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Consideration paid by assessee for services rendered by non-resident were purely in the nature of procurement services and could not be characterized as ‘managerial’, ‘technical’ or ‘consultancy’ services and thus, could not be classified as fee for technical services and accordingly, not liable for deduction of tax at source under section 195.
This Article give the snapshot of the newly inserted sections i.e. Section 194M and Section 194N in the Finance Act (No. 2), 2019. Also covers Income Tax Notification No. 98/2019 dated 18th November 2019 issued by CBDT.
Services rendered by foreign concern for introducing a client did not make-available any technical knowledge, experience, skill, know-how or processes to assessee, therefore, related payment did not fall within the realm of “Fees for included services” as envisaged in Article 12 of the Indo-US, DTAA and payment made to foreign concern constituted its business profits within the meaning of Article 7 Indo-USA DTAA, and in the absence of any Permanent Establishment of the said foreign concern in India no taxability arose and, therefore, assessee was not liable to withhold tax under section 195.
Assessee in instant case had purchased three properties on three different dates. This indicated that assessee had purchased the land on piece meal basis. Since value mentioned in each sale deed was less than Rs. 50 lakhs, therefore, section 194-IA would not be applicable to assessee merely because the seller and Khasra number of the three properties was same.
The issue under consideration is whether TDS u/s 194J will be applicable on payments made by TPA to hospitals on behalf of insurance companies for settling medical or insurance claims?
The CBDT has notified that any sum deducted under section 194M shall be paid to the credit of the Central Government within a period of thirty days from the end of the month in which the deduction is made and shall be accompanied by a challan-cum-statement in Form No. 26QD. Every person responsible for deduction […]
OVERVIEW OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO TAX DEDUCTED AT SOURCE UNDER GST TDS UNDER GST COMES INTO FORCE FROM 1ST OCTOBER, 2018 ♦ Section 51 governing tax deduction at source has come into force w.e.f 1st October, 2018. ♦ All the DDOs who are required to make payment to suppliers against procurement of taxable goods /services or both above […]
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her maiden budget speech announced some income tax-related changes which will come into effect from September 1, 2019. Cash withdrawals exceeding INR 1 crore in aggregate in a year from finance institutions will attract TDS while in case of property transactions, the definition of immovable property has been broadened […]
Where assessee had hired the services for various works such as storage of data, scanning of documents, processing charges, call center operations, etc. and the same were basically clerical services of repetitive nature of work therefore, work outsourced was in the nature of clerical work and was rightly deducted under section 194C.
