition of long-term leasehold rights
over land or any other property are not payments in the nature of rent within
the meaning of section 194-I. Therefore, such payments are not liable for TDS
under section 194-I.
3.16 Payment on transfer of certain immovable property other than
agricultural land [Section 194-IA]
(1) Applicability and Rate
Every transferee responsible for paying any sum as consideration for transfer of
immovable property (land, other than agricultural land, or building or part of
building) to a resident transfer shall deduct tax, at the rate of 1% of such sum.
“Agricultural land”, for the purpose of this section, means rural agricultural
land. In other words, transfer of urban agricultural land, will attract the
provision of section 194-IA, if the consideration is ` 50 lakhs or more.
194-IA has been reduced from 1% to 0.75% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
The deduction is to be made at the time of credit of such sum to the account
of the resident transferor or at the time of payment of such sum to a resident
transferor, whichever is earlier.
(3) Threshold limit
Tax is not required to be deducted at source where the total amount of
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(4) Non-applicability of TDS under section 194-IA

Since tax deduction at source for compulsory acquisition of immovable
property is covered under section 194LA, the provisions of section 194-IA do
not get attracted in the hands of the transferee in such cases.
(5) No requirement to obtain TAN
The provisions of section 203A containing the requirement of obtaining Tax
deduction account number (TAN) shall not apply to the person required to
deduct tax in accordance with the provisions of section 194-IA.
(6) Meaning of consideration for transfer of immovable property
Consideration for transfer of immovable property include all charges of the
nature of club membership fee, car parking fee, electricity or water facility
fee, maintenance fee, advance fee or any other charges of similar nature,
which are incidental to transfer of the immovable property.
ILLUSTRATION 7
Mr. X sold his house property in Bangalore as well as his rural agricultural land for a
consideration of ` 60 lakh and ` 15 lakh, respectively, to Mr. Y on 1.8.2020. He has
purchased the house property and the land in the year 2019 for ` 40 lakh and ` 10
lakh, respectively. The stamp duty value on the date of transfer, i.e., 1.8.2020, is ` 85
lakh and ` 20 lakh for the house property and rural agricultural land, respectively.
Examine the tax implications in the hands of Mr. X and Mr. Y and the TDS
implications, if any, in the hands of Mr. Y, assuming that both Mr. X and Mr. Y are
resident Indians.
SOLUTION
(i) Tax implications in the hands of Mr. X

As per section 50C, the stamp duty value of house property (i.e. ` 85 lakh)
would be deemed to be the full value of consideration arising on transfer
of property, since the stamp duty value exceeds 110% of the consideration
received. Therefore, ` 45 lakh (i.e., ` 85 lakh – ` 40 lakh, being the purchase
price) would be taxable as short-term capital gains in the A.Y.2021-22.
Since rural agricultural land is not a capital asset, the gains arising on sale
of such land is not taxable in the hands of Mr. X.

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(ii) Tax implications in the hands of Mr. Y
In case immovable property is received for inadequate consideration, the

difference between the stamp value and actual consideration would be
taxable under section 56(2)(x), if such difference exceeds the higher of
` 50,000 and 10% of the consideration.
Therefore, in this case ` 25 lakh (` 85 lakh – ` 60 lakh) would be taxable in
the hands of Mr. Y under section 56(2)(x).
Since agricultural land is not a capital asset, the provisions of section
56(2)(x) are not attracted in respect of receipt of agricultural land for
inadequate consideration, since the definition of “property” under section
56(2)(x) includes only capital assets specified thereunder.
(iii) TDS implications in the hands of Mr. Y
Since the sale consideration of house property exceeds ` 50 lakh, Mr. Y is

required to deduct tax at source under section 194-IA. The tax to be deducted
under section 194-IA would be ` 45,000, being 0.75% of ` 60 lakh.
TDS provisions under section 194-IA are not attracted in respect of transfer
of rural agricultural land.
3.17 Payment of rent by certain individuals or Hindu undivided family

[Section194-IB]
Section 194-IB requires any person, being individual or HUF, other than those
individual or HUF whose total sales, gross receipts or turnover from the business
or profession exceeds ` 1 crore in case of business and ` 50 lakhs in case of
profession in the financial year immediately preceding the financial year in which
such rent was credited or paid, responsible for paying to a resident any income
by way of rent, to deduct income tax at the rate of 5%.
194-IB has been reduced from 5% to 3.75% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
(2) Threshold limit
Under this section, tax has to be deducted at source only if the amount of such
rent exceeds ` 50,000 for a month or part of a month during the previous year.

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This deduction is to be made at the time of credit of such rent, for the last
month of the previous year or the last month of tenancy, if the property is
vacated during the year, as the case may be, to the account of the payee or
at the time of payment thereof in cash or by issue of cheque or draft or by
any other mode, whichever is earlier.
deduct tax in accordance with the provisions of section 194-IB.
(5) Meaning of “Rent”
“Rent” means any payment, by whatever name called, under any lease, sub-
lease, tenancy or any other agreement or arrangement for the use of any land
or building or both.
(6) Deduction not to exceed rent for last month
Section 206AA requires providing of Permanent Account Number (PAN) of
the deductee to the deductor, failing which tax shall be deducted at a higher
rate (i.e., higher of the rate provided in the relevant section, rates in force and
20%). Where the tax is required to be deducted as per the provisions of
section 206AA, such deduction shall not exceed the amount of rent payable
for the last month of the previous year or the last month of the tenancy, as
the case may be.
ILLUSTRATION 8
Mr. X, a salaried individual, pays rent of ` 55,000 per month to Mr. Y from June, 2020.
Is he required to deduct tax at source? If so, when is he required to deduct tax? Also,
compute the amount of tax to be deducted at source.
Would your answer change if Mr. X vacated the premises on 31st December, 2020?
Also, what would be your answer if Mr. Y does not provide his PAN to Mr. X?
SOLUTION
Since Mr. X pays rent exceeding ` 50,000 per month in the F.Y. 2020-21, he is liable
to deduct tax at source @3.75% of such rent for F.Y. 2020-21 under section 194-IB.
Thus, ` 20,625 [` 55,000 x 3.75% x 10] has to be deducted from rent payable for
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If Mr. X vacated the premises in December, 2020, then tax of ` 14,438 [` 55,000 x
3.75% x 7] has to be deducted from rent payable for December, 2020.
In case Mr. Y does not provide his PAN to Mr. X, tax would be deductible@20%,
instead of 3.75%.
In case 1 above, this would amount to ` 1,10,000 [` 55,000 x 20% x 10] but the
same has to be restricted to ` 55,000, being rent for March, 2021.
In case 2 above, this would amount to ` 77,000 [` 55,000 x 20% x 7] but the same
has to be restricted to ` 55,000, being rent for December, 2020.
3.18 Payment under specified agreement [Section 194-IC]
(1) Applicability and Rate
This section casts responsibility on any person responsible for paying to a
resident any sum by way of consideration, not being consideration in kind,
under a specified agreement under section 45(5A), to deduct income-tax at
the rate of 10%.
194-IC has been reduced from 10% to 7.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
This deduction is to be made at the time of credit of such sum to the account
of the payee or at the time of payment thereof in cash or by issue of cheque
(3) Non-applicability of section 194-IA
Since tax deduction at source for specified agreement under section 45(5A)
is covered under section 194-IC, the provisions of section 194-IA do not get
attracted in the hands of the transferee in such cases.
(4) Meaning of specified agreement
Specified agreement under section 45(5A):
- It means a registered agreement in which a person owning land or
building or both, agrees to allow another person to develop a real
estate project on such land or building or both.
- The consideration, in this case, is a share, being land or building or both
in such project; Part of the consideration may also be in cash.

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3.19 Fees for professional or technical services [Section 194J]

Every person other than an individual or a HUF, who is responsible for paying
to a resident any sum by way of –
(i) fees for professional services; or
(ii) fees for technical services; or
(iii) any remuneration or fees or commission, by whatever name called,
other than those on which tax is deductible under section 192, to a
director of a company; or
(iv) royalty, or
(v) non-compete fees referred to in section 28(va)
shall deduct tax at source at the rate of –
(a) 2% in case of fees for technical services (not being professional
services) or royalty in the nature of consideration for sale,
distribution or exhibition of cinematographic films; and
(b) 10% in other cases.
However, in case of a payee, engaged only in the business of operation of call
centre, the tax shall be deducted at source @2%.
194J has been reduced from 2% to 1.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) in
case of fees for technical services (not being professional services) or royalty in
the nature of consideration for sale, distribution or exhibition of
cinematographic films or a payee engaged only in the business of operation of
call centre; and from 10% to 7.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) in other cases
for the period from 14th May, 2020 to 31st March, 2021 [Section 197B].
The deduction is to be made at the time of credit of such sum to the account
of the payee or at the time of payment thereof in cash or by issue of a cheque
Where such sum is credited to any account, whether called suspense account
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such sum, such crediting shall be deemed to be credit of such sum to the
account of the payee and tax has to be deducted accordingly.
(3) Threshold limit
No tax deduction is required if the amount of fees or the aggregate of the
amounts of fees credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid during a
financial year does not exceed ` 30,000 in the case of fees for professional
services, ` 30,000 in the case of fees for technical services, ` 30,000 in the
case of royalty and ` 30,000 in the case of non-compete fees.
The limit of ` 30,000 under section 194J is applicable separately for fees for
professional services, fees for technical services, royalty and non-compete
fees referred to in section 28(va). It implies that if the payment to a person
towards each of the above is less than ` 30,000, no tax is required to be
deducted at source, even though the aggregate payment or credit exceeds
` 30,000. However, there is no such exemption limit for deduction of tax on
any remuneration or fees or commission payable to director of a company.
Summary of rates and threshold limit under section 194J for deduction
of tax at source
TDS rate
From From Separate
Nature of payment 1.4.2020 14.5.2020 Limit
to to
13.5.2020 31.3.2021
Fees for technical services (not 2% 1.5% ` 30,000
being professional services)
Fees for professional services 10% 7.5% ` 30,000
Royalty in the nature of 2% 1.5%
consideration for sale, distribution
or exhibition of cinematographic ` 30,000
films
Other royalty 10% 7.5%
Any remuneration or fees or 10% 7.5% Nil
commission, by whatever name
called, other than those on which
tax is deductible under section 192,
to a director of a company
Non-compete fees 10% 7.5% ` 30,000

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In case of a payee, engaged only in the business of operation of call centre, the
tax shall be deducted at source @2% (1.5% during the period from
14.5.2020 to 31.3.2021)
ILLUSTRATION 9
XYZ Ltd. makes a payment of ` 28,000 to Mr. Ganesh on 2.8.2020 towards fees
for professional services and another payment of ` 25,000 to him on the same
date towards fees for technical services. Discuss whether TDS provisions under
section 194J are attracted.
SOLUTION
TDS provisions under section 194J would not get attracted, since the limit of
` 30,000 is applicable for fees for professional services and fees for technical services,
separately. It is assumed that there is no other payment to Mr. Ganesh towards fees
for professional services and fees for technical services during the P.Y.2020-21.
(4) Non-applicability of TDS under section 194J
(i) An individual or a Hindu undivided family is not liable to deduct tax at source.
However, an individual or HUF, whose total sales, gross receipts or
turnover from business or profession carried by him exceeds ` 1 crore
in case of business or ` 50 lakhs in case of profession in the financial
year immediately preceding the financial year in which the fees for
professional services or fees for technical services is credited or paid
is required to deduct tax on such fees.
Note - It may be noted that individuals and HUFs are not required to
deduct tax at source under section 194J on royalty and non-compete fees.
(ii) Further, an individual or Hindu Undivided Family, shall not be liable to deduct
income-tax on the sum payable by way of fees for professional services, in
case such sum is credited or paid exclusively for personal purposes.
(5) Meaning of “Professional services”
“Professional services” means services rendered by a person in the course of
carrying on legal, medical, engineering or architectural profession or the
profession of accountancy or technical consultancy or interior decoration or
advertising or such other profession as is notified by the CBDT for the
purposes of section 44AA or of this section.

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Other professions notified for the purposes of section 44AA are as follows:
(a) Profession of “authorised representatives”;
(b) Profession of “film artist”;
(c) Profession of “company secretary”;
(d) Profession of “information technology”.
The CBDT has notified the services rendered by following persons in relation to
the sports activities as Professional Services for the purpose of the section 194J:
(a) Sports Persons,
(b) Umpires and Referees,
(c) Coaches and Trainers,
(d) Team Physicians and Physiotherapists,
(e) Event Managers,
(f) Commentators,
(g) Anchors and
(h) Sports Columnists.
Accordingly, the requirement of TDS as per section 194J would apply to all
the aforesaid professions. The term “profession”, as such, is of a very wide
import. However, the term has been defined in this section exhaustively. For
the purposes of TDS, therefore, all other professions would be outside the
scope of section 194J. For example, this section will not apply to professions
of teaching, sculpture, painting etc. unless they are notified.
(6) Meaning of “Fees for technical services”
The term ‘fees for technical services’ means any consideration (including any
lump sum consideration) for rendering of any of the following services:
(i) Managerial services;
(ii) Technical services;
(iii) Consultancy services;
(iv) Provision of services of technical or other personnel.
It is expressly provided that the term ‘fees for technical services’ will not
include following types of consideration:
(i) Consideration for any construction, assembly, mining or like project, or
(ii) Consideration which is chargeable under the head ‘Salaries’.

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(7) TPAs liable to deduct tax under section 194J on payment to hospitals on
behalf of insurance companies
The CBDT has, through Circular No.8/2009 dated 24.11.2009, clarified that
TPAs (Third Party Administrator’s) who are making payment on behalf of
insurance companies to hospitals for settlement of medical/insurance claims
etc. under various schemes including cashless schemes are liable to deduct
tax at source under section 194J on all such payments to hospitals etc. This
is because the services rendered by hospitals to various patients are primarily
medical services and, therefore, the provisions of section 194J are applicable
to payments made by TPAs to hospitals etc.
(8) Consideration for use or right to use of computer software is royalty within
the meaning of section 9(1)(vi)
As per section 9(1)(vi), any income payable by way of royalty in respect of any
right, property or information is deemed to accrue or arise in India. The term
“royalty” means consideration for transfer of all or any right in respect of
certain rights, property or information.
The consideration for use or right to use of computer software is royalty by
clarifying that, transfer of all or any rights in respect of any right, property or
information includes and has always included transfer of all or any right for
use or right to use a computer software (including granting of a licence)
irrespective of the medium through which such right is transferred.
Consequently, the provisions of tax deduction at source under section 194J
would be attracted in respect of consideration for use or right to use
computer software since the same falls within the definition of royalty.
Note - The Central Government has, vide Notification No.21/2012 dated

13.6.2012, effective from 1st July, 2012, exempted certain software payments
from the applicability of tax deduction under section 194J. Accordingly, where
payment is made by the transferee for acquisition of software from a resident-
transferor, the provisions of section 194J would not be attracted if -
(1) the software is acquired in a subsequent transfer without any modification
by the transferor;
(2) tax has been deducted under section 194J on payment for any previous
transfer of such software; and
(3) the transferee obtains a declaration from the transferor that tax has been
so deducted along with the PAN of the transferor.

