TDS not deductible on Payment for Reimbursement of Costs

Pr. CIT Vs Goldman Sachs (India) Finance Pvt Ltd. (Bombay High Court) The amount in question was by way of reimbursement of costs. The Tribunal held that Assessee had paid such sums towards administrative costs such as the employee cost, rent, finance and legal corporate recharge etc. The Tribunal noted that, GSIPL had provided services to the assessee by deploying its employees for such work and the cost was for reimbursement for such expenses besides other related expenditure. Revenue was unable to dislodge these findings of fact recorded by the Tribunal. That being the position, we must pro...