TDS / TCS (Income Tax) – Information & Resource Bank
Section 115BAC has been inserted in the Finance Act 2020 in the recent budget. This allows the option to Individuals & HUF to avail concessional rate of income tax with certain conditions pertaining to claiming deductions & other concessions. The other existing option will also continue. This comes into effect from April 2020 (i.e. FY:2020-21…
From Financial Year 2013-14 (AY: 2014-15), while preparing the employee details to file TDS Returns (Form 24Q) in the 4th quarter (Jan-Mar), a provision has been made to separate out the salary earnings of the current and previous employer. This is applicable in case the employee has earned from more than one employer during the…
The Finance Act, 2015 had introduced a new section 192(2D) of the Income-tax Act, wherein the employer was obliged to collect the necessary evidence or proof in Form 12BB to allow any claim for any deduction and/or tax saving investments. One of the requirements in Form 12BB for claiming the interest on house property is…
As part of the initiative in improving liquidity owing to the COVID crisis, it has been announced that TDS / TCS rates for non-salary payments will be reduced by 25% across the board. This would be for all payments from 14th May 2020 to 31st March 2021. The revised TDS / TCS chart is as under: TDS…
On popular demand, we are pleased to announce the release of TDSMAN (FY: 2020-21). Now you can prepare TDS Returns for Q4 of FY: 2019-20 and all quarters of the next FY: 2020-21: It covers: ✔ All TDS Returns for FY: 2020-21 ✔ All TDS Returns for FY: 2019-20 ✔ Pending TDS Returns of earlier…
Given below are some dos and don’ts for the filing of TDS returns: Dos Ensure that TDS return is filed with the same TAN against which TDS payment has been made. Ensure that correct challan particulars including CIN and amount is mentioned. Correct PAN of the deductee is mentioned. Correct section is quoted against each…
TRACES introduced NIL TDS Statement/Declaration of TDS from the FY 2014-15. This is applicable for Deductors who did not deduct any tax during the relevant quarter. What is the benefit of filing a Nil TDS Statement? The benefit of this facility is that instead of filing nil TDS/TCS Statement for a particular quarter/period, one just needs…
Following are some useful guidelines to avoid common mistakes, while submitting TDS Statements and you are requested to go through the following in detail. Incorrect reporting of 197 Certificates: Please refer to the following guidelines for correct reporting of 197 Certificates: The Certificate Number should be of 10 digits with Alpha-numeric structure. Please refer to…
Steps for filing TDS/ TCS Return online: Step – I The data structure (file format) in which the e-TDS / e-TCS return is to be prepared has been notified in https://www.tin-nsdl.com/services/etds-etcs/etds-rpu.html Step – II e-TDS/e-TCS return in accordance with the file formats is to be prepared in clean text ASCII format with ‘txt’ as filename…
As part of the initiative in improving liquidity owing to the COVID crisis, it has been announced that TDS / TCS rates for non-salary payments will be reduced by 25% across the board. This would be for all payments from 14th May 2020 to 31st March 2021. The revised TDS / TCS chart is as under: TDS…