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3.20 Income in respect of units [Section 194K]
(1) Applicability and rate of tax
Section 194K provides for deduction of tax at source @10% by any person
responsible for paying to a resident any income in respect of –
(i) units of a Mutual fund
(ii) units from Administrator of the specified undertaking
(iii) units from the specified company
In order to provide more funds at the disposal of the taxpayers for dealing with the
economic situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of TDS u/s 194K
has been reduced from 10% to 7.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for the period
from 14th May, 2020 to 31st March, 2021[Section 197B].
The deduction is to be made at the time of credit of such sum to the account of
the payee or at the time of payment by any mode, whichever is earlier.
Where any income in respect of units of a mutual fund, Administrator of the
specified undertaking or the specified company is credited to any account in the
books of account of the person liable to pay such income, such crediting is deemed
to be credit of such income to the account of the payee and tax has to be deducted
at source. The account to which such income is credited may be called “Suspense
account” or by any other name.
(3) Non-applicability of section 194K
No tax is required to be deducted if -
(i) the amount of such income or the aggregate of the amounts of such
income credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid during a financial
year does not exceed ` 5,000; or
(ii) the income is of the nature of capital gains.
3.21 Payment of compensation on acquisition of certain immovable
property [Section 194LA]
(1) Applicability
Section 194LA provides for deduction of tax at source by a person responsible
for paying to a resident any sum in the nature of –
(i) compensation or the enhanced compensation or

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(ii) the consideration or the enhanced consideration

on account of compulsory acquisition, under any law for the time being in
force, of any immovable property (other than agricultural land).
Immovable property means any land (other than agricultural land) or any
building or part of a building.
“Agricultural land” for the purpose of this section means any land situated in
India including urban agricultural land.
(2) Rate of TDS
The amount of tax to be deducted is 10% of such sum mentioned in (1)
above.
194-LA has been reduced from 10% to 7.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
The tax should be deducted at the time of payment of such sum in cash or by
issue of a cheque or draft or by any other mode, whichever is earlier.
(4) Threshold limit
No tax is required to be deducted where the amount of such payment or, as
the case may be, the aggregate amount of such payments to a resident during
the financial year does not exceed ` 2,50,000.
3.22 Payment made by an individual or a HUF for contract work or by

way of commission or brokerage or fees for professional services
or [Section 194M]
(1) Applicability and rate of TDS
Section 194M provides for deduction of tax at source @5% by an individual
or a HUF responsible for paying any sum during the financial year to any
resident –
(i) for carrying out any work (including supply of labour for carrying out
any work) in pursuance of a contract; or
(ii) by way of commission (not being insurance commission referred to in
section 194D) or brokerage; or

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(iii) by way of fees for professional services.
It may be noted that only individuals and HUFs (other than those who are
required to deduct income-tax as per the provisions of section 194C or 194H
or 194J) are required to deduct tax in respect of the above sums payable
during the financial year to a resident.
194-M has been reduced from 5% to 3.75% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
The tax should be deducted at the time of credit of such sum or at the time
of payment of such sum, whichever is earlier.
(3) Threshold limit
No tax is required to be deducted where such sum or, as the case may be,
aggregate amount of such sums credited or paid to a resident during the
financial year does not exceed ` 50,00,000
(4) Non-applicability of TDS under section 194M
An individual or a Hindu undivided family is not liable to deduct tax at source
u/s 194M if –
(i) they are required to deduct tax at source u/s 194C for carrying out any
work (including supply of labour for carrying out any work) in
pursuance of a contract i.e., an individual or a HUF whose total sales,
gross receipts or turnover from the business or profession carried
on by him exceeds ` 1 crore in case of business and ` 50 lakhs in
case of profession during the immediately preceding financial year
and such amount is not exclusively credited or paid for personal
purposes of such individual or HUF.
(ii) they are required to deduct tax at source u/s 194H on commission (not
being insurance commission referred to in section 194D) or brokerage
i.e., an individual or a HUF whose total sales, gross receipts or turnover
from the business or profession carried on by him exceeds ` 1 crore in
case of business and ` 50 lakhs in case of profession during the
immediately preceding financial year.
(iii) they are required to deduct tax at source u/s 194J on fees for professional
services i.e., an individual or a HUF whose total sales, gross receipts or

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turnover from the business or profession carried on by him exceeds ` 1

crore in case of business and ` 50 lakhs in case of profession during the
immediately preceding financial year and such amount is not exclusively
credited or paid for personal purposes of such individual or HUF.
deduct tax in accordance with the provisions of section 194M.
(6) Time and mode of payment of tax deducted at source under section 194-
IA, 194-IB and 194M to the credit of Central Government, furnishing
challan-cum-statement and TDS Certificate [Rules 30, 31A & 31]
(i) Such sum deducted u/s 194-IA, 194-IB and 194M shall be paid to the credit of
the Central Government within a period of 30 days from the end of the month
in which the deduction is made and shall be accompanied by a challan-cum-
statement in Form No.26QB, 26QC and 26QD, respectively [Rule 30].
(ii) The amount so deducted has to be deposited to the credit of the Central
Government by electronic remittance within the above mentioned time
limit, into RBI, SBI or any authorized bank [Rule 30].
(iii) Every person responsible for deduction of tax u/s 194-IA, 194-IB and 194M
shall also furnish to the PDGIT (Systems) (in case of section 194IB and 194M),
DGIT (Systems) or any person authorized by them, a challan-cum-statement
in Form No.26QB, 26QC and 26QD, respectively, electronically within 30
days from the end of the month in which the deduction is made [Rule 31A].
(iv) Every person responsible for deduction of tax u/s 194-IA, 194-IB and 194M
shall furnish the TDS certificate in Form No.16B, 16C and 16D, respectively,
to the payee within 15 days from the due date for furnishing the challan-
cum-statement in Form No.26QB, 26QC and 26QD, respectively, under
Rule 31A, after generating and downloading the same from the web portal
specified by the PDGIT (Systems) (in case of section 194-IB and 194M) or
DGIT (Systems) or the person authorized by him [Rule 31]
Note - For the meaning of the terms “Work”, “Professional services” and “Commission
or brokerage” refer sub-heading “3.7 Payments to contractors and sub-contractors
[Section 194C]”, “3.19 Fees for professional or technical services [Section 194J]” and “3.14
Commission or brokerage [Section 194H]”, respectively.

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ILLUSTRATION 10
Examine whether TDS provisions would be attracted in the following cases, and if so,
under which section. Also specify the rate of TDS applicable in each case. Assume that
all payments are made to residents.
Particulars of the payer Nature of payment Aggregate of

payments made in
the F.Y.2020-21
1 Mr. Ganesh, an individual Contract Payment for ` 5 lakhs
carrying on retail business repair of residential house
with turnover of ` 2.5 Payment of commission to ` 80,000
crores in the P.Y.2019-20 Mr. Vallish for business
purposes
2. Mr. Rajesh, a wholesale Contract Payment for ` 20 lakhs in
trader whose turnover was reconstruction of January, 2021, ` 15
` 95 lakhs in P.Y. 2019-20. residential house (made lakhs in Feb 2021
during the period January- and ` 20 lakhs in
March, 2021) March 2021.
3. Mr. Satish, a salaried Payment of brokerage for ` 51 lakhs
individual buying a residential house
in March, 2021
4. Mr. Dheeraj, a pensioner Contract payment made ` 48 lakhs
during October-November
2020 for reconstruction of
residential house
SOLUTION
Particulars of Nature of Aggregate of Whether TDS provisions

the payer payment payments in are attracted?
the F.Y.2020-
21
1 Mr. Ganesh, Contract ` 5 lakhs No; TDS under section
an individual Payment for 194C is not attracted since
carrying on repair of the payment is for personal
retail business residential purpose. TDS under section
with turnover house 194M is not attracted as
of ` 2.5 crores aggregate of contract
payment to the payee in

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in the the P.Y.2020-21 does not

P.Y.2019-20 exceed ` 50 lakh.
Payment of ` 80,000 Yes, u/s 194H, since the
commission payment exceeds
to Mr. Vallish ` 15,000, and Mr. Ganesh’s
for business turnover exceeds ` 1 crore
purposes in the P.Y.2019-20.
2. Mr. Rajesh, a Contract ` 55 lakhs Yes, under section 194M,
wholesale Payment for since the aggregate of
trader whose reconstruction payments (i.e., ` 55 lakhs)
turnover was of residential exceed ` 50 lakhs. Since, his
` 95 lakhs in house turnover does not exceed 1
P.Y. 2019-20 crore in the P.Y.2019-20,
TDS provisions under
section 194C are not
attracted in respect of
payments made in the
P.Y.2020-21.
3. Mr. Satish, a Payment of ` 51 lakhs Yes, under section 194M,
salaried brokerage for since the payment of
individual buying a ` 51 lakhs made in March
residential 2021 exceeds the threshold
house of ` 50 lakhs. Since
Mr. Satish is a salaried
individual, the provisions of
section 194H are not
applicable in this case.
4. Mr. Dheeraj, a Contract ` 48 lakhs TDS provisions under
pensioner payment for section 194C are not
reconstruction attracted since Mr. Dheeraj
of residential is a pensioner. TDS
house provisions under section
194M are also not
applicable in this case, since
the payment of ` 48 lakhs
does not exceed the
threshold of
` 50 lakhs.

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3.23 TDS on cash withdrawal [Section 194N]
Section 194N provides that every person, being
- a banking company to which the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 applies
(including any bank or banking institution referred under section 51 of
that Act)
- a co-operative society engaged in carrying on the business of banking
or
- a post office
who is responsible for paying any sum, being the amount or aggregate of
amounts, as the case may be, in cash exceeding ` 1 crore during the
previous year, to any person from one or more accounts maintained by such
recipient-person with it, shall deduct tax at source @2% of sum
This deduction is to be made at the time of payment of such sum.
(3) Modification in rate of TDS and threshold limit of withdrawal for recipient
who has not furnished return of income for last 3 years (w.e.f., 1st July, 2020)
If the recipient has not furnished the returns of income for all the three
assessment years relevant to the three previous years, for which the time limit
of file return of income under section 139(1) has expired, immediately
preceding the previous year in which the payment of the sum is made, the sum
shall mean the amount or the aggregate of amounts, as the case may
be, in cash > ` 20 lakhs during the previous year, and the tax shall be
deducted at the rate of -
- 2% of the sum, where the amount or aggregate of amounts, as the case
may be, being paid in cash > ` 20 lakhs but ≤ ` 1 crore
- 5% of the sum, where the amount or aggregate of amounts, as the case
may be, being paid in cash > ` 1 crore.
However, the Central Government is empowered to specify, with the
consultation of RBI, by notification, the recipient in whose case this provision
shall not apply or apply at reduced rate, subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions specified in such notification.

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(4) Non-applicability of TDS under section 194N [Second Proviso to section

194N]
Liability to deduct tax at source under section 194N shall not be applicable
to any payment made to –
(i) the Government
(ii) any banking company or co-operative society engaged in carrying on
the business of banking or a post-office
(iii) any business correspondent of a banking company or co-operative
society engaged in carrying on the business of banking, in accordance
with the RBI guidelines
(iv) any white label ATM operator of a banking company or co-operative
society engaged in carrying on the business of banking, in accordance
with the authorisation issued by the RBI under the Payment and
Settlement Systems Act, 2007
The Central Government may specify, with the consultation of RBI, by
notification, the recipient in whose case section 194N shall not apply or apply
at reduced rate, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions specified in such
notification. Accordingly, the Central Government has, after consultation with
the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), specified –
I. Cash Replenishment Agencies (CRA’s) and franchise agents of
White Label Automated Teller Machine Operators (WLATMO’s)
maintaining a separate bank account from which withdrawal is made
only for the purposes of replenishing cash in the Automated Teller
Machines (ATM’s) operated by such WLATMO’s and the WLATMO have
furnished a certificate every month to the bank certifying that the bank
account of the CRA’s and the franchise agents of the WLATMO’s have
been examined and the amounts being withdrawn from their bank
accounts has been reconciled with the amount of cash deposited in the
ATM’s of the WLATMO’s.
II. Commission agent or trader, operating under Agriculture Produce
Market Committee (APMC), and registered under any Law relating
to Agriculture Produce Market of the concerned State, who has
intimated to the banking company or co-operative society or post office
his account number through which he wishes to withdraw cash in excess
of ` 1 crore in the previous year along with his Permanent Account
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the banking company or co-operative society or post office that the
withdrawal of cash from the account in excess of ` 1 crore during the
previous year is for the purpose of making payments to the farmers on
account of purchase of agriculture produce and the banking company or
co-operative society or post office has ensured that the PAN quoted is
correct and the commission agent or trader is registered with the APMC,
and for this purpose necessary evidences have been collected and placed
on record.
III. (a) the authorised dealer and its franchise agent and sub-agent; and
(b) Full-Fledged Money Changer (FFMC) licensed by the RBI and its
franchise agent;
Such persons should maintain a separate bank account from which
withdrawal is made only for the purposes of -
(i) purchase of foreign currency from foreign tourists or non-residents
visiting India or from resident Indians on their return to India, in
cash as per the directions or guidelines issued by RBI; or
(ii) disbursement of inward remittances to the recipient beneficiaries in
India in cash under Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS) of the RBI;
The exemption from the requirement to deduct tax u/s 194N would be
available only if a certificate is furnished by the authorised dealers and
their franchise agent and sub-agent, and the Full-Fledged Money
Changers (FFMC) and their franchise agent to the bank that withdrawal
is only for the purposes specified above and the directions or guidelines
issued by the RBI have been adhered to.
(5) Furnishing particulars in case of no deduction of tax in consequence of
exemption [Rule 31A]
Every person has to furnish particulars of amount paid or credited on which tax
was not deducted in view of the exemption provided in point (4) [Rule 31A].
3.24 Certain payment by e-commerce operator to e-commerce
participant [Section 194-O] [w.e.f. 1.10.2020]
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any of the provisions of
this Chapter, section 194-O provides that where sale of goods or provision of
services of an e-commerce participant is facilitated by an e-commerce operator
through its digital or electronic facility or platform, such e-commerce operator

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is liable to deduct tax at source @1% of the gross amount of such sales or
services or both.
194-O for the period upto 31.3.2021 has been reduced from 1% to 0.75% (i.e.,
¾th of the specified rate) [Section 197B].
The deduction is to be made at the time of credit of amount of such sale or services
or both to the account an e-commerce participant or at the time of payment
thereof to such e-commerce participant by any mode, whichever is earlier.
(3) Deemed credit
Any payment made by a purchaser of goods or recipient of services directly to
an e-commerce participant for the sale of goods or provision of services or both,
facilitated by an e-commerce operator, would be deemed to be amount credited
or paid by the e-commerce operator to the e-commerce participant.
Accordingly, such payment would be included in the gross amount of such sales
or services for the purpose of deduction of income-tax under this section.
(4) Non-applicability of TDS under section 194-O
No tax is required to be deducted under section 194-O in case of any sum
credited or paid to an e-commerce participant, being an individual or HUF,
where the gross amount of such sale or services or both during the previous
year does not exceed ` 5 lakh and such e-commerce participant has furnished
his PAN/ Aadhaar number to e-commerce operator.
(5) Non-applicability of TDS under any other section
A transaction in respect of which tax has been deducted by the e-commerce
operator under this section or which is not liable to tax deduction under this section
on account of the exemption discussed in point (4) above, would not be liable to
tax deduction at source under any other provision of Chapter XVII-B of the Act.
However, this exemption from TDS under Chapter XVII-B would not apply to any
amount or aggregate of amounts received or receivable by an e-commerce
operator for hosting advertisements or providing any other services which are not
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(6) Power of CBDT to issue guidelines
In case any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this section, the
CBDT may issue guidelines for the purpose of removing the difficulty with the
approval of the Central Government.
Every guideline issued by the CBDT shall be laid before each House of
Parliament, and shall be binding on the income-tax authorities and on the e-
commerce operator.
(7) Person responsible for paying
For the purpose of this section, e-commerce operator shall be deemed to be the
person responsible for paying to e-commerce participant.
(8) Meaning of certain terms
S.No. Term Meaning

(i) Electronic The supply of goods or service or both, including
commerce digital products, over digital or electronic network.
(ii) E-commerce A person who owns, operates or manages digital or
operator electronic facility or platform for electronic
commerce.
(iii) E-commerce A person resident in India selling goods or providing
participant services or both, including digital products, through digital
or electronic facility or platform for electronic commerce.
(iv) Services It includes fees for technical services and fees for
professional services as defined in section 194J.
3.25 Income payable “net of tax” [Section 195A]

(1) Where, under an agreement or other arrangement, the tax chargeable on any
income referred to in the foregoing provisions of this Chapter is to be borne
by the person by whom the income is payable, then, for the purposes of
deduction of tax under those provisions such income shall be increased to
such amount as would, after deduction of tax thereon, be equal to the net
amount payable under such agreement or arrangement.
(2) However, no grossing up is required in the case of tax paid under section 192(1A)
by an employer on the non-monetary perquisites provided to the employee.

