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Section 195 TDS on Share Purchase from Non-Resident: Complete LTCG Guide

Income Tax : When a resident buys unlisted shares from a non-resident, TDS must be deducted on gross consideration under Section 195, subject t...

February 23, 2026 2946 Views 0 comment Print

TDS u/s 195 on Sponsorship & Trademark Rights – Indo-Singapore DTAA

Income Tax : Payments for sports sponsorship that grant global trademark usage can be split as royalty. Courts upheld withholding where tradema...

January 1, 2026 1050 Views 0 comment Print

TDS on Instalments for Property Purchase in Joint Names Where Only One Spouse Pays (Under-Construction Property)

Income Tax : When only one spouse pays for a jointly owned property, TDS liability rests with the paying spouse. Builders’ insistence on both...

December 28, 2025 2106 Views 0 comment Print

Property Purchase from an NRI: When to Deduct and Deposit TDS

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...

December 28, 2025 2556 Views 2 comments Print

Understanding TDS on Immovable Property Purchases: A Buyer’s Guide

Income Tax : Section 194-IA mandates 1% TDS on immovable property purchases from resident sellers if consideration or stamp duty value is ₹50...

November 10, 2025 6219 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


Webinar on Monthly Updates on Direct & Indirect Taxes on 3rd December 2022

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...

December 2, 2022 32175 Views 2 comments Print

Procedural & technical issues on IDS, 2016 clarified

Income Tax : Clarification on certain procedural and technical issues regarding the Income Disclosure Scheme, 2016 (IDS) under section 119 of t...

July 13, 2019 1431 Views 0 comment Print

Section 195: 6 Suggestions made by ICAI for Rationalization of Provisions

Income Tax : Finance Act, 2012 extended the obligation to withhold taxes to non- residents irrespective of whether the non-resident has -...

January 18, 2018 6021 Views 0 comment Print

CA Certificate not required for certain remittances: Govt

Income Tax : Government has recently modified the Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account Transactions) Rules, 2000 and the Liberalized Re...

August 10, 2015 22510 Views 6 comments Print

Vodafone ruling effect – Exporters question TDS on foreign payment post

Income Tax : The Supreme Court judgement on Vodafone tax case seems to have opened a Pandora's box with exporters too expressing reservation on...

January 25, 2012 2229 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


No Specific Charge = No Penalty – ITAT Deletes 270A Penalty for Vague Notice Bonafide Claim

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...

May 4, 2026 246 Views 0 comment Print

No TDS on Foreign Agent Commission for Services Rendered Abroad; ITAT Deletes Section 40(a)(i) Disallowance

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that commission paid to foreign agents for services rendered outside India is not taxable in India. Consequently...

April 29, 2026 267 Views 0 comment Print

Application for NIL withholding tax rightly rejected since taxability matter pending before ITAT

Income Tax : Bombay High Court held that application for NIL withholding tax certificate rightly rejected since matter of taxability of fees fo...

April 24, 2026 243 Views 0 comment Print

No FTS on Project-Specific Design Services; ‘Make Available’ Test Not Met, No Disallowance u/s 40(a)(i)

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that consultancy payments for architectural services were not FTS since no technical knowledge was made availabl...

April 16, 2026 210 Views 0 comment Print

No TDS on Foreign Commission as Income Not Taxable in India: ITAT Rajkot

Income Tax : The Tribunal rejected the Revenue’s argument that taxpayers must seek AO determination under Section 195(2) in all cases. It hel...

April 10, 2026 369 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT notifies Changes in TDS Return Form 26Q and 27Q

Income Tax : CBDT notifies the Income-tax (Seventh Amendment) Rules, 2025, updating Forms 26Q and 27Q to include Section 194T on payments to fi...

March 27, 2025 13833 Views 0 comment Print

Reg. Application in Form 15E for section 195(2) & 195(7) certificates

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...

March 2, 2022 4485 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT notifies New Form 15E and rule 29BA

Income Tax : CBDT vide notification No. 18/2021-Income Tax, Dated: March 16, 2021 inserted new rule 29BA. Application for grant of certificate ...

