Circular: No. 155 -Income Tax Section195 imposes a statutory obligation on any person responsible for paying to a non-resident, any interest (not being “interest on securities”) or any other sum (not being dividends) chargeable under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, to deduct income-tax at the rates in force unless he is himself liable to pay income-tax thereon as an agent. Payments to a non-resident by way of royalty