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3.26 Interest or dividend or other sums payable to Government, Reserve

Bank or certain corporations [Section 196]
(1) No deduction of tax shall be made by any person from any sums payable to-
(i) the Government; or
(ii) the Reserve Bank of India; or
(iii) a corporation established by or under a Central Act, which is, under any
law for the time being in force, exempt from income-tax on its income; or
(iv) a Mutual Fund 4.
(2) This provision for non-deduction is applicable when such sum is payable to
the above entities by way of -
(i) interest or dividend in respect of securities or shares -
(a) owned by the above entities; or
(b) in which they have full beneficial interest or
(ii) any income accruing or arising to them.
4. CERTIFICATE FOR DEDUCTION OF TAX AT A

LOWER RATE [SECTION 197]
(1) This section applies where, in the case of any income of any person or sum
payable to any person, income-tax is required to be deducted at the time of
credit or payment, as the case may be at the rates in force as per the
provisions of sections 192, 193, 194, 194A, 194C, 194D, 194G, 194H, 194-I,
194J, 194K, 194LA, 194M and 194-O.
(2) In such cases, the assessee can make an application to the Assessing Officer
for deduction of tax at a lower rate or for non-deduction of tax.
(3) If the Assessing Officer is satisfied that the total income of the recipient
justifies the deduction of income-tax at lower rates or no deduction of
income-tax, as the case may be, he may give to the assessee such certificate,
as may be appropriate.
(4) Where the Assessing Officer issues such a certificate, then the person
responsible for paying the income shall deduct income-tax at such lower rates
4
Specified under section 10(23D)

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specified in the certificate or deduct no tax, as the case may be, until such
certificate is cancelled by the Assessing Officer.
(5) Enabling powers have been conferred upon the CBDT to make rules for
prescribing the procedure in this regard.
5. NO DEDUCTION IN CERTAIN CASES

[SECTION 197A]
(1) Enabling provision for filing of declaration for receipt of NSS payment
and dividend without deduction of tax [Sub-section (1)]
(i) This section enables an individual, who is resident in India and whose
estimated total income of the previous year is less than the basic
exemption limit, to receive dividend or any sum out of National Savings
Scheme Account, without deduction of tax at source under section 194
or 194EE, respectively, on furnishing a declaration in duplicate in the
prescribed form and verified in the prescribed manner.
(ii) The declaration in the above form is to be furnished in writing in
duplicate by the declarant to the person responsible for paying any
income of the nature referred to in section 194 or 194EE. The
declaration will have to be to the effect that the tax on the estimated
total income of the declarant of the previous year in which such income
is to be included in computing his total income will be Nil.
(2) Enabling provision for filing of declaration for non-deduction of tax
under section 192A or 193 or 194A or 194D or 194DA or 194-I or 194K by
persons, other than companies and firms [Sub-section (1A)]
No deduction of tax shall be made under the above provisions of the Act,
where a person, who is not a company or a firm, furnishes to the person
responsible for paying any income of the nature referred to in these sections,
a declaration in writing in duplicate in the prescribed form to the effect that
the tax on his estimated total income of the previous year in which such
income is to be included in computing his total income will be Nil.
(3) Filing declaration not permissible if income/aggregate of incomes
exceed basic exemption limit [Sub-section (1B)]
Declaration cannot be furnished as per the above provisions, where -
(i) payments of dividend; or
(ii) payments in respect of deposits under National Savings Schemes, etc.; or

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(iii) payment of premature withdrawal from Employee Provident Fund; or

(iv) income from interest on securities or interest other than “interest on
securities” or units; or
(v) insurance commission; or
(vi) payment in respect of life insurance policy; or
(vii) rent; or
(viii) income from units; or
(ix) the aggregate of the amounts of such incomes in (i) to (viii) above
credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid during the previous year in
which such income is to be included exceeds the basic exemption limit.
(4) Enabling provision for filing of declaration by resident senior citizens for
non-deduction of tax at source [Sub-section (1C)]
For a resident individual, who is of the age of 60 years or more at any time
during the previous year, no deduction of tax shall be made under section
192A or section 193 or section 194 or section 194A or section 194D or section
194DA or section 194EE or section 194-I or section 194K, if such individual
furnishes a declaration in writing in duplicate to the payer, that tax on his
estimated total income of the previous year in which such income is to be
included in computing his total income is Nil. The restriction contained in
sub-section (1B) will not apply to resident senior citizens.
(5) Non-deduction of tax in certain cases
(i) Interest payments by an Offshore Banking Unit to a non-
resident/not ordinarily resident in India [Sub-section (1D)]
No deduction of tax shall be made by an Offshore Banking Unit from
the interest paid on-
(a) deposit made by a non-resident/not-ordinarily resident on or
after 1.4.2005; or
(b) borrowing from a non-resident/not-ordinarily resident on or after
1.4.2005.

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Applicability of section 197A(1D) and section 10(15)(viii) to interest
paid by IFSC Banking Units (IBUs) [Circular No 26/2016 dated
4.7.2016]
The CBDT Circular clarifies that in accordance with the provisions of
Section 197A(1D), tax is not required to be deducted on interest paid by
IFSC Banking Units, on deposit made on or after 1.4.2005 by a non-
resident or a person who is not ordinarily resident in India, or on
borrowings made on or after 1.4.2005 from such persons.
(ii) Payment to any person for, or on behalf of, the NPS Trust [Sub-section
(1E)]
No deduction of tax at source shall be made from any payment to any
person for, or on behalf of, the New Pension System Trust 5.
(iii) Payments to notified person or class of persons including
institutions/class of institutions etc. [Sub-section (1F)]
No deduction of tax shall be made or deduction of tax shall be made at
such lower rate, from such payment to such person or class of persons,
including institution, association or body or class of institutions or
associations or bodies as may be notified by the Central Government in
the Official Gazette in this behalf. Therefore, in respect of such payments
made to notified person or class of persons, no tax is to be deducted at
source or tax is to be deducted at lower rate.
(6) Time limit for delivery of one copy of declaration [Sub-section (2)]
On receipt of the declaration referred to in sub-sections (1), (1A) or (1C), the
person responsible for making the payment will be required to deliver or
cause to be delivered to the Principal Chief Commissioner or Chief
Commissioner or Principal Commissioner or Commissioner, one copy of the
declaration on or before the 7th of the month following the month in
which the declaration is furnished to him.
5
referred in section 10(44)

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6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
6.1 Tax deducted is income received [Section 198]
(1) All sums deducted in accordance with the foregoing provisions shall, for the
purpose of computing the income of an assessee, be deemed to be income
received.
(2) However, the following tax paid or deducted would not be deemed to be
income received by the assessee for the purpose of computing the total
income–
(i) the tax paid by an employer under section 192(1A) on non-monetary
perquisites provided to the employees
(ii) tax deducted under section 194N
6.2 Credit for tax deducted at source [Section 199]
(1) Tax deducted at source in accordance with the above provisions and paid to
the credit of the Central Government shall be treated as payment of tax on
behalf of the-
(i) person from whose income the deduction was made; or
(ii) owner of the security; or
(iii) depositor; or
(iv) owner of property; or
(v) unit-holder; or
(vi) shareholder.
(2) Any sum referred to in section 192(1A) and paid to the Central Government,
shall be treated as the tax paid on behalf of the person in respect of whose
income, such payment of tax has been made.
(3) The CBDT is empowered to frame rules for the purpose of giving credit in
respect of tax deducted or tax paid under Chapter XVII. The CBDT also has
the power to make rules for giving credit to a person other than the persons
mentioned in (1) and (2) above. Further, the CBDT can specify the assessment
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(4) Rule 37BA – Credit for tax deducted at source for the purposes of section 199
Rule 37BA(1) provides that credit for tax deducted at source and paid to the
Central Government would be given to the person to whom the payment has
been made or credit has been given (i.e., the deductee) on the basis of
information relating to deduction of tax furnished by the deductor to the
income-tax authority or the person authorized by such authority.
Rule 37BA(2)(i) provides that where under any provisions of the Act, the whole
or any part of the income on which tax has been deducted at source is
assessable in the hands of a person other than the deductee, credit for the
whole or any part of the tax deducted at source, as the case may be, shall be
given to the other person and not to the deductee.
However, the deductee should file a declaration with the deductor and the
deductor should report the tax deduction in the name of the other person in
the information relating to deduction of tax referred to in Rule 37BA(1).
Rule 37BA(3), provides that credit for tax deducted at source and paid to the
Central Government, shall be given for the assessment year for which such
income is assessable.
Where tax has been deducted at source and paid to the Central Government
and the income is assessable over a number of years, credit for tax deducted
at source shall be allowed across those years in the same proportion in which
the income is assessable to tax.
Rule 37BA(3A), provides that, for the purposes of section 194N, credit for tax
deducted at source shall be given to the person from whose account tax is
deducted and paid to the Central Government account for the assessment year
relevant to the previous year in which such tax deduction is made.
6.3 Duty of person deducting tax [Section 200]
(1) The persons responsible for deducting the tax at source should deposit the
sum so deducted to the credit of the Central Government or as the Board
directs, within the prescribed time.
(2) Further, an employer paying tax on non-monetary perquisites provided to
employees in accordance with section 192(1A), should deposit within the
prescribed time, the tax to the credit of the Central Government or as the Board
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Rule 30 – Prescribed time and mode of payment to Government account

of TDS or tax paid under section 192(1A)
(a) All sums deducted in accordance with Chapter XVII-B by an office of the
Government shall be paid to the credit of the Central Government on
- the same day where the tax is paid without production of an
income-tax challan and
- on or before seven days from the end of the month in which the
deduction is made or income-tax is due under section 192(1A),
where tax is paid accompanied by an income-tax challan.
(b) All sums deducted in accordance with Chapter XVII-B by deductors
other than a Government office shall be paid to the credit of the Central
Government
- on or before 30th April, where the income or amount is credited
or paid in the month of March.
- In any other case, the tax deducted should be paid on or before
seven days from the end of the month in which the deduction is
made or income-tax is due under section 192(1A).
In special cases, the Assessing Officer may, with the prior approval of
the Joint Commissioner, permit quarterly payment of the tax deducted
under section 192/194A/194D or 194H on or before 7th of the month
following the quarter, in respect of first three quarters in the financial
year and 30th April in respect of the quarter ending on 31st March. The
dates for quarterly payment would, therefore, be 7th July, 7th October, 7th
January and 30th April, for the quarters ended 30th June, 30th September,
31st December and 31st March, respectively.
(d) Tax deducted under sections 194-IA, 194-IB and 194M have to be
remitted within 30 days from the end of the month of deduction. A
challan-cum-statement in Form 26QB/26QC/26QD has to be furnished
within 30 days from the end of the month of deduction.
(3) For the purpose of improving the reporting of payment of TDS made through
book entry and to make existing mechanism enforceable, it is provided that
where the tax deducted or tax referred to in section 192(1A) has been paid
without the production of a challan, the PAO/TO/CDDO or any other person,
by whatever name called, who is responsible for crediting such sum to the
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the prescribed time a statement in the prescribed form, verified in the
prescribed manner and setting forth prescribed particulars to the prescribed
income-tax authority or the person authorized by such authority.
(4) The following persons are responsible for preparing such statements for such
periods as may be prescribed, after paying the tax deducted to the credit of
the Central Government within the prescribed time –
(i) any person deducting any sum on or after 1st April, 2005 in accordance
with the foregoing provisions of this chapter; or,
(ii) any person being an employer referred to in section 192(1A).
(5) Such statements have to be delivered or caused to be delivered to the
prescribed income-tax authority or the person authorized by such authority.
(6) Such statements should be in the prescribed form and verified in the
prescribed manner.
(7) It should set forth such particulars and should be delivered within such time
as may be prescribed.
(8) The deductor may also deliver to the prescribed authority, a correction
statement –
(a) for rectification of any mistake; or
(b) to add, delete or update the information furnished in the statement
delivered under section 200(3).
Rule 31A – Submission of quarterly statements
Every person responsible for deduction of tax under Chapter XVII-B shall deliver, or
cause to be delivered, the following quarterly statements to the DGIT (Systems) or
any person authorized by him, in accordance with section 200(3):
(i) Statement of TDS under section 192 in Form No.24Q;
(ii) Statement of TDS under other sections from section 193 to section 196D in Form
No.26Q in respect of all deductees other than a deductee being a non-corporate
non-resident or a foreign company or resident but not ordinarily resident in
which case the relevant form would be Form No.27Q.
Such statements have to be furnished within the due date for each quarter specified
in Rule 31A(2). Accordingly, quarterly statements of TDS have to be furnished by
the due dates specified in column (3) against the corresponding quarter-