March 16, 2021 33273 Views 1 comment Print

CBDT clarifies on Certificates for lower rate/nil TDS/TCS 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...

April 9, 2020 12051 Views 0 comment Print

Lower/nil rate of TDS/TCS applications to be disposed liberally by 27.04.2020

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...

April 3, 2020 5985 Views 1 comment Print


NO Section 195 TDS if amounts paid not give rise to any income taxable in India

June 14, 2021 1323 Views 0 comment Print

Autodesk Asia Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) Given the definition of royalties contained in Article 12 of the DTAAs mentioned in paragraph 41 of this judgment, it is clear that there is no obligation on the persons mentioned in section 195 of the Income Tax Act to deduct tax at source, as the distribution […]

Detailed Analysis of Section 195 along with latest case laws

May 16, 2021 14811 Views 0 comment Print

Any person responsible for paying to a non-resident, not being a company, or to a foreign company, shall deduct income-tax thereon at the rates in force is responsible to deduct tax u/s 195 of the act. Nature of Payment a) Any interest (not being interest referred to in section 194LB, 194LC and 194LD). b) Any […]

No section 195 TDS on payments by Airport Authority to Federal Aviation for technical assistance & cooperation

May 4, 2021 4212 Views 0 comment Print

Airports Authority of India Vs ITO(TDS) (ITAT Delhi) Conclusion: TDS under section 195 was not applicable on payments made by company to the Federal Aviation Administration, USA (FAA), for providing technical assistance to AAI by way of providing its personnel and meeting on ATFM requirements and assisting AAI in connection with ATFM by development of […]

Withholding Tax rate of 5% on payment of dividend to resident of Netherlands after applying MFN Clause

April 22, 2021 7590 Views 0 comment Print

Withholding tax rate of 5% is to be applied while making payment of dividend by Indian entity to its shareholder in Netherlands after applying the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) clause in the Tax Treaty between India and Netherlands.

Engineering Analysis… Any respite for Domestic trade?

March 25, 2021 4839 Views 0 comment Print

Objective Part – 1 – Impact on domestic trade The Author, in this article, discusses the impact of recent decision of Supreme Court [SC] in the case of Engineering Analysis on domestic laws and concludes that equalisation levy will be payable on import of computer software provided the conditions are fulfilled and some impact due […]

TDS not deductible on Reimbursement without any Profit Element

March 24, 2021 2952 Views 0 comment Print

BYK Asia Pacific Pte. Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Pune) On going through the documents/material as discussed above, it is evident that Seminar expenses, Training expenses, Printing expenses and Staff welfare expenses are amounts paid by the Indian BO to the Singapore HO, which satisfy the twin conditions of `reimbursement’ as discussed supra, viz., one-to-one direct […]

Section 195 TDS not deductible if Income not taxable in India

March 18, 2021 1614 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Force Motors Ltd. (ITAT Pune) During the First Appellate Proceedings before the Ld. CIT(Appeals), it was submitted by the assessee that payments were made to technical consultants from Japan, Germany and Italy. The assessee submitted that these consultants are not residents of India and further their stay in India was less than the […]

Application to AO in New Form 15E under Rule 29BA & Section 195

March 18, 2021 16644 Views 2 comments Print

CBDT issued notification No. 18/2021-Income Tax, Dated: March 16, 2021 & inserted a New Rule Rule 29BA. The Rule would be effective from 1 April 2021.

New Rule 29BA & Form 15E to Apply for Section 195 Certificate

March 17, 2021 18186 Views 3 comments Print

CBDT Notifies Rule 29BA And Form 15E To Apply for Certificate Under Section 195 W.E.F. April 1, 2021 Section 195 of the Act relates to levy of Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) on any sum chargeable to tax and which is paid to a non-resident, not being a company, or to a foreign company. Prior to the […]

TDS not deductible on Amounts paid to non-resident manufacturers for resale/use of computer software

March 17, 2021 2634 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Bangalore rules non-resident software payment not royalty. Section 195 not applicable. Full text and analysis of Altisource vs. ACIT case.

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