Income Tax : When a resident buys unlisted shares from a non-resident, TDS must be deducted on gross consideration under Section 195, subject t...
Income Tax : Payments for sports sponsorship that grant global trademark usage can be split as royalty. Courts upheld withholding where tradema...
Income Tax : When only one spouse pays for a jointly owned property, TDS liability rests with the paying spouse. Builders’ insistence on both...
Income Tax : Buyers must deduct TDS under Section 195 on amounts paid to NRI sellers, deposit by the 7th of the following month, and not rely o...
Income Tax : Section 194-IA mandates 1% TDS on immovable property purchases from resident sellers if consideration or stamp duty value is ₹50...
Income Tax : Direct & Indirect Taxes : Monthly Updates Date & Time – 3rd December 2022 (Time:11 a.m to 12:30 p.m) Tax Guru is Organiz...
Income Tax : Clarification on certain procedural and technical issues regarding the Income Disclosure Scheme, 2016 (IDS) under section 119 of t...
Income Tax : Finance Act, 2012 extended the obligation to withhold taxes to non- residents irrespective of whether the non-resident has -...
Income Tax : Government has recently modified the Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account Transactions) Rules, 2000 and the Liberalized Re...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court judgement on Vodafone tax case seems to have opened a Pandora's box with exporters too expressing reservation on...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that absence of a clear charge in the penalty notice makes the proceedings invalid. It ruled that failure to spe...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that commission paid to foreign agents for services rendered outside India is not taxable in India. Consequently...
Income Tax : Bombay High Court held that application for NIL withholding tax certificate rightly rejected since matter of taxability of fees fo...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that consultancy payments for architectural services were not FTS since no technical knowledge was made availabl...
Income Tax : The Tribunal rejected the Revenue’s argument that taxpayers must seek AO determination under Section 195(2) in all cases. It hel...
Income Tax : CBDT notifies the Income-tax (Seventh Amendment) Rules, 2025, updating Forms 26Q and 27Q to include Section 194T on payments to fi...
Income Tax : it has been decided that no such request for Form 15E for certificates under section 195(2) & 195(7) for a particular Financial Ye...
Income Tax : CBDT vide notification No. 18/2021-Income Tax, Dated: March 16, 2021 inserted new rule 29BA. Application for grant of certificate ...
Income Tax : Clarification on orders dated 31.03.2020 and 03.04.2020 issued under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) by CBDT vid...
Income Tax : In case of pending applications for lower/nil rate of TDS/TCS for F.Y. 2019-20, the Assessing Officers have been directed to dispo...
Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Chennai) The submissions of Ld. AR are that warranty expenditure is part of overall sales obligations and the expenditure is reimbursed on actual basis. The warranty obligation being part and parcel of sales transactions and therefore, the same could not be held to be ‘fees for technical […]
Ingram Micro Inc. Vs ITO (Bombay High Court) The undisputed fact is that petitioner is not the purchaser of shares of THL. Respondent no.1 has failed to appreciate that the shares have been purchased by IMAHI, a wholly owned subsidiary of petitioner and not by petitioner and, therefore, the question of Section 195 of the […]
Bajaj Foods Ltd Vs The ITO (ITAT Ahmedabad) Undeniably the interest paid to Barclays Bank by the assessee has been added to the income of the assessee for non deduction of tax at source thereon as per section 195 of the Act treating the said Bank to be a non redident. The order of the […]
Section 195 of the Act governs the TDS deduction on payments to non residents. It states that any person responsible for making payment outside India to a company or a non company is required to deduct TDS at the time of payment or credit, whichever is earlier at the rates in force. Let us understand […]
it has been decided that no such request for Form 15E for certificates under section 195(2) & 195(7) for a particular Financial Year shall be accepted after 15th of March of the Financial Year. For instance, no application for certificates for Financial Year 2021-22 shall be allowed after 15.03.2022.
ITO Vs Terapanth Foods Limited (ITAT Rajkot) It is pertinent to note that the CIT(A) has categorically mentioned that Section 195 of the Act would apply only if payment is made which is chargeable under Income Tax Act 1961. The Assessing Officer has not given any reason as to why the chargeability of tax under […]
Tribunal held the addition to be erroneous and has considered in detail the nature and expenses in respect of which the assessee was sought to be penalized for not deducting the tax deducted at sources, holding that these expenses were in respect of the income accrued outside the territory for services rendered. With this finding the said question was rejected.
Moonfrog Labs Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) The Ld.CIT(A) held that the advertisement expenses paid to Facebook and other entities constitutes use of industrial, commercial or scientific equipment under section 9(1)(vi) of the Act whether active or passive and hence ‘Royalty’ under the Act. As regards taxability as ‘“Fees for technical services’, it was […]
Section 40(a)(i) did not contemplate order wise commission based on the order value. Consequently, the expenditure on export commission payable to non-residents for services rendered outside India became an allowable expenditure.
IT support services availed by assessee-Indian company from foreign companies were standard connectivity and networking services could not be termed as technical services within the meaning of Section 9(1)(vii) and therefore, assessee was not liable to deduct TDS on such expenditures.