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Sl.No. Date of ending of Due date

the quarter of the
financial year
1. 30th June 31st July of the financial year
2. 30th September 31st October of the financial year
3. 31st December 31st January of the financial year
4. 31st March 31st May of the financial year immediately
following the financial year in which the
deduction is made.
However, every person responsible for deduction of tax under section 194-IA, 194-
IB or 194M have to furnish to the Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems)
or Director General of Income-tax (System) or the person authorised by the
Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) or the Director General of
Income-tax (Systems) a challan-cum-statement in Form No.26QB, 26QC or 26QD
respectively, within thirty days from the end of the month of deduction of tax.
6.4 Correction of arithmetic mistakes and adjustment of incorrect
claim during computerized processing of TDS statements [Section
200A]
(1) At present, all statements of tax deducted at source are filed in an electronic
mode, thereby facilitating computerised processing of these statements.
Therefore, in order to process TDS statements on computer, electronic
processing on the same lines as processing of income-tax returns has been
provided in section 200A.
(2) The following adjustments can be made during the computerized processing
of statement of tax deducted at source or a correction statement –
(i) any arithmetical error in the statement; or
(ii) an incorrect claim, if such incorrect claim is apparent from any
information in the statement.
(3) The term “an incorrect claim apparent from any information in the statement”
shall mean such claim on the basis of an entry, in the statement,–
(i) of an item, which is inconsistent with another entry of the same or some
other item in such statement;
(ii) in respect of rate of deduction of tax at source, where such rate is not
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(4) The interest, if any, has to be computed on the basis of the sums deductible
as computed in the statement;
(5) The fee, if any, has to be computed in accordance with the provision of
section 234E. A fee of ` 200 for every day would be levied under section 234E
for late furnishing of TDS statement from the due date of furnishing of TDS
statement to the date of furnishing of TDS/ statement. However, the total
amount of fee shall not exceed the total amount of tax deductible/collectible
and such fee has to be paid before delivering the TDS statement.
(6) The sum payable by, or the amount of refund due to, the deductor has to be
determined after adjustment of interest and fee against the amount paid
under section 200 or section 201 or section 234E and any amount paid
otherwise by way of tax or interest or fee.
(7) An intimation will be prepared and generated and sent to the deductor,
specifying his tax liability or the refund due, within one year from the end of
the financial year in which the statement is filed. The refund due shall be
granted to the deductor.
(8) For this purpose, the CBDT is empowered to make a scheme for centralized
processing of statements of TDS to determine the tax payable by, or refund
due to, the deductor.
6.5 Consequences of failure to deduct or pay [Section 201]
(1) Deemed assessee-in-default
Any person including the principal officer of a company-
(i) who is required to deduct any sum in accordance with the provisions of
the Act; or
(ii) an employer paying tax on non-monetary perquisites under section 192(1A).
shall be deemed to be an assessee-in-default if he does not deduct the whole
or any part of the tax or after deducting fails to pay the tax.
(2) Non-applicability of deeming provision
Any person (including the principal officer of the company) who fails to
deduct the whole or any part of the tax on the amount credited or payment
made to a payee shall not be deemed to be an assessee-in-default in respect
of such tax if such payee –
(i) has furnished his return of income under section 139;
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of income; and
(iii) has paid the tax due on the income declared by him in such return of
income,
and the payer furnishes a certificate to this effect from an accountant in such
form as may be prescribed.
(3) Interest Liability
(i) A person deemed to be an assessee-in-default under section 201(1), for
failure to deduct tax or to pay the tax after deduction, is liable to pay
simple interest @ 1% for every month or part of month on the amount
of such tax from the date on which tax was deductible to the date on
which such tax was actually deducted and simple interest @ 1½% for
every month or part of month from the date on which tax was deducted
to the date on which such tax is actually paid [Section 201(1A)].
ILLUSTRATION 11
An amount of ` 40,000 was paid to Mr. X on 1.7.2020 towards fees for
professional services without deduction of tax at source. Subsequently,
another payment of ` 50,000 was due to Mr. X on 28.2.2021, from which
tax@7.5% (amounting to` 6,750) on the entire amount of ` 90,000 was
deducted. However, this tax of ` 6,750 was deposited only on 22.6.2021.
Compute the interest chargeable under section 201(1A).
SOLUTION
Interest under section 201(1A) would be computed as follows –
Particulars `
1% on tax deductible but not deducted i.e., 1% on ` 3,000 240
for 8 months
1½% on tax deducted but not deposited i.e. 1½% on ` 6,750 405
for 4 months 6
645
(ii) Such interest should be paid before furnishing the statements in
accordance with section 200(3).
(iii) Where the payer fails to deduct the whole or any part of the tax on the
amount credited or payment made to a payee and is not deemed to be an
6
As per TRACES, interest is calculated for 5 months

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assessee-in-default under section 201(1) on account of payment of taxes by
such payee, interest under section 201(1A)(i) i.e.,@1% p.m. or part of month,
shall be payable by the payer from the date on which such tax was deductible
to the date of furnishing of return of income by such payee. The date of
deduction and payment of taxes by the payer shall be deemed to be the date
on which return of income has been furnished by the payee.
(iv) Where the tax has not been paid after it is deducted, the amount of the
tax together with the amount of simple interest thereon shall be a charge
upon all the assets of the person or the company, as the case may be.
(4) Time limit for deeming a person to be an assessee-in-default for failure
to deduct tax at source
No order under section 201(1), deeming a person to be an assessee-in-
default for failure to deduct the whole or any part of the tax from a person
resident in India, shall be passed at any time after the expiry of
- seven years from the end of the financial year in which the payment is
made or credit is given; or
- two years from the end of the financial year in which the correction
statement is delivered under the proviso to section 200(3)
whichever is later
(5) Non-specification of time limit where tax has been deducted but not paid
Section 201(1) deems a person to be an assessee-in-default if he –
(i) does not deduct tax; or
(ii) does not pay; or
(iii) after so deducting fails to pay
the whole or any part of the tax, as required by or under this Act.
Thus, section 201(1) contemplates three types of defaults. The default
contemplated in (ii) is covered by the default contemplated in (iii). However,
the time limit has been specified only for passing of orders relating to default
contemplated in (i) above. There is no time limit specified in respect of the
other defaults.
Therefore, no time-limits have been prescribed for the order under section
201(1) where –
(i) the deductor has deducted but not deposited the tax deducted at
source, as this would be a case of defalcation of government dues,

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(ii) the employer has failed to pay the tax wholly or partly, under section
192(1A), as the employee would not have paid tax on such perquisites,
(iii) the deductee is a non-resident as it may not be administratively
possible to recover the tax from the non-resident.
6.6 Deduction only one mode of recovery [Section 202]
(1) Recovery of tax through deduction at source is only one method of recovery.
(2) The Assessing Officer can use any other prescribed methods of recovery in
addition to tax deducted at source.
6.7 Certificate for tax deducted [Section 203]
(1) Every person deducting tax at source have to issue a certificate to the effect
that tax has been deducted and specify the amount so deducted, the rate at
which tax has been deducted and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
(2) Every person, being an employer, referred to in section 192(1A) shall, within such
period, as may be prescribed, furnish to the person in respect of whose income
such payment of tax has been made, a certificate to the effect that tax has been
paid to the Central Government, and specify the amount so paid, the rate at
which the tax has been paid and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
(3) Certificate of TDS to be furnished under section 203 [Rule 31]
The certificate of deduction of tax at source to be furnished under section 203
shall be in Form No.16 in respect of tax deducted or paid under section 192 and
in any other case, Form No.16A.
Form No.16 shall be issued to the employee annually by 15th June of the
financial year immediately following the financial year in which the income
was paid and tax deducted. Form No.16A shall be issued quarterly within 15
days from the due date for furnishing the statement of TDS under Rule 31A.
Form No. 16B, 16C or 16D shall be issued by the every person responsible
for deduction of tax under section 194-IA, 194-IB or 194M to the payee within
fifteen days from the due date for furnishing the challan-cum-statement in
Form No. 26QB, 26QC or 26QD, respectively, under rule 31A.
Note – The entire TDS process can be understood at a glance from the diagram
given in the next page. The reference to Rules and Forms are only for the
information of students. They are, however, not required to memorize the Rule
numbers and Form numbers for examination purposes.

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Deduction of tax at source
Sections 193, 194A, 194C, 194D, 194E, 194G, Sections 192 7, 192A, 194, 194B, 194BB, 194DA, 194EE,
194H, 194-I/IA/IB/IC, 194J, 194K, 194M, 194O 194F, 194LA, 194N
Deduct tax at the time of credit to the Deduct tax at the time of payment
a/c of the payee or payment, Remittance [Rule 30]
whichever is earlier
Tax deducted by an office of Govt. Other deductors
Where tax is Where tax is paid (i) Cases (other than # (ii) (iii) (iv) (iv)
paid without accompanied by (ii), (iii) & (iv) u/s u/s u/s u/s
production of an IT challan 192/ 194- 194- 194M
challan 194A/ IA IB
194D/
Income/Amt is 194H
credited or paid in
March Any other
On the same day On or before 7 month Qtly payt 30 days from the end of the
days from the 30th On or before 7 7th July/ month of deduction
end of the month April days from the 7th Oct/ 7th
of deduction end of the Jan/ 30th
month of April
dedn.
PAO/TO/CDDO Furnishing Stt of TDS [Rule 31A] Rule 31A - Furnish Challan-
[Form 24Q/26Q/27Q] cum-stt in Form
Qtr ending Due date 26QB/26QC/26QD with 30
Submit Statement in Form 24G to 30th June 31st July days from the end of the
agency authorised by PDIT (Sys) 30th Sep 31st Oct month of deduction
31st Dec 31st Jan
31St March 31st May
Where Where Stt Furnishing Certificate of TDS Rule 31 -Furnish

Stt relates to [Rule 31] Certificate to the payee
relates to other months within 15 days from the
Deduction u/s 192 Deduction under
March above due date in Form
other sections
16B/16C/16D
Form 16 Form 16A
On or On or before By 15thJune of the Within 15 days from
before 15 days from immediately following the due date for
30th April end of the F.Y. furnishing TDS
relevant month statement
# In special cases, the A.O. may,
with the prior approval of the JC,
permit quarterly payment of TDS
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6.8 Person responsible for paying taxes deducted at source [Section 204]
For purposes of deduction of tax at source the expression “person responsible for
paying” means:
Nature of income/payment Person responsible for paying tax

(1) Salary (other than payment of (i) the employer himself; or
salaries by the Central or State (ii) if the employer is a company, the
Government) company itself, including the
principal officer thereof.
(2) Interest on securities (other the local authority, corporation or
than payments by or on behalf company, including the principal officer
of the Central or State thereof.
Government)
(3) Any sum payable to a non- the “Authorised Person” responsible for
resident Indian, representing remitting such sum to the non-resident
consideration for the transfer Indian or for crediting such sum to his
by him of any foreign Non-resident (External) Account
exchange asset, which is not a maintained in accordance with the
short term capital asset Foreign Exchange Management Act,
1999 and any rules made thereunder.
(4) furnishing of information (i) the payer himself; or
relating to payment to a non- (ii) if the payer is a company, the
corporate non-resident, or to company itself including the
a foreign company, of any principal officer thereof.
sum, whether or not
chargeable under the
provisions of this Act
(5) Credit/payment of any other (i) the payer himself; or
sum chargeable under the (ii) if the payer is a company, the
provisions of the Act company itself including the
principal officer thereof.
(6) Credit/payment of any sum (i) the drawing and disbursing officer;
chargeable under the or
provisions of the Act made by (ii) any other person, by whatever name
or on behalf of the Central called, responsible for crediting, or
Government or the as the case may be, paying such sum.
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(7) In case of a person not resident (i) the person himself; or
in India (irrespective of the (ii) any person authorized by such
nature of payment or income) person; or
(iii) the agent of such person in India
including any person treated as an
agent under section 163.
6.9 Bar against direct demand on assessee [Section 205]

Where tax is deductible at source under any of the aforesaid sections, the assessee
shall not be called upon to pay the tax himself to the extent to which tax has been
deducted from that income.
6.10 Furnishing of statements in respect of payment of any income to
residents without deduction of tax [Section 206A]
(1) This section casts responsibility on every banking company or co-operative
society or public company referred to in the proviso to section 194A(3)(i) [i.e.,
a public company formed and registered in India with the main object of
carrying on the business of providing long-term finance for construction or
purchase of residential houses in India and which is eligible for deduction
under section 36(1)(viii)] to prepare such statement, for such period as may
be prescribed –
— if they are responsible for paying to a resident,
— the payment should be of any income not exceeding ` 40,000, where
the payer is a banking company or a co-operative society, and ` 5,000
in any other case.
— such income should be by way of interest (other than interest on
securities)
(2) The statements have to be delivered or caused to be delivered to the
prescribed income-tax authority or the person authorised by such authority.
(3) The statements have to be in the prescribed form, containing such particulars
verified in the prescribed manner. The statement has to be filed within the
prescribed time.
(4) The CBDT may cast responsibility on any person other than a person
mentioned in (1) above, who is responsible for paying to a resident any
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(5) Such persons may be required to prepare statement for such period as may
be prescribed in the prescribed form and deliver or cause to be delivered such
statement within the prescribed time to the prescribed income-tax authority
or the person authorized by such authority.
(6) Such statements should be in the prescribed form, containing such particulars
and verified in the prescribed manner.
(7) Such person referred to in (1) and (4) above may also deliver to the prescribed
authority, a correction statement -
(a) for rectification of any mistake; or
(a) to add, delete or update the information furnished in the statement
delivered referred in (2) & (5) above.
6.11 Mandatory requirement of furnishing PAN in all TDS statements,
bills, vouchers and correspondence between deductor and
deductee [Section 206AA]
(1) The non-furnishing of PAN by deductees in many cases have led to delay in
issue of refund on account of problems in the processing of returns of income
and in granting credit for tax deducted at source.
(2) With a view to strengthening the PAN mechanism, section 206AA provides
that any person whose receipts are subject to deduction of tax at source i.e.
the deductee, shall mandatorily furnish his PAN to the deductor failing which
the deductor shall deduct tax at source at higher of the following rates –
(i) the rate prescribed in the Act;
(ii) at the rate in force i.e., the rate mentioned in the Finance Act; or
(iii) at the rate of 20%. [5% in case tax is required to be deducted at
source u/s 194-O]
For instance, in case of rental payment for plant and machinery, where the
payee does not furnish his PAN to the payer, tax would be deductible @20%
instead of @2% prescribed under section 194-I. However, non-furnishing of
PAN by the deductee in case of income by way of winnings from lotteries,
card games etc., would result in tax being deducted at the existing rate of
30% under section 194B. Therefore, wherever tax is deductible at a rate higher
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(3) Tax would be deductible at the rates mentioned above also in cases where
the taxpayer files a declaration in Form 15G or 15H (under section 197A) but
does not provide his PAN.
(4) Further, no certificate under section 197 will be granted by the Assessing
Officer unless the application contains the PAN of the applicant.
(5) Both the deductor and the deductee have to compulsorily quote the PAN of
the deductee in all correspondence, bills, vouchers and other documents
exchanged between them.
(6) If the PAN provided to the deductor is invalid or it does not belong to the
deductee, it shall be deemed that the deductee has not furnished his PAN to the
deductor. Accordingly, tax would be deductible at the rate specified in (2) above.
Note: The applicability of provisions of section 206AA on non-resident will be

dealt with at the Final Level.
7. ADVANCE PAYMENT OF TAX [SECTIONS 207

TO 219]
7.1 Liability for payment of advance tax
(1) Tax shall be payable in advance during any financial year, in accordance with
the provisions of sections 208 to 219, in respect of an assessee’s current income
i.e. the total income of the assessee which would be chargeable to tax for the
assessment year immediately following that financial year [Section 207].
(2) Under section 208, obligation to pay advance tax arises in every case where
the advance tax payable is ` 10,000 or more.
Note - An assessee who is liable to pay advance tax of less than ` 10,000 will not
be saddled with interest under sections 234B and 234C for defaults in payment of
advance tax. However, the consequences under section 234A regarding interest for
belated filing of return would be attracted.
(3) In case of senior citizens who have passive source of income like interest, rent,
etc., the requirement of payment of advance tax causes genuine compliance
hardship. Therefore, in order to reduce the compliance burden on such senior
citizens, exemption from payment of advance tax has now been provided to a
resident individual-
(i) not having any income chargeable under the head “Profits and gains of
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(ii) of the age of 60 years or more.

