26 April 2011
Yes, It is mandatory from 1st April 2011.
As per Income tax act section 194C , Tds is not required to be deducted on payments made to transporter if Pan number has been provided to deductor .
Further as per section 197 of Income tax act ,Assessing Officer can issue a Nil rate certificate to parties under specified section on application on form 13 with prescribed details and if such parties produce "Nil " rate certificate to deductor , deductor is not required to deduct tds . so In both the cases tax deduction is Nil.
Third type of Nil transaction is "where amount paid is less than cut off amount given in respective section"
In all three case above , Tin-Nsdl has provided tags in etds return .
1.To incorporate Nil rate transporter entries in etds return by inserting a tag "T" in remarks in 26q 2.To incorporate Nil rate entries due to section 197 Tag "B" is to be shown in remarks column in 26q 3.Now Tin-NSDL has also provided a tag "Y" to incorporate entries of nil deduction where amount is less than cut-off amount.
