When the assessee has received Form 15I from the payee and no deduction is made on that basis, no disallowance can be made u/s 194C only for the reason that the forms were not submitted in time before the jurisdictional CIT

ITO Vs Rajesh Kr Garg (ITAT Kolkata)- In the present case the claim of the asse see is that at the time of paying the interest to the 34 persons mentioned in the assessment order, he had before him the appropriate declarations in the prescribed form from the payees stating that no tax was payable by them in respect of their total income and therefore tax need not be deducted from interest under section 194A, and in the light of these declarations he had no option but to make the payment of interest without any tax deduction. If the claim is true then the contention must be accepted because ...