Such senior citizens need not pay advance tax and are allowed to discharge their
tax liability (other than TDS) by payment of self-assessment tax.
7.2 Computation of advance tax
(1) An assessee has to estimate his current income and pay advance tax thereon.
He need not submit any estimate or statement of income to the Assessing
Officer, except where he has been served with notice by the Assessing Officer.
(2) Where an obligation to pay advance tax has arisen, the assessee shall himself
compute the advance tax payable on his current income at the rates in force in
the financial year and deposit the same, whether or not he has been earlier
assessed to tax.
(3) In the case of a person who has been already assessed by way of a regular
assessment in respect of the total income of any previous year, the Assessing
Officer, if he is of the opinion that such person is liable to pay advance tax, may
serve an order under section 210(3) requiring the assessee to pay advance tax.
(4) For this purpose, the total income of the latest previous year in respect of
which the assessee has been assessed by way of regular assessment or the
total income returned by the assessee in any return of income for any
subsequent previous year, whichever is higher, shall be taken as the basis for
computation of advance tax payable.
(5) The above order can be served by the Assessing Officer at any time during
the financial year but not later than the last date of February.
(6) If, after sending the above notice, but before 1st March of the financial year,
the assessee furnishes a return relating to any later previous year or an
assessment is completed in respect of a later return of income, the Assessing
Officer may amend the order for payment of advance tax on the basis of the
computation of the income so returned or assessed.
(7) If the assessee feels that his own estimate of advance tax payable would be
less than the one sent by the Assessing Officer, he can file estimate of his
current income and advance tax payable thereon.
(8) Where the advance tax payable on assessee’s estimation is higher than the tax
computed by the Assessing Officer, then, the advance tax shall be paid based
upon such higher amount.
(9) In all cases, the tax calculated shall be reduced by the amount of tax
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No reduction of ‘tax deductible but not deducted’ while computing
advance tax liability
(i) As per the provisions of section 209, the amount of advance tax payable
by a person is computed by reducing the amount of income-tax which
would be deductible at source during the financial year from any income
which has been taken into account in computing the total income.
(ii) Some courts have opined that in case where the payer pays any amount
(on which tax is deductible at source) without deduction of tax at
source, the payee shall not be liable to pay advance tax to the extent
tax is deductible from such amount.
(iii) With a view to make such a person (payee) liable to pay advance tax,
the proviso to section 209(1)(d) provides that the amount of tax
deductible at source but not so deducted by the payer shall not be
reduced from the income tax liability of the payee for determining his
liability to pay advance tax.
(iv) In effect, only if tax has actually been deducted at source, the same can
be reduced for computing advance tax liability of the payee. Tax
deductible but not so deducted cannot be reduced for computing
advance tax liability of the payee.
(10) The amount of advance tax payable by an assessee in the financial year
calculated by -
(i) the assessee himself based on his estimation of current income; or
(ii) the Assessing Officer as a result of an order under section 210(3) or
amended order under section 210(4)
is subject to the provisions of section 209(2), as per which the net agricultural
income has to be considered for the purpose of computing advance tax.
7.3 Instalments of advance tax and due dates
(1) Common advance tax payment schedule for both corporates and non-
corporates (other than assessee computing profits on presumptive basis
under section 44AD(1) or section 44ADA(1)]:
Due date of instalment Amount payable

On or before 15th June Not less than 15% of advance tax liability

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On or before 15th September Not less than 45% of advance tax liability,
as reduced by the amount, if any, paid in
the earlier instalment.
On or before 15th December Not less than 75% of advance tax liability,
as reduced by the amount or amounts, if
any, paid in the earlier instalment or
instalments.
On or before 15th March The whole amount of advance tax liability
as
reduced by the amount or amounts, if
any, paid in the earlier instalment or
instalments.
Note - Any amount paid by way of advance tax on or before 31st March shall also
be treated as advance tax paid during each financial year ending on 31st March.
(2) Advance tax payment by assessees computing profits on presumptive
basis under section 44AD(1)or section 44ADA(1)
An eligible assessee, opting for computation of profits or gains of business
on presumptive basis in respect of eligible business referred to in section
44AD(1) or for computation of profits or gains of profession on presumptive
basis in respect of eligible profession referred to in section 44ADA(1), shall
be required to pay advance tax of the whole amount in one instalment on or
before the 15th March of the financial year.
However, any amount paid by way of advance tax on or before 31st March shall
also be treated as advance tax paid during each financial year ending on 31st
March.
(3) If the last day for payment of any instalment of advance tax is a day on which
the receiving bank is closed, the assessee can make the payment on the next
immediately following working day, and in such cases, the mandatory interest
leviable under sections 234B and 234C would not be charged.
(4) Where advance tax is payable by virtue of the notice of demand issued 8 by
the Assessing Officer, the whole or the appropriate part of the advance tax
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specified in such notice shall be payable on or before each of such due dates
as fall after the date of service of notice of demand.
(5) Where the assessee does not pay any instalment by the due date, he shall be
deemed to be an assessee in default in respect of such instalment.
7.4 Credit for advance tax [Section 219]
Any sum, other than interest or penalty, paid by or recovered from an assessee as
advance tax, is treated as a payment of tax in respect of the income of the previous
year and credit thereof shall be given in the regular assessment.
7.5 Interest for non-payment or short-payment of advance tax
[Section 234B]
(1) Interest under section 234B is attracted for non-payment of advance tax or
payment of advance tax of an amount less than 90% of assessed tax.
(2) The interest liability would be 1% per month or part of the month from 1st
April following the financial year upto the date of determination of income
under section 143(1).
(3) Such interest is calculated on the amount of difference between the assessed
tax and the advance tax paid.
(4) Assessed tax is the tax calculated on total income less
- tax deducted or collected at source.
- any relief of tax allowed under section 89
- any tax credit allowed to be set off in accordance with the provisions of
section 115JD
(5) However, where self-assessment tax is paid by the assessee under section
140A or otherwise, interest shall be calculated upto the date of payment of
such tax and reduced by the interest, if any, paid under section 140A towards
the interest chargeable under this section.
7.6 Interest payable for deferment of advance tax [Section 234C]
(a) Manner of computation of interest under section 234C for deferment of
advance tax by corporate and non-corporate assessees:
In case an assessee, other than an assessee who declares profits and gains
in accordance with the provisions of section 44AD(1) or section
44ADA(1), who is liable to pay advance tax under section 208 has failed to
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on or before the dates specified in column (1) is less than the specified
percentage [given in column (2)] of tax due on returned income, then simple
interest@1% per month for the period specified in column (4) on the amount
of shortfall, as per column (3) is leviable under section 234C.
Specified date Specified% Shortfall in advance tax Period

(1) (2) (3) (4)
15th June 15% 15% of tax due on returned 3 months
income (-) advance tax paid
up to 15th June
15th September 45% 45% of tax due on returned 3 months
up to 15th September
15th December 75% 75% of tax due on returned 3 months
up to 15th December
15th March 100% 100% of tax due on returned 1 month
up to 15th March
Note – However, if the advance tax paid by the assessee on the current income, on
or before 15th June or 15th September, is not less than 12% or 36% of the tax due
on the returned income, respectively, then, the assessee shall not be liable to pay
any interest on the amount of the shortfall on those dates.
(b) Computation of interest under section 234C in case of an assessee who
declares profits and gains in accordance with the provisions of section
44AD(1) or section 44ADA(1):
In case an assessee who declares profits and gains in accordance with the
section 44AD(1) or section 44ADA(1), as the case may be, who is liable to pay
advance tax under section 208 has failed to pay such tax or the advance tax
paid by the assessee on its current income on or before 15th March is less
than the tax due on the returned income, then, the assessee shall be liable to
pay simple interest at the rate of 1% on the amount of the shortfall from the
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(c) Non-applicability of interest under section 234C in certain cases:
Interest under section 234C shall not be leviable in respect of any shortfall in
payment of tax due on returned income, where such shortfall is on account
of under-estimate or failure to estimate –
(i) the amount of capital gains;
(ii) income of nature referred to in section 2(24)(ix) i.e., winnings from
lotteries, crossword puzzles etc.;
(iii) income under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession” in cases
where the income accrues or arises under the said head for the first time.
However, the assessee should have paid the whole of the amount of tax
payable in respect of such income referred to in (i), (ii) or (iii), as the case may
be, had such income been a part of the total income, as part of the remaining
instalments of advance tax which are due or where no such instalments are
due, by 31st March of the financial year.
(d) Meaning of tax due on returned income
Tax due on returned income means the tax calculated on total income
declared in the return furnished by the assessee less
- tax deducted or collected at source.
- any relief of tax allowed under section 89
- any tax credit allowed to be set off in accordance with the provisions of
section 115JD
8. TAX COLLECTION AT SOURCE – BASIC

CONCEPT [SECTION 206C]
(1) Applicability and Rates
(i) Sale of certain goods
Under section 206C(1), sellers of certain goods are required to collect tax from
the buyers at the specified rates. The specified percentage for collection of
tax at source is as follows:

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Percentage
From From
Nature of Goods 1.4.2020 14.5.2020
to to
13.5.2020 31.3.2021
[Section
206C(10A)]
(a) Alcoholic liquor for human consumption 1% 1%
(b) Tendu leaves 5% 3.75%
(c) Timber obtained under a forest lease 2.5% 1.875%
(d) Timber obtained by any mode other than 2.5% 1.875%
(c)
(e) Any other forest produce not being timber 2.5% 1.875%
or tendu leaves
(f) Scrap 1% 0.75%
(g) Minerals, being coal or lignite or iron ore 1% 0.75%
(ii) Lease or a licence of parking lot, toll plaza or mine or a quarry
Sub-section (1C) provides for collection of tax by every person who grants a
lease or a licence or enters into a contract or otherwise transfers any right or
interest in any
- parking lot or
- toll plaza or
- a mine or a quarry
to another person (other than a public sector company) for the use of such
parking lot or toll plaza or mine or quarry for the purposes of business. The
tax shall be collected as provided, from the licensee or lessee of any such
licence, contract or lease of the specified nature, at the rate of 2%.
the economic situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of TCS u/s
206C(1C) has been reduced from 2% to 1.5% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate) for
the period from 14th May, 2020 to 31st March, 2021 [Section 206C(10A)].
(iii) Sale of motor vehicle of value exceeding ` 10 lakhs
Section 206C(IF) provides that every person, being a seller, who receives any
amount as consideration for sale of a motor vehicle of the value exceeding
` 10 lakhs, shall collect tax from the buyer@1% of the sale consideration.

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the economic situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of TCS u/s
206C(1F) has been reduced from 1% to 0.75% (i.e., ¾th of the specified rate)
for the period from 14th May, 2020 to 31st March, 2021 [Section
206C(10A)].
(iv) Overseas remittance or an overseas tour package [w.e.f. 1.10.2020]
Section 206C(IG) provides for collection of tax by every person,
- being an authorized dealer, who receives amount, under the Liberalised
Remittance Scheme of the RBI, for overseas remittance from a buyer,
being a person remitting such amount out of India;
- being a seller of an overseas tour programme package who receives
any amount from the buyer who purchases the package
at the rate of 5% of such amount.
Tax has to be collected at the time of debiting the amount payable by the buyer
or at the time of receipt of such amount from the said buyer, by any mode,
whichever is earlier.
Rate of TCS in case of collection by an authorized dealer
S. Amount and purpose of remittance Rate of
No. TCS
Nil
(i) (a) Where the amount is remitted for a purpose other
(No tax
than purchase of overseas tour programme
to be
package; and
collected
(b) the amount or aggregate of the amounts being at
remitted by a buyer is less than ` 7 lakhs in a source)
financial year
5% of
(ii) (a) where the amount is remitted for a purpose other
the amt
than purchase of overseas tour programme
or agg.
package; and
of amts
(b) the amount or aggregate of the amounts in excess in excess
of ` 7 lakhs is remitted by the buyer in a financial of ` 7
year lakh

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(iii) 0.5% of
(a) where the amount being remitted out is a loan
the amt
obtained from any financial institution, for the
or agg.
purpose of pursuing any education; and
of amts
(b) the amount or aggregate of the amounts in excess in excess
of ` 7 lakhs is remitted by the buyer in a financial of ` 7
year lakh
Cases where no tax is to be collected
(i) No TCS by the authorized dealer on an amount in respect of which

the sum has been collected by the seller
(ii) No TCS, if the buyer is liable to deduct tax at source under any other
provision of the Act and has deducted such tax
(iii) No TCS, if the buyer is the Central Government, a State Government,

an embassy, a High Commission, a legation, a commission, a
consulate, the trade representation of a foreign State, a local
authority 9 or any other person notified by the Central Government,
subject to fulfillment of conditions stipulated thereunder
(v) Sale of goods of value exceeding ` 50 lakh [w.e.f. 1.10.2020]
(a) As per section 206C(1H), tax is also required to be collected by a seller,
who receives any amount as consideration for sale of goods of the value
or aggregate of such value exceeding ` 50 lakhs in a previous year [other
than exported goods or goods covered under sub-sections (1)/(1F)/(1G)].
(b) Tax is to be collected at source @0.1% u/s 206C(1H) of the sale
consideration exceeding ` 50 lakhs, at the time of receipt of
consideration.
In order to provide more funds at the disposal of the taxpayers for dealing
with the economic situation arising out of COVID-19 pandemic, the rate
of TCS u/s 206C(1H) has been reduced from 0.1% to 0.075% (i.e., ¾th of
the specified rate) for the period upto 31st March, 2021 [Section
206C(10A)].
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(c) Tax is, however, not required to be collected if the buyer is liable to deduct
tax at source under any other provision of the Act on the goods purchased
by him from the seller and has deducted such tax.
(d) In case of non-furnishing of PAN or Aadhar number by the buyer to the
seller, tax is required to be collected at the higher of –
(i) twice the rate specified in this sub-section; and
(ii) 1%.
(vi) Power to the CBDT to issue guidelines
In case of any difficulty arises to give effect to the provisions of section
206C(1G)/(1H), the CBDT is empowered to issue guidelines, with the approval
of the Central Government, for the purpose of removing the difficulty.
Every guideline issued by the CBDT shall be laid before each House of
Parliament, and shall be binding on the income-tax authorities and on the
person liable to collect tax.
(2) Meaning of certain terms
Term Meaning
(i) Overseas For section 206C(1G)
tour Any tour package which offers visit to a country/(ies) or
program territory/(ies) outside India. It includes expenses for travel
package or hotel stay or boarding or lodging or any other
expenditure of similar nature or in relation thereto.
[Clause (ii) of Explanation to section 206C(1G)]
(ii) Buyer For section 206C(1H):
A person who purchases any goods but does not include –
(A) the Central Government, a State Government, an
embassy, a High Commission, legation, commission,
consulate and the trade representation of a foreign
State, or
(B) a local authority7; or
(C) a person importing goods into India or any other
person as the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, specify for this
purpose, subject to stipulated conditions.

