Budget 2016 – Enabling of Filing of Form 15G/15H for rental payments

Budget 2016 – Enabling of Filing of Form 15G/15H for rental payments

The provision of sub-section 194-I of the Act, inter alia, provides for tax deduction at source (TDS) for payments in the nature of rent beyond a threshold limit. The existing provisions provide threshold of Rs. 1,80,000 per financial year for deduction of tax under this section. In spite of providing higher threshold for deduction tax under this section, there may be cases where the tax payable on recipient’s total income, including rental payments , will be nil. The existing provisions of section 197A of the Income-tax Act, inter alia provide that tax shall not be deducted, if the recipient of certain payments on which tax is deductible furnishes to the payer a self- declaration in prescribed Form.No. 15G/15H declaring that the tax on his estimated total income of the relevant previous year would be nil. In order to reduce compliance burden in such cases, it is proposed to amend the provisions of section 197A for making the recipients of payments referred to in section 194-I also eligible for filing self-declaration in Form no 15G/15H for non-deduction of tax at source in accordance with the provisions of section 197A.

This amendment will take effect from 1st June, 2016.

Clause 84 of Finance Bill 2016

Clause 84 of the Bill seeks to amend section 1 97A of the Income-tax Act relating to no deduction to be made in certain cases.

Sub-sections (1A) and (1C) of the aforesaid section provide that no deduction of tax shall be made under the sections referred to in the said sub-sections, if the individuals referred to in the said sub­sections furnish to the persons responsible for paying any income of the nature referred to in specified sections, a declaration in writing in duplicate in the prescribed form and verified in the prescribed manner to the effect that the tax on his estimated total income of the previous year in which such income is to be included in computing his total income will be nil.

It is proposed to amend the said sub-sections to give reference of section 194-I therein so as to provide that payments in the nature of rent may be allowed to be received without deduction of tax.

This amendment will take effect from 1st June, 2016.

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