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Income Tax : The C&AG’s audits ensure proper assessment, collection, and allocation of direct taxes, identifying evasion risks and improving ...
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Income Tax : The notification requires payers to generate UINs and file quarterly details of declarations even where no tax is deducted. It enh...
Income Tax : The issue involved delay in issuing TDS certificates due to technical issues. The Board extended the deadline to provide relief. T...
Goods and Services Tax : The advisory explains that registrations will be automatically suspended if bank account details are not furnished within 30 days....
A new section 194M is proposed to be inserted in the Income Tax Act by the Budget 2019 that provides levy of TDS @ 5% on the sum or aggregate of sums, paid or credited in a year on account of contractual work or professional fees by an Individual or Hindu undivided family, not required […]
When the commission paid to the non-resident agents was neither received or deemed to be received in India nor accrued or was deemed to accrue in India, no income was chargeable to tax under the provisions of the Act. When the payment made by assessee to the overseas agent for services rendered abroad was not income chargeable to tax in India, there was no obligation cast upon assessee to deduct tax at source under section 195 and consequently, the provisions of section 40(a)(ia) would not be attracted.
Since assessee had deducted the TDS, but not remitted to Government account and for that he had not given any satisfactory explanation either before AO or before CIT(A), therefore, penalty under section 271C was justified.
Provisions of tax deduction at source (TDS) with regard to payment of any other sum to a non-resident is covered under section 195 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 which are explained hereunder.
The Budget introduced new section 194M covering TDS applicability on payment done to resident contractors, commission / brokerage and professionals. Let us analyze what the newly introduced section 194M has to say, in the present article.
Since the title in goods passed from foreign suppliers to assessee outside India at the port of shipment and AO failed to show as to how income of foreign parties was chargeable to tax in India, therefore, no income had accrued to foreign parties in India in terms of section 5 and section 9, therefore, section 195 did not apply to payments.
While introducing the new applicability of TDS levy on cash withdrawals under newly inserted Section 194N, the Finance Minister Shri Nirmala Sitharam in her budget speech elaborated that the Government has taken a number of initiatives for promotion of the digital payments and less cash economy. She stated that to promote the digital payment and […]
How to download Consolidation and Justification file of TDS return through Traces: TDS defaults on traces comes when if we have done mistake in filing return like short payment, short deduction, late filing penalty, late correction interest, & other interest. We can check default status after some day of filing the TDS return on TRACES […]
In order to boost the foreign investment, the Government inserted Section 194LD of the Income Tax Act, 1961 and made effective from 1st June 2013. Section 194LD provided tax deduction at lower rate for interest income earned by a Foreign Institutional Investor or a Qualified Foreign Investor from the government securities or specified bonds. The […]
With effect from 1st July 2012, section 194LC was incorporated into the Income Tax Act, 1961. The section deals with TDS deduction on income by way of interest from an Indian Company or a business trust and the provisions relating to the same has been explained in the current article. Basic applicability of Section 194LC […]