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For section 206C(1):

A person who obtains in any sale, by way of auction,
tender, or any other mode, goods of the nature specified
in the Table in point (1) or the right to receive any such
goods but does not include –
(A) a public sector company, the Central Government, a
State Government, and an embassy, a high
commission, legation, commission, consulate and
the trade representation, of a foreign State and a
club, or
(B) a buyer in the retail sale of such goods purchased
by him for personal consumption [Explanation to
section 206C]
For section 206C(1F):
A person who obtains in any sale, goods of the nature
specified therein, but does not include –
(A) the Central Government, a State Government and an
embassy, a High Commission, legation, commission,
consulate and the trade representation of a foreign
State; or
(B) a local authority; or
(C) a public sector company which is engaged in the
business of carrying passengers. [Explanation to
section 206C]
(ii) Seller For section 206C(1H):
A person whose total sales, gross receipts or turnover
from the business carried on by him exceed ` 10 crores
during the financial year immediately preceding the
financial year in which sale of goods is carried out.
However, seller does not include a person as notified by
the Central Government for this purpose, subject to
fulfillment of conditions stipulated [Clause (b) of
Explanation to section 206C(1H)]
For section 206C(1) and section 206C(1F):
(i) The Central Government,
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(iii) any local authority or
(iv) corporation or
(v) authority established by or under a Central, State
or Provincial Act, or
(vi) any company or
(vii) firm or
(viii) co-operative society
Seller also includes an individual or a HUF whose total
sales, gross receipts or turnover from the business or
profession carried on by him exceed the monetary limit
specified under section 44AB(a) or 44AB(b) during the
financial year immediately preceding the financial year
in which the goods of the nature specified in the Table
in point (1) are sold. However, with effect from 1st
October, 2020, seller includes an individual or a HUF
whose total sales, gross receipts or turnover from the
business or profession carried on by him exceed ` 1
crore in case of business and ` 50 lakhs in case of
profession during the financial year immediately
preceding the financial year in which the goods of the
nature specified in the Table in point (1) are sold.
[Explanation to section 206C]
(iii) Scrap Waste and scrap from the manufacture or mechanical
working of materials which is definitely not usable as
such because of breakage, cutting up, wear and other
reasons. [Explanation to section 206C]
(3) CBDT Clarification relating to certain issues with respect to section

206C(1F)
These amendments in section 206C have given rise to certain issues relating
to the scope and applicability of the provisions. Accordingly, the CBDT has,
vide Circular No. 22/2016 dated 8.6.2016, clarified the following issues in
“Question & Answer (Q&A)” format.
Q.1 Whether TCS@1%/0.75% is on sale of motor vehicle at retail level or
also on sale of motor vehicles by manufacturers to dealers/
distributors?

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A. To bring high value transactions within the tax net, section 206C has been
amended to provide that the seller shall collect the tax @ 1%/0.75% from
the purchaser on sale of motor vehicle of the value exceeding ` 10 lakhs.
This is brought to cover all transactions of retail sales and accordingly, it
will not apply on sale of motor vehicles by manufacturers to
dealers/distributors.
Q.2 Whether TCS@1%/0.75% on sale of motor vehicle is applicable only
to luxury cars?
A. No, as per section 206C(1F), the seller shall collect tax@1%/0.75% from
the purchaser on sale of any motor vehicle of the value exceeding ` 10
lakhs.
Q.3 Whether TCS@1%/0.75% is applicable in the case of sale to
Government Departments, Embassies, Consulates and United Nation
Institutions, of motor vehicle or any other goods or provision of
services?
A. Government, institutions notified under United Nations (Privileges and
Immunities) Act 1947, and Embassies, Consulates, High Commission,
Legation, Commission and trade representation of a foreign State shall not
be liable to levy of TCS@1%/0.75% under section 206C(1F).
Q.4 Whether TCS is applicable on each sale of motor vehicle or on
aggregate value of sale during the year?
A. Tax is to be collected at source@1%/0.75% on sale consideration of a
motor vehicle exceeding ` 10 lakhs. It is applicable to each sale and not to
aggregate value of sale made during the year.
Q.5 Whether TCS@1%/0.75% on sale of motor vehicle is applicable in case
of an individual?
A. The definition of "Seller" as given in clause (c) of the Explanation below
sub-section (11) of section 206C shall be applicable in the case of sale of
motor vehicles also.
Q.6 How would the provisions of TCS on sale of motor vehicle be
applicable in a case where part of the payment is made in cash and
part is made by cheque?
A. The provisions of TCS on sale of motor vehicle exceeding ` 10 lakhs is not
dependent on mode of payment. Any sale of motor vehicle exceeding
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(4) Time of Collection of tax
The tax should be collected at the time of debiting of the amount payable by
the buyer or licensee or lessee, as the case may be, to his account or at the
time of receipt of such amount from the buyer or licensee or lessee, as the
case may be, by any mode, whichever is earlier.
In case of sale of a motor vehicle of the value exceeding ` 10 lakhs or sale of
goods exceeding ` 50 lakhs [other than exported goods and goods
mentioned in section 206C(1)], tax shall be collected at the time of receipt of
such amount under section 206C(1F) and 206C(1H), respectively.
(5) Non-applicability of TCS [Section 206C(1A)]
No collection of tax shall be made under section 206C(1), in the case of a
resident buyer, if such buyer furnishes to the person responsible for collecting
tax, a declaration in writing in duplicate in the prescribed form and verified in
the prescribed manner to the effect that goods referred to in section 206C(1)
above are to be utilised for the purpose of manufacturing, processing or
producing articles or things or for the purposes of generation of power and
not for trading purposes.
(6) Furnishing of copy of declaration within specified time [Section 206C(1B)]
The person responsible for collecting tax under this section shall deliver or
cause to be delivered to the Chief Commissioner or Commissioner one copy
of the declaration referred to in sub-section (1A) on or before 7th of the month
next following the month in which the declaration is furnished to him.
(7) TCS to be paid within prescribed time [Section 206C(3)]
Any amount collected under this section shall be paid within the prescribed
time to the credit of the Central Government or as the Board directs.
Time limit for paying tax collected to the credit of the Central
Government [Rule 37CA]
Person Period within which

collecting sums Circumstance such sum should be
in accordance paid to the credit of
with section the Central
206C(1)/(1C) Government
(1) An office of the (i) where the tax is paid on the same day
Government without production of
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(ii) where tax is paid on or before 7 days

accompanied by an from the end of the
income-tax challan month in which the
collection is made
(2) Collectors other within one week from
than an office of the last day of the
the Government month in which the
collection is made
(8) Main differences between TDS and TCS
TDS TCS
(1) TDS is tax deduction at source TCS is tax collection at source.
(2) Person responsible for paying is (i) Seller of certain goods is
required to deduct tax at source responsible for collecting tax at
at the prescribed rate. source at the prescribed rate
from the buyer.
(ii) Person who grants licence or
lease (in respect of any parking
lot, toll plaza, mine or quarry)
is responsible for collecting tax
at source at the prescribed rate
from the licensee or lessee, as
the case may be.
(iii) Authorised dealer receiving
amount for remittance out of
India under the LRS of the RBI
or seller of an overseas tour
program package is
responsible for collecting tax at
source at the prescribed rate
from the buyer.
(3) Generally, tax is required to be Generally, tax is required to be
deducted at the time of credit to collected at source at the time of
the account of the payee or at debiting of the amount payable by
the time of payment, whichever the buyer of certain goods to the
is earlier. account of the buyer or at the time

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However, in case of payment of of receipt of such amount from the
salary, payment in respect of life said buyer, whichever is earlier.
insurance policy etc. tax is However, in case of sale of motor
required to be deducted at the vehicle of the value exceeding
time of payment. ` 10 lakhs and sale of goods
exceeding ` 50 lakhs other than
exported goods and goods
mentioned in section 206C(1), tax
collection at source is required at
the time of receipt of sale
consideration.
Note – TCS will be dealt with in detail at the Final level.
(9) Common number for TDS and TCS [Section 203A]

(i) Persons responsible for deducting tax or collecting tax at source should apply
to the Assessing Officer for the allotment of a “tax-deduction and collection-
account number”.
(ii) Section 203A(2) enlists the documents/certificates/returns/challans in which
the “tax deduction account number” or “tax collection account number” or
“tax deduction and collection account number” has to be compulsorily
quoted. They are -
(a) challans for payment of any sum in accordance with the provisions of
section 200 or section 206C(3);
(b) certificates furnished under section 203 or section 206C(5);
(c) statements prepared and delivered or caused to be delivered in
accordance with the provisions of section 200(3) or section 206C(3).
(d) returns delivered in accordance with the provisions of section 206 or
section 206C(5B); and
(e) in all other documents pertaining to such transactions as may be
prescribed in the interests of revenue.
(iii) The requirement of obtaining and quoting of TAN under section 203A shall
not apply to such person, as may be notified by the Central Government in
this behalf.

LET US RECAPITULATE
I. TAX DEDUCTION AT SOURCE
Section Nature of Threshold Limit for Payer Payee Rate of TDS Time of
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payment deduction of tax at deduction

source
192 Salary Basic exemption limit Any person Individual Average rate At the time of
(` 2,50,000/` 3,00,000, responsible for (Employee) of income- payment 10
as the case may be). paying any tax
This is taken care of in income computed
computation of the chargeable under on the basis
average rate of the head “Salaries of the rates
income-tax. in force.
192A Premature Payment or aggregate Trustees of the Individual 10% [In case At the time of

withdrawal payment ≥ ` 50,000 EPF Scheme or (Employee) of failure to payment
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from any authorised furnish PAN,

Employee person under the TDS@
Provident Scheme Maximum
Fund Marginal
Rate]
193 Interest on > ` 10,000 in a F.Y., in Any person Any resident 10% (7.5% At the time of
Securities case of interest on 8% responsible for for the credit of such
Savings (Taxable) paying any period from income to the
Bonds, 2003/7.75% income by way of 14.5.2020 to account of the
Savings (Taxable) interest on 31.3.2021) payee or at the
Bonds, 2018. securities time of payment,
10
Except in case of TDS on perquisite of ESOP provided by eligible start-up
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source
> ` 5,000 in a F.Y., in whichever is
case of interest on earlier.
debentures issued by
a Co. in which the
public are
substantially
interested, paid or
credited to a resident
individual or HUF by
an A/c payee cheque.
> No threshold

specified in any other
case.
194 Dividend > ` 5,000 in a F.Y., in The Principal Resident 10% (7.5% Before making any
(including case of dividend paid Officer of a shareholder for the payment by any
dividends on or credited to an domestic period from mode in respect of
preference individual shareholder company 14.5.2020 to any dividend or
ADVANCE TAX, TDS AND INTRODUCTION TO TCS
shares) by any mode other 31.3.2021) before making any

than cash distribution or
> No threshold in payment of
other cases dividend.
194A Interest other > ` 40,000 in a F.Y., in Any person Any Resident 10% (7.5% At the time of
for the
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than interest case of interest credited (other than an credit of such

on securities or paid by – individual or HUF period from income to the
(i) a banking company; whose total sales, 14.5.2020 to account of the
gross receipts or 31.3.2021) payee or at the
turnover from time of payment,
source
(ii)a co-operative business or whichever is
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society engaged in profession do not earlier.

banking business; and exceed ` 1 crore
(iii) a post office on any in case of
deposit under a notified business or ` 50
Scheme. lakhs in case of
In all the above cases, if profession during
payee is a resident the immediately
senior citizen, tax preceding F.Y.)
deduction limit is > responsible for
` 50,000. paying interest

other than
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> ` 5,000 in a F.Y., in

other cases. interest on
securities.
194B Winnings from > ` 10,000 The person Any Person 30% At the time of
any lottery, responsible for payment
crossword paying income by
puzzle or card way of such
game or other winnings
game of any
sort
194BB Winnings from > `10,000 Book Maker or a Any Person 30% At the time of
horse race person holding payment
licence for horse
racing or for
arranging for
wagering or
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source
betting in any race
course.
194C Payments to Single sum credited or Central/State Govt., Any Resident 1% (0.75%*) At the time of
Contractors paid > ` 30,000 (or) Local authority, contractor for of sum paid credit of such sum
The aggregate of sums Central/State/ carrying out any or credited, if to the account of
credited or paid to a Provincial Corpn., work (including the payee is the contractor or
contractor during the company, firm, supply of an Individual at the time of
F.Y. > ` 1,00,000 trust, registered labour) or HUF payment,
Individual/HUF need society, co- 2% (1.5%*) of whichever is
not deduct tax where operative society, sum paid or earlier.
sum is credited or paid university credited, if

exclusively for established under the payee is
personal purposes Central/State/ any other
Provincial Act, person.
declared university * The rates of
under the UGC Act, 0.75% and
Govt. of Foreign 1.5% are for
State or a foreign the period

enterprise, from
individual/HUF 14.5.2020 to
whose total sales, 31.3.2021
gross receipts or
turnover from
9.99
business or
profession
exceeds ` 1 crore
in case of
business or ` 50
source
lakhs in case of
9.100
profession during
the immediately
preceding F.Y.
194D Insurance > ` 15,000 in a Any person Any Resident 5% (3.75% At the time of credit
Commission financial year responsible for for the of such income to
paying any period from the account of the
income by way of 14.5.2020 to payee or at the time
remuneration or 31.3.2021) of payment,
reward for whichever is earlier.
soliciting or

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procuring
insurance
business
194DA Any sum ≥ ` 1,00,000 Any person Any resident 5% of the At the time of
under a Life (aggregate amount of responsible for amount of payment
Insurance payment to a payee in a paying any sum income
Policy financial year) under a LIP, comprised
including the sum (3.75% for
allocated by way the period
of bonus from
14.5.2020 to
31.3.2021)
194E Payment to - Any person Non-resident 20.8% At the time of credit
non-resident responsible for sportsman (including of such income to
sportsmen or making the (including an health and the account of the
sports payment athelete) or payee or at the time
9.101
source
associations of entertainer who education of payment,
income is not a citizen of cess@4%) whichever is earlier.
referred to in India or non-
section resident sports
115BBA association or
institution
194EE Payment of ≥ ` 2,500 in a financial Any person Individual or 10% (7.5% At the time of
deposit under year responsible for HUF for payment payment
National paying to residents
Saving for the
Scheme period from

14.5.2020 to
31.3.2021)
194G Commission > ` 15,000 in a Any person Any person 5% (3.75% At the time of credit
on sale of financial year responsible for stocking, for payment of such income to
lottery tickets paying any distributing, to residents the account of the
income by way of purchasing or for the payee or at the time
commission, selling lottery period from of payment,
remuneration or tickets 14.5.2020 to whichever is earlier.

prize (by whatever 31.3.2021)
name called) on
lottery tickets
194H Commission > ` 15,000 in a Any person (other Any resident 5% (3.75% At the time of
or brokerage financial year than an for the credit of such
period from
9.101
Individual or HUF income to the

whose total sales, 14.5.2020 to account of the
gross receipts or 31.3.2021) payee or at the
source
turnover from time of payment,
9.102
business or whichever is
profession do not earlier.
exceed ` 1 crore
in case of
business or ` 50
lakhs in case of
profession during
the immediately
preceding F.Y.)
responsible for

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paying
commission or
brokerage.
194-I Rent > ` 2,40,000 in a Any person Any resident For P & M or At the time of
financial year (other than an equipment- credit of such
individual or HUF 2% (1.5%*) income to the
whose total sales, account of the
gross receipts or For land or payee or at the
turnover from building, land time of payment,
business or appurtenant whichever is
profession to a building, earlier.
carried on by him furniture or
do not exceed ` 1 fittings -10%
crore in case of (7.5%*)
business or ` 50 Note - The
lakhs in case of rates of 1.5%
9.103
source
profession during and 7.5% are
the immediately for the period
preceding F.Y.) from
responsible for 14.5.2020 to
paying rent. 31.3.2021
194-IA Payment on ≥ ` 50 lakh Any person, Resident 1% (0.75% At the time of credit
transfer of (Consideration for being a transferor for the of such sum to the
certain transfer) transferee (other period from account of the
immovable than a person 14.5.2020 to transferor or at the
property other referred to in 31.3.2021) time of payment,
than section 194LA whichever is earlier.

agricultural responsible for
land paying
compensation for
compulsory
acquisition of
immovable
property other
than rural
agricultural land)
194-IB Payment of > ` 50,000 for a month Individual/ HUF Any Resident 5% (3.75% At the time of credit
rent by certain or part of a month (other than for the of rent, for the last
individuals or Individual/HUF period from month of the
HUF whose total sales, 14.5.2020 to previous year or the
gross receipts or 31.3.2021) last month of
turnover from tenancy, if the
9.103
business or property is vacated

source
profession during the year, as
9.104
carried on by him the case may be, to

exceeds ` 1 crore the account of the
in case of payee or at the time
business or ` 50 of payment,
lakhs in case of whichever is earlier
profession during
the immediately
preceding F.Y.)
responsible for
paying rent.

