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♦ If you are paying more than Rs.50 lakhs to any resident person for any professional / commission or contract work – You need to deduct 5% TDS irrespective of facts that expense is personal or business.

For e.g. Assume you wants to construct a residential house and you hire a contractor and pays more than Rs.50 Lakh you need to deduct 5% TDS irrespective of fact that the expense is personal in nature.

♦ If you are selling “goods” to any person more than Rs.50 lakhs, you need to collect 0.10% TCS from Buyer. However this provision is applicable only if seller turnover is more than Rs.10 crores in preceding financial year.

For e.g. Assume you sells Rs.60 lakhs goods to buyer ABC Limited, then you need to collect 0.10% on 10 lakhs i.e. Rs.1000 from ABC limited in addition to your sales invoice amount.

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♦ If you are making payment to a tour operator for your travel plans outside India, then tour operator will collect 5% from you as TCS in excess of Rs.7 Lakhs package.

For e.g. Assume you paid Rs.10 lakhs to a tour operator for booking your travel plans outside India, then tour operator will collect Rs.15000/- as TCS {(10 Lakhs – 7 Lakhs)*5%} in addition to 10 Lakhs for tour.

♦ If you are transferring more than Rs.7 lakhs per financial year outside India, then Banks /authorised person will collect 5% TCS in addition to 7 Lakh rupees.

For e.g. Assume you paid Rs.10 lakhs to your relative outside India, then Banks /authorised dealer will collect Rs.15000/- as TCS {(10 Lakhs – 7 Lakhs)*5%} in addition to 10 Lakhs for transfer amount.

♦  If you deposited more than Rs.1 crores in any current account, then you need to compulsory file your income tax return even though your income is less than basic exemption limit. Please note deposit includes all transaction i.e. cash + cheque + NEFT + transfers etc.

For e.g. Assume you deposited Rs.60 lakhs in Kotak bank and Rs.60 lakhs in HDFC Bank cuurent account, i.e. Total Rs.1.20 crores, then you need to compulsory file income tax return.

♦ If you have incurred more than Rs.2 lakhs for your foreign tour, then you need to compulsory file your income tax return even though your income is less than basic exemption limit. Please note if you paid whether for yourself or for any person, it doesn’t matter.

For e.g. Assume you go to Dubai and incurred total expenditure of Rs.3 lakhs, then you need to file your income tax return compulsory.

♦ If you have incurred more than Rs.1 lakhs for your electricity bill in a financial year, then you need to compulsory file your income tax return even though your income is less than basic exemption limit. Please note if you paid whether for your office or for your house, it doesn’t matter as no clarification from CBDT has been made.

For e.g. Assume you paid Rs.1.20 lakhs total for your office electricity bill, then then you need to file your income tax return compulsory.

♦ From Financial Year 2020-21, every individual has option whether they want to follow old tax rate (i.e. claiming 80C Benefits etc.) or follow new rate. To decide which option is best, individual can use below link. Please note that there are certain conditions to avail the new tax rates.

https://www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/Tax_Calculator/index.html?lang=eng

♦ From Financial Year 2019-20 income tax return, you can now claim 2 residential houses as “self-occupied” instead of “deemed let out” till FY 2018-19.

For e.g. You have 2 residential houses, then till FY 2018-19 you need to declare 1 residential house as deemed let out and offered tax on it even though it is not let out and vacant. However from FY 2019-20, you can claim upto 2 residential houses as self-occupied and no taxes will be counted on it

♦ If you cash deposit or cash withdraw more than Rs.50 lakhs to / from your current bank account – Bank will report to Income Tax authority.

If you cash deposit more than Rs.10 lakhs from your savings bank account – Bank will report to Income Tax authority.

If you do fixed deposit more than Rs.10 lakhs in a financial year – Bank will report to Income Tax authority.

If you do paid more than Rs.10 lakhs to a credit card company in a financial year – Credit Card Company will report to Income Tax authority.

If you purchase share of company (listed or unlisted) more than Rs.10 lakhs in a financial year – Company will report to Income Tax authority.

♦ If you are a seller selling goods or services from an e-commerce operator, then e-commerce operator will deduct 1% TDS on Invoice value. Please note similar provision is also there in GST Act, hence double deduction for a seller selling from e-commerce platform.

For e.g. You sells goods or services from amazon, then amazon will deduct 1% TDS on sales invoice in addition to his commission and other charges.

♦ Every person need to report in his income tax return about all companies where he or she is a director. Further they are also required to report all shares of company (other than listed shares) were he or she is a shareholder.

♦ Make sure you report all your bank account whether current, savings, overdraft etc. in your income tax return. Non-disclosure will initiate other complications.

♦ Make sure you verify your 26AS before filing income tax return and if any unusual or unidentified transactions are reported then do not claim credit of that. Further if any transactions are wrongly reported by deductor then report to it to revised his TDS return, so that proper figures are reflected in your 26AS.

♦ Make sure your GST return sales matches with your income tax return sales and vice-versa and if there is any deviation then prepare a reconciliation so that you are ready when notice comes to you.

♦ Make sure all share market transactions are properly reported in your income tax return as there would be serious implication of not reporting to.

♦ Make sure all foreign income or foreign bank account or any foreign company holding is reported in your income tax return, as non-disclosure will have serious implications of it.

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18 Comments

  1. NARESH KUMAR says:

    If my friend receives 80 lakhs in his current account, what are his tax liabilities.He is a owner of car selling agency

  2. Shailesh Chaudhari says:

    Sold house in March’21. Transaction completed in 2020-21. But Bajaj Housing Finance Limited (BHFL) did not hand over DD of major chunk of total consideration in time for it to get deposited in my bank account during the same financial year. The DD will get deposited in my bank account in April 2021. The buyer has already done the TDS in advance in March’21 itself as required by BHFL. So now I am confused as to when and how is the taxation to be completed for this transaction? Please advise.

  3. Harishankar Mittal says:

    Sir,
    I am a site Accountant in a company. My company deposit the money thru cheque in my saving account. May I liable to pay Income tax on such amount.

    Please reply..

    Thanka

  4. Amit says:

    Sir my mother is a senior citizen and file ITR a retired govt. Servent. She withdraw 6 lakh from her saving account for some purpose but due to some reason purpose was postponed so she deposited 4 lakh in her account on same day.Is it safe

  5. Guru says:

    I have given credit cards to my friends and the amount was nearly 40lakh .they have only processed the payment through net banking .how can I explain this to the income tax authorities and I already got It verified on 26as.

  6. Raj says:

    Hi Sir my cousin brother is giving me 10 lacks which is long due ans we have given in like many years back… I am a NRI of that 10 lacks cash is deposited in my account would there be any tax implications? Thanks

  7. Prabhakar says:

    Sir, there isa ten lakh limit on credit card after which expenses are reported. If I have two cards from 2 different banks where I spend 6 lakhs each, total 12 lakhs combined, will that still be reported

  8. Shyamlal says:

    Sir, credit card txn 10 lakhs limit.
    I ve shortage of money so used to convert the amount to cash by using insurance payments .
    I ve 2 lakh limit in credit card.
    In a yr ,24 lakhs.
    Will I b asked to justify?

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