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NO TAX DEDUCTION IN CERTAIN CASES [SECTION 197A] | AY 2019-20 onwards

No deduction of tax on dividends and NSS payments [Sub-section (1)] This section enables an individual, who is resident in India and whose estimated total income of the previous year is less than the basic exemption limit, to receive dividends and any sum out of National Savings Scheme Acco... Click to read full article

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Certificate For Deduction OF Tax At a Lower Rate [Section 197] | AY 2019-20 onwards

Applicability This section applies where, in the case of any income of any person or sum payable to any person, income-tax is required to be deducted at the time of credit or payment, as the case may be at the rates in force as per the provisions of sections  - Salary (Section 192) ... Click to read full article

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TDS on Interest or dividend or other sums payable to Government, Reserve Bank or certain corporations [Section 196] | AY 2019-20 onwards

No deduction of tax shall be made by any person from any sums payable to - the Government; or the Reserve Bank of India; or a corporation established by or under a Central Act, which is, under any law for the time being in force, exempt from income-tax on its income; or a Mutual... Click to read full article

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Non-applicability of TDS provisions on payments made to Corporations whose income is exempt under section 10(26BBB) [Circular No.7/2015, dated 23-04-2015]

The CBDT had earlier issued Circular No.4/2002 dated 16.07.2002 which laid down that there would be no requirement for tax deduction at source in respect of payments made to such entities, whose income is unconditionally exempt under section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and who are statutorily ... Click to read full article

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TDS on other sums (payable to non-residents) [Section 195] | AY 2019-20 onwards

Applicability Any person responsible for paying interest (other than interest referred to in section 194LB or section 194LC or section 194LD) or any other sum chargeable to tax (other than salaries) to a non-corporate non-resident or to a foreign company is liable to deduct tax at source at th... Click to read full article

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TDS on Interest on Government securities or rupee-denominated bonds of an Indian company payable to a Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) or a Qualified Foreign Investor (QFI) [Section 194LD] | AY 2019-20 onwards

Applicability and Rate of TDS Section 194LD provides that any income by way of interest payable during the period between 1.6.2013 and 30.6.2020 in respect of investment made by an FII or QFI in a rupee denominated bond of an Indian company or a Government security, shall be subject to tax ded... Click to read full article

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TDS on income by way of interest from an Indian company [Section 194LC] | AY 2019-20 onwards

Concessional rate of tax on interest on foreign currency borrowings by an Indian company or business trust Interest paid by an Indian company or business trust to a foreign company or a non-corporate non-resident in respect of borrowing made in foreign currency from sources outside India betwe... Click to read full article

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TDS on Income by way of interest from Infrastructure Debt Fund [Section 194LB] | AY 2019-20 onwards

Special rate of tax on interest received by non-residents from notified infrastructure debt funds Interest income received by a non-corporate non-resident or a foreign company from notified infrastructure debt funds set up in accordance with the prescribed guidelines would be subject to tax at... Click to read full article

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TDS on payment of compensation on acquisition of certain immovable property [Section 194LA] | AY 2019-20 onwards

Applicability Section 194LA provides for deduction of tax at source by a person responsible for paying to a resident any sum in the nature of – compensation or the enhanced compensation or the consideration or the enhanced consideration on account of compulsory acquisition, ... Click to read full article

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TDS on fees for professional or technical services [Section 194J] | AY 2019-20 onwards

Applicability and Rate of TDS Every person, who is responsible for paying to a resident any sum by way of – fees for professional services; or fees for technical services; or any remuneration or fees or commission, by whatever name called, other than those on which tax is deduc... Click to read full article

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TDS on payment under specified agreement [Section 194-IC] | 2019-20 onwards

Applicability and Rate This section casts responsibility on any person responsible for paying to a resident any sum by way of consideration, not being consideration in kind, under a specified agreement under section 45(5A), to deduct income-tax at the rate of 10% . Time of deduction This... Click to read full article

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TDS on payment of rent by certain individuals or Hindu undivided family [Section194-IB] | AY 2019-20 onwards

Applicability and Rate of TDS Section 194-IB requires any person, being an individual or a HUF, other than those individual or HUF whose total sales, gross receipts or turnover from the business or profession carried on by him exceed the monetary limits of  Rs 1 crore and  Rs 50 lakh... Click to read full article

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