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194-IC Payment No threshold Any person Any Resident 10% (7.5% At the time of
under specified. responsible for for the credit of such
specified paying any sum period from income to the
agreement by way of 14.5.2020 to account of the
referred to in consideration, 31.3.2021) payee or at the
section 45(5A) not being time of payment,
consideration in whichever is
kind, under a earlier.
registered
agreement,
wherein L or B or
both are handed
over by the
owner for
development of
real estate
9.105
source
project, for a
consideration,
being a share
in L or B or both
in such project,
with payment of
part
consideration in
cash.
194J Fees for > ` 30,000 in a financial Any person, other Any Resident 2% (1.5%*) - At the time of
professional year, for each category than an individual Payee credit of such sum

or technical of income. (However, or HUF; engaged to the account of
services/ this limit does not However, in case only in the the payee or at the
Royalty/ Non- apply in case of of fees for business of time of payment,
compete fees/ payment made to professional or operation of whichever is
Director’s director of a technical services call centre earlier.
remuneration company). paid or credited, 2% (1.5%*)-
individual/HUF, In case of
whose total sales, fees for
gross receipts or technical

turnover from services or
business or royalty,
profession where such
exceeds ` 1 crore royalty is in
in case of the nature of
business or ` 50 consider-
9.105
lakhs in case of ation for

profession during sale,
source
the immediately distribution
9.106
preceding F.Y., is or exhibition

liable to deduct of cinemato-
tax u/s 194J, graphic films
except where fees 10% (7.5%*)
for professional - Other
services is payments
credited or paid Note – The
exclusively for his rates would
personal be 1.5%,
purposes. 1.5% and

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7.5% for the

period from
14.5.2020 to
31.3.2021
194K Income on > ` 5,000 in a financial Any person Any resident 10% (7.5% At the time of
units other year responsible for during the credit of such sum
than in the paying any period from to the account of
nature of income in respect 14.5.2020 to the payee or at the
capital gains of units of a 31.3.2021) time of payment,
mutual whichever is
fund/Administrat earlier.
or of the
specified
undertaking/
specified
company
9.107
source
194LA Compensation > ` 2,50,000 in a Any person Any Resident 10% (7.5% At the time of
on acquisition financial year responsible for during the payment
of certain paying any sum period from
immovable in the nature of 14.5.2020 to
property other compensation or 31.3.2021)
than enhanced
agricultural compensation on
land compulsory
acquisition of
immovable
property

194M - Payments to > ` 50,00,000 in a Individual or HUF Any Resident 5% (3.75% At the time of
Contractors financial year other than those during the credit of such sum
- Commission who are required period from to the account of
or brokerage to deduct tax at 14.5.2020 to the payee or at the
- Fees for source under 31.3.2021) time of payment,
professional section 194C or whichever is
services 194H or 194J earlier.
194N Cash > ` 1 crore - a banking Any person @2% of such At the time of
withdrawals company or any sum payment of such

bank or banking sum
institution In case the
- a co-operative recipient has
society engaged not filed ROI
in carrying on the
9.107
for all the 3

business of immediately
banking or preceding
source
- a post office P.Y.s, for
9.108
who is which time

responsible for limit u/s
paying any sum, 139(1) has
being the amount expired,
or the aggregate such sum
of amounts, as shall be the
the case may be, amt or agg.
in cash exceeding of amts, in
` 1 crore during cash >` 20
the previous year, lakh during

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to any person the P.Y.

from one or more TDS
accounts - @2% of
maintained by the sum,
the recipient where cash
withdrawal
> ` 20 lakhs
but ≤ ` 1
crore
- @5% of
sum, where
cash
withdrawal
exceeds ` 1
crore
9.109
source
194-O > ` 5 lakhs, being E-commerce E-commerce 1% (0.75% At the time of
(w.e.f. gross amount of sales operator, who participant for the credit of such sum
1.10.20 or service or both in a facilitates sale of period upto to the account of
20) financial year to an e- goods or 31.3.2021) the payee or at the
commerce participant, provision of of gross time of payment,
being individual or services of an e- amount of whichever is
HUF and such e- commerce sale or earlier.
commerce participant participant service or
has furnished PAN or through digital or both [In case
Aadhar number to the electronic facility of failure to
e-commerce operator or platform furnish PAN,

> No threshold in Maximum
other cases TDS@5%]
Notes –
(1) Section 206AA requires furnishing of PAN by the deductee to the deductor, failing which the deductor has to
deduct tax at the higher of the following rates, namely, -
(i) at the rate specified in the relevant provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961; or
(ii) at the rate or rates in force; or
(iii) at the rate of 20% and in case of section 194-O, 5%.
(2) The threshold limit given in column (3) of the table is with respect to each payee.
9.109
9.110 INCOME TAX LAW
II Advance Payment of Tax

Liability for payment of advance tax [Sections 207 & 208]
• Tax shall be payable in advance during any financial year in respect of the
total income (TI) of the assessee which would be chargeable to tax for the
A.Y. immediately following that financial year.
• Advance tax is payable during a financial year in every case where the
amount of such tax payable by the assessee during the year is ` 10,000 or
more.
• However, an individual resident in India of the age of 60 years or more at
any time during the previous year, who does not have any income
chargeable under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession”
(PGBP), is not liable to pay advance tax.
Instalments of advance tax and due dates [Section 211]
Advance tax payment schedule for corporates and non-corporates (other
than an assessee computing profits on presumptive basis under section
44AD or section 44ADA) – Four instalments
Due date of instalment Amount payable
On or before 15th June Not less than 15% of advance tax liability.
On or before 15th Not less than 45% of advance tax liability (-)
September amount paid in earlier instalment.
On or before 15th Not less than 75% of advance tax liability (-)
December amount paid in earlier instalment or instalments.
On or before 15th March The whole amount of advance tax liability (-)
amount paid in earlier instalment or instalments.
Advance tax payment by assessees computing profits on presumptive
basis under section 44AD(1) or section 44ADA(1)
An eligible assessee, opting for computation of profits or gains of business or
profession on presumptive basis in respect of eligible business referred to in
section 44AD(1) or in respect of eligible profession referred to in section
44ADA(1), shall be required to pay advance tax of the whole amount on or
before 15th March of the F.Y.
However, any amount paid by way of advance tax on or before 31st March shall
also be treated as advance tax paid during the F.Y. ending on that day.

Interest for defaults in payment of advance tax [Section 234B]

(1) Interest under section 234B is attracted for non-payment of advance tax
or payment of advance tax of an amount less than 90% of assessed tax.
(2) The interest liability would be 1% per month or part of the month from 1st
April following the F.Y. upto the date of determination of total income
under section 143(1) and where regular assessment is made, upto the date
of such regular assessment.
(3) Such interest is calculated on the amount of difference between the
assessed tax and the advance tax paid.
(4) “Assessed tax” means the tax on total income determined u/s
143(1)/under regular assessment, as the case may be, less TDS & TCS, any
relief of tax allowed u/s 89, any tax credit allowed to be set off in
accordance with the provisions of section 115JD.
(5) Where self-assessment tax is paid by the assessee under section 140A
or otherwise, interest shall be calculated upto the date of payment of
such tax and reduced by the interest, if any, paid under section 140A
towards the interest chargeable under this section.
Interest for deferment of advance tax [Section 234C]
(a) Manner of computation of interest u/s 234C for deferment of
advance tax by corporate and non-corporate assessees:
In case an assessee, other than an assessee who declares profits and gains
in accordance with the provisions of section 44AD(1) or section 44ADA(1),
who is liable to pay advance tax u/s 208 has failed to pay such tax or the
advance tax paid by such assessee on its current income on or before the
dates specified in column (1) below is less than the specified percentage
[given in column (2) below] of tax due on returned income, then simple
interest@1% per month for the period specified in column (4) on the
amount of shortfall, as per column (3) is leviable u/s 234C.
Specified Specified Shortfall in advance tax Period
date %
(1) (2) (3) (4)
15th June 15% 15% of tax due on returned income 3
(-) advance tax paid up to 15th June months

15th 45% 45% of tax due on returned income 3

September (-) advance tax paid up to 15th months
September
15th 75% 75% of tax due on returned income 3
December (-) advance tax paid up to 15th months
December
15th March 100% 100% of tax due on returned 1 month
income (-) advance tax paid up to
15th March
Note – However, if the advance tax paid by the assessee on the current
income, on or before 15th June or 15th September, is not less than 12%
or 36% of the tax due on the returned income, respectively, then, the
assessee shall not be liable to pay any interest on the amount of the
shortfall on those dates.
Tax due on returned income = Tax chargeable on total income declared
in the return of income – TDS – TCS - any relief of tax allowed u/s 89 - any
tax credit allowed to be set off in accordance with the provisions of section
115JD
(b) Computation of interest under section 234C in case of an assessee
who declares profits and gains in accordance with the provisions of
section 44AD(1) or section 44ADA(1):
In case an assessee who declares profits and gains in accordance with the
provisions of section 44AD(1) or section 44ADA(1), who is liable to pay
advance tax u/s 208 has failed to pay such tax or the advance tax paid by
the assessee on its current income on or before 15th March is less than
the tax due on the returned income, then, the assessee shall be liable to
pay simple interest at the rate of 1% on the amount of the shortfall from
the tax due on the returned income.
(c) Non-applicability of interest under section 234C in certain cases:
Interest under section 234C shall not be leviable in respect of any shortfall
in payment of tax due on returned income, where such shortfall is on
account of under-estimate or failure to estimate –
(i) the amount of capital gains;
(ii) income of nature referred to in section 2(24)(ix) i.e., winnings from
lotteries, crossword puzzles etc.;

(iii) income under the head “Profits and gains of business or

profession” in cases where the income accrues or arises under the
said head for the first time.
However, the assessee should have paid the whole of the amount of tax
payable in respect of such income referred to in (i), (ii) and (iii), as the case
may be, had such income been a part of the total income, as part of the
remaining instalments of advance tax which are due or where no such
instalments are due, by 31st March of the financial year.
Tax Collection at source [Section 206C]
(a) Sellers of certain goods are required to collect tax from the buyers at
the specified rates. The specified percentage for collection of tax at
source is as follows:
Percentage
From From
Nature of Goods 1.4.2020 14.5.2020
to to
13.5.2020 31.3.2021
(i) Alcoholic liquor for human 1% 1%
consumption
(ii) Tendu leaves 5% 3.75%
(iii) Timber obtained under a forest 2.5% 1.875%
lease
(iv) Timber obtained by any mode other 2.5% 1.875%
than (iii)
(v) Any other forest produce not being 2.5% 1.875%
timber or tendu leaves
(vi) Scrap 1% 0.75%
(vii) Minerals, being coal or lignite or 1% 0.75%
iron ore
However, no collection of tax shall be made in the case of a resident
buyer, if such buyer furnishes a declaration in writing in duplicate to
the effect that goods are to be utilised for the purpose of
manufacturing, processing or producing articles or things or for the
purposes of generation of power and not for trading purposes
(b) Every person who grants a lease or a licence or enters into a contract
or otherwise transfers any right or interest in any
- parking lot or

- toll plaza or
- a mine or a quarry
to another person (other than a public sector company) for the use of
such parking lot or toll plaza or mine or quarry for the purposes of
business. The tax shall be collected as provided, from the licensee or
lessee of any such licence, contract or lease of the specified nature, at
the rate of 2% (1.5% during the period between 14.5.2020 to 31.3.2021),
at the time of debiting of the amount payable by the licensee or lessee
to his account or at the time of receipt of such amount from the
licensee or lessee in cash or by the issue of a cheque or draft or by any
other mode, whichever is earlier
(c) Every person, being a seller, who receives any amount as consideration
for sale of a motor vehicle of the value exceeding ` 10 lakhs, shall, at
the time of receipt of such amount, collect tax from the buyer@1%
(0.75% during the period between 14.5.2020 to 31.3.2021) of the sale
consideration.
(d) Every person,
- being an authorized dealer, who receives amount under the
Liberalised Remittance Scheme of the RBI for overseas remittance
from a buyer, being a person remitting such amount out of India,
- being seller of an overseas tour programme package who receives
any amount from the buyer who purchases the package
has to collect tax at the rate of 5% of such amount at the time of debiting
of the amount payable by the buyer or at the time of receipt of such
amount from the said buyer by any mode, whichever is earlier.
Rate of TCS in case of collection by an authorized dealer
S. Amount and purpose of remittance Rate of
No. TCS
(i) (a) Where the amount is remitted for a purpose Nil
other than purchase of overseas tour (No tax to
programme package; and be collected
(b) the amount or aggregate of the amounts at source)
being remitted by a buyer is less than ` 7
lakhs in a financial year

