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Circular No. 22 of 2017 F.No.370142/10/2017-TPL Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue (Central Board of Direct Taxes) (TPL Division) *** Dated 03rd July, 2017 Clarifications in respect of section 269ST of the Income-tax Act, 1961 With a view to promote digital economy and create a disincentive against cash economy, a new section […]
Central Government hereby specifies that the provision of section 269ST shall not apply to the following, namely: (a) receipt by a business correspondent on behalf of a banking company or co-operative bank, in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India;
The Finance Bill, 2017 proposed an insertion of Section 271J in the Income-tax Act, 1961. Considering the undue hardships to be caused to our members, the ICAI had made various representations to the Ministry of Finance, Revenue Secretary and CBDT
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In India, the quantum of domestic black money is huge which adversely affects the revenue of the Government creating a resource crunch for its various welfare programmes. Black money is generally transacted in cash and large amount of unaccounted wealth is store and used in form of cash.
Government has introduced new section 269ST limiting cash transactions above Rs. 2 lakhs. There are no exceptions to this. Even gift received in cash form close relatives above Rs. 2 lakhs come under the ambit of this section. At present there are also certain other provisions which have either a cap or a complete ban on cash transactions.
Section 269SST includes within its sweep all types of cash receipts from any person of whatever nature whether as donations or gifts or compensation, encashment of securities/instruments etc. A penalty equal to the amount of such receipt shall be imposed u/s 271D.
It has also been decided that the restriction on cash transaction under section 269ST shall not apply to withdrawal of cash from a bank, cooperative bank or a post office savings bank.
CBDT notified that Section 269ST not applies to cash receipt from banking company, post office savings bank or co-operative bank.
PROVISION OF SECTION 269ST No person shall receive an amount of two lakh rupees or more (a) in aggregate from a person in a day; or (b) in respect of a single transaction; or (c) in respect of transactions relating to one event or occasion from a person, otherwise than by an account payee cheque or an account payee bank draft or use of electronic clearing system through a bank account.