(ii) (a) Where the amount is remitted for a purpose 5% of the

other than purchase of overseas tour amt or agg.
programme package; and of amts in
(b) the amount or aggregate of the amounts in excess of
excess of ` 7 lakhs is remitted by the buyer ` 7 lakh
in a financial year
(iii) (a) where the amount being remitted out is a 0.5% of the
loan obtained from any financial amt or agg.
institution, for the purpose of pursuing any of amts in
education; and excess of
(b) the amount or aggregate of the amounts in ` 7 lakh
excess of ` 7 lakhs is remitted by the buyer
in a financial year
Cases where no tax is to be collected
(i) No TCS by the authorized dealer on an amount in respect of
which the sum has been collected by the seller
(ii) No TCS, if the buyer is liable to deduct tax at source under any
other provision of the Act and has deducted such tax
(iii) No TCS, if the buyer is the Central Government, a State
Government, an embassy, a High Commission, a legation, a
commission, a consulate, the trade representation of a foreign
State, a local authority or any other person notified by the
Central Government, subject to fulfillment of conditions
stipulated thereunder
(e) Every person, being a seller, who receives any amount as consideration
for sale of goods of the value exceeding ` 50 lakhs in a previous year,
other than exported goods or goods covered in (a)/(c)/(d)], is required
to collect tax at source, at the time of receipt of such amount, @0.1%
(0.075% during the period between 14.5.2020 to 31.3.2021) of the sale
consideration exceeding ` 50 lakhs.
However, tax is not required to be collected if the buyer is liable to
deduct tax at source under any other provision of the Act on the goods
purchased by him from the seller and has deducted such tax.
In case of non-furnishing of PAN or Aadhar number by the buyer to the
seller, tax is required to be collected at the higher of –
(i) twice the rate specified in this sub-section; and
(ii) 1%.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Question 1
Ashwin doing manufacture and wholesale trade furnishes you the following
information:
Total turnover for the financial year
Particulars `
2019-20 1,05,00,000
2020-21 95,00,000
Examine whether tax deduction at source provisions are attracted for the below said
expenses incurred during the financial year 2020-21:
Particulars `
Interest paid to UCO Bank on 15.8.2020 41,000
Contract payment to Raj (2 contracts of ` 12,000 each) on 12.12.2020 24,000
Shop rent paid (one payee) on 21.1.2021 2,50,000
Commission paid to Balu on 15.3.2021 7,000
Answer
As the turnover of business carried on by Ashwin for F.Y. 2019-20, has exceeded
` 1 crore, he has to comply with the tax deduction provisions during the financial
year 2020-21, subject to, the exemptions provided for under the relevant sections
for applicability of TDS provisions.
Interest paid to UCO Bank
TDS under section 194A is not attracted in respect of interest paid to a banking
company.
Contract payment of ` 24,000 to Raj for 2 contracts of ` 12,000 each
TDS provisions under section 194C would not be attracted if the amount paid to a
contractor does not exceed ` 30,000 in a single payment or ` 1,00,000 in the
aggregate during the financial year. Therefore, TDS provisions under section 194C
are not attracted in this case.
Shop Rent paid to one payee – Tax has to be deducted@7.5% under section 194-
I as the annual rental payment exceeds ` 2,40,000.
Commission paid to Balu – No, tax has to be deducted under section 194-H in this
case as the commission does not exceed ` 15,000.

Question 2
Compute the amount of tax deduction at source on the following payments made by
M/s. S Ltd. during the financial year 2020-21 as per the provisions of the Income-tax
Act, 1961.
Sr. Date Nature of Payment
No.
(i) 1-10-2020 Payment of ` 2,00,000 to Mr. “R” a transporter who owns
8 goods carriages throughout the previous year and
furnishes a declaration to this effect alongwith his PAN.
(ii) 1-11-2020 Payment of fee for technical services of ` 25,000 and
Royalty of ` 20,000 to Mr. Shyam who is having PAN.
(iii) 30-06-2020 Payment of ` 25,000 to M/s X Ltd. for repair of building.
(iv) 01-01-2021 Payment of ` 2,00,000 made to Mr. A for purchase of
diaries made according to specifications of M/s S Ltd.
However, no material was supplied for such diaries to Mr.
A by M/s S Ltd or its associates.
(v) 01-01-2021 Payment made ` 1,80,000 to Mr. Bharat for compulsory
acquisition of his house as per law of the State
Government.
(vi) 01-02-2021 Payment of commission of ` 14,000 to Mr. Y.
Answer
(i) No tax is required to be deducted at source under section 194C by M/s S Ltd.
on payment to transporter Mr. R, since he satisfies the following conditions:
(1) He owns ten or less goods carriages at any time during the previous
year.
(2) He is engaged in the business of plying, hiring or leasing goods
carriages;
(3) He has furnished a declaration to this effect along with his PAN.
(ii) As per section 194J, liability to deduct tax is attracted only in case the
payment made as fees for technical services and royalty, individually, exceeds
` 30,000 during the financial year. In the given case, since, the individual
payments for fee of technical services i.e., ` 25,000 and royalty ` 20,000 is less
than ` 30,000 each, there is no liability to deduct tax at source. It is assumed
that no other payment towards fees for technical services and royalty were
made during the year to Mr. Shyam.

(iii) Provisions of section 194C are not attracted in this case, since the payment
for repair of building on 30.06.2020 to M/s. X Ltd. is less than the threshold
limit of ` 30,000.
(iv) According to section 194C, the definition of “work” does not include the
manufacturing or supply of product according to the specification by
customer in case the material is purchased from a person other than the
customer or associate of such customer.
Therefore, there is no liability to deduct tax at source in respect of payment
of ` 2,00,000 to Mr. A, since the contract is a contract for ‘sale’.
(v) As per section 194LA, any person responsible for payment to a resident, any sum
in the nature of compensation or consideration on account of compulsory
acquisition under any law, of any immovable property, is responsible for
deduction of tax at source if such payment or the aggregate amount of such
payments to the resident during the financial year exceeds ` 2,50,000.
In the given case, no liability to deduct tax at source is attracted as the
payment made does not exceed ` 2,50,000.
(vi) As per section 194H, tax is deductible at source if the amount of commission
or brokerage or the aggregate of the amounts of commission or brokerage
credited or paid during the financial year exceeds ` 15,000.
Since the commission payment made to Mr. Y does not exceed ` 15,000, the
provisions of section 194H are not attracted.
Question 3
Examine the applicability of TDS provisions and TDS amount in the following cases:
(a) Rent paid for hire of machinery by B Ltd. to Mr. Raman ` 2,60,000 on 27.9.2020.
(b) Fee paid on 1.12.2020 to Dr. Srivatsan by Sundar (HUF) ` 35,000 for surgery
performed on a member of the family.
(c) ABC and Co. Ltd. paid ` 19,000 to one of its Directors as sitting fees on
01-01-2021.
Answer
(a) Since the rent paid for hire of machinery by B. Ltd. to Mr. Raman exceeds
` 2,40,000, the provisions of section 194-I for deduction of tax at source are
attracted.

The rate applicable for deduction of tax at source under section 194-I on rent
paid for hire of plant and machinery is 1.5%, assuming that Mr. Raman had
furnished his permanent account number to B Ltd.
Therefore, the amount of tax to be deducted at source:
= ` 2,60,000 x 1.5% = ` 3,900.
Note: In case Mr. Raman does not furnish his permanent account number to
B Ltd., tax shall be deducted @ 20% on ` 2,60,000, by virtue of provisions of
section 206AA.
(b) As per the provisions of section 194J, a Hindu Undivided Family is required
to deduct tax at source on fees paid for professional services only if the total
sales, gross receipts or turnover form the business or profession exceed ` 1
crore in case of business or ` 50 lakhs in case of profession, as the case may
be, in the financial year preceding the current financial year and such payment
made for professional services is not exclusively for the personal purpose of
any member of Hindu Undivided Family.
Section 194M, provides for deduction of tax at source by a HUF (which is not
required to deduct tax at source under section 194J) in respect of fees for
professional service if such sum or aggregate of such sum exceeds ` 50 lakhs
during the financial year.
In the given case, the fees for professional service to Dr. Srivatsan is paid on
1.12.2020 for a personal purpose, therefore, section 194J is not attracted.
Section 194M would have been attracted, if the payment or aggregate of
payments exceeded ` 50 lakhs in the P.Y.2020-21. However, since the
payment does not exceed ` 50 lakh in this case, there is no liability to deduct
tax at source under section 194M also.
(c) Section 194J provides for deduction of tax at source @7.5% from any sum
paid by way of any remuneration or fees or commission, by whatever name
called, to a resident director, which is not in the nature of salary on which tax
is deductible under section 192. The threshold limit of ` 30,000 upto which
the provisions of tax deduction at source are not attracted in respect of every
other payment covered under section 194J is, however, not applicable in
respect of sum paid to a director.
Therefore, tax@7.5% has to be deducted at source under section 194J in
respect of the sum of ` 19,000 paid by ABC Ltd. to its director.
Therefore, the amount of tax to be deducted at source:
= ` 19,000 x 7.5% = ` 1,425

Question 4
Examine the applicability of tax deduction at source provisions, the rate and amount
of tax deduction in the following cases for the financial year 2020-21:
(1) Payment of ` 27,000 made to Jacques Kallis, a South African cricketer, by an
Indian newspaper agency on 02-07-2020 for contribution of articles in relation
to the sport of cricket.
(2) Payment made by a company to Mr. Ram, sub-contractor, ` 3,00,000 with
outstanding balance of ` 1,20,000 shown in the books as on 31-03-2021.
(3) Winning from horse race ` 1,50,000 paid to Mr. Shyam, an Indian resident.
(4) ` 2,00,000 paid to Mr. A, a resident individual, on 22-02-2021 by the State of
Uttar Pradesh on compulsory acquisition of his urban land.
Answer
(1) Section 194E provides that the person responsible for payment of any amount
to a non-resident sportsman who is not a citizen of India for contribution of
articles relating to any game or sport in India in a newspaper has to deduct
tax at source@20%. Further, since Jacques Kallis, a South African cricketer, is
a non-resident, health and education cess @4% on TDS should also be added.
Therefore, tax to be deducted = ` 27,000 x 20.80% = ` 5,616.
(2) Provisions of tax deduction at source under section 194C are attracted in
respect of payment by a company to a sub-contractor. Under section 194C,
tax is deductible at the time of credit or payment, whichever is earlier @ 0.75%
in case the payment is made to an individual.
Since the aggregate amount credited or paid during the year is ` 4,20,000,
tax is deductible @ 0.75% on ` 4,20,000.
Tax to be deducted = ` 4,20,000 x 0.75% = ` 3,150
(3) Under section 194BB, tax is to be deducted at source, if the winnings from
horse races exceed ` 10,000. The rate of deduction of tax at source is 30%.
Hence, tax to be deducted = ` 1,50,000 x 30% = ` 45,000.
(4) As per section 194LA, any person responsible for payment to a resident, any
sum in the nature of compensation or consideration on account of
compulsory acquisition under any law, of any immovable property, is required
to deduct tax at source, if such payment or the aggregate amount of such
payments to the resident during the financial year exceeds ` 2,50,000.

In the given case, there is no liability to deduct tax at source as the payment
made to Mr. A does not exceed ` 2,50,000.
Question 5
Briefly discuss the provisions relating to payment of advance tax on income arising
from capital gains and casual income.
Answer
The proviso to section 234C contains the provisions for payment of advance tax in
case of capital gains and casual income.
Advance tax is payable by an assessee on his/its total income, which includes capital
gains and casual income like income from lotteries, crossword puzzles, etc.
Since it is not possible for the assessee to estimate his capital gains, or income from
lotteries etc., it has been provided that if any such income arises after the due date
for any instalment, then, the entire amount of the tax payable (after considering tax
deducted at source) on such capital gains or casual income should be paid in the
remaining instalments of advance tax, which are due.
Where no such instalment is due, the entire tax should be paid by 31st March of
the relevant financial year.
No interest liability on late payment would arise if the entire tax liability is so paid.
Note: In case of casual income the entire tax liability is fully deductible at source
@30% under section 194B and 194BB. Therefore, advance tax liability would arise
only if the surcharge, if any, and health and education cess@4% in respect thereof,
along with tax liability in respect of other income, if any, is ` 10,000 or more.
Question 6
Mr. Jay having total income of ` 8,70,000, did not pay any advance tax during the
previous year 2020-21. He wishes to pay the whole of the tax, along with interest if
any, on filing the return in the month of July, 2021. What is total tax which Mr. Jay
has to deposit as self-assessment tax along with interest, if he files the return on
29.07.2021? Assume that he does not exercise the option under section 115BAC.
Answer
Obligation to pay advance tax arises in every case, where the advance tax payable
is ` 10,000 or more. As a consequence of such failure, assessee may be charged
with interest under section 234B and 234C.
In the given case, since Mr. Jay did not deposit any amount of advance tax during

the previous year, he will need to pay the total tax due on his income along with
interest on default of payment of advance tax (section 234B) and interest for
deferment of advance tax (section 234C) before filing of his return.
Total tax due on returned income of ` 8,70,000 is ` 89,960 [(20% of ` 3,70,000 +
` 12,500) + cess@4%]
Interest under section 234B
Interest under section 234B is attracted - a) When the assessee, who is liable to pay
advance tax has failed to pay such tax; or b) Where the advance tax paid by the
assessee is less than 90% of the assessed tax.
Since, Mr. Jay did not pay any amount as advance tax, interest under section 234B at 1%
per month or part of the month will be levied beginning from 1st April of the following
year i.e. 01.04.2021 till the time he deposits the whole tax under self-assessment.
Interest will be levied on tax liability of ` 89,900 (rounded off to nearest hundred,
ignoring fraction) at 1% for four months i.e. from 1st April to 29th July.
The interest under section 234B amount to ` 3,596
Interest under section 234C
Assessees, other than assessee who declares profits and gains in accordance with
provision of section 44AD(1) or section 44ADA(1), are liable to pay advance tax in
4 installments during the previous year. Section 234C is attracted, if the actual
instalment paid by the assessee is the less than the amount required to be paid by
him on such instalments. The interest shall be calculated at 1% per month or part
of the month for short payment or non-payment of each instalment.
In the given scenario, since Mr. Jay, did not deposit any amount as advance tax, the
interest under section 234C is calculated as under –
Date of Instalment Specified Amount due and Period Interest
% of unpaid (rounded @ 1%
estimated off to nearest
tax ` 100, ignoring
fraction)
15th June 2020 15% 13,400 3 months 402
15 September 2020
th
45% 40,400 3 months 1,212
15 December 2020
th
75% 67,400 3 months 2,022
15th March 2021 100% 89,900 1 month 899
Total interest under section 234C 4,535
Mr. Jay needs to pay ` 98,091 as total of tax and interest on or before filing of
return in the month of July, 2021.

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CHAPTER 9

ADVANCE TAX, TAX

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Tax deduction Tax Collection

Deduction of tax at Liability to pay Collection of tax

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1. DEDUCTION OF TAX AT SOURCE AND

2. DIRECT PAYMENT [SECTION 191]

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3. DEDUCTION OF TAX AT SOURCE

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(2) Manner of deduction of tax

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(3) Furnishing of statement of particulars of perquisites or profits in lieu of

S. No. Nature of Claim Evidence or particulars

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3.2 Premature withdrawal from employees provident fund [Section 192A]

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mortgage bank or a co-operative land development bank), as notified

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(ii) time deposits with a co-operative society carrying on the business

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(j) income paid by way of interest on the compensation amount awarded

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Applicability of provisions for deduction of tax at source under section

Deduction of tax at source on interest income accrued to minor child,

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relation to furnishing and verification of the statements in the manner so

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(4) Person responsible for deduction of tax under section 194BB

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material purchased from a person, other than such customer or associate of

Meaning of Goods carriage:

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However, transportation charges paid to a third party transporter of gas,

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3.9 Payment in respect of life insurance policy [Section 194-DA]

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an athlete) or an entertainer who is not a citizen of India or a non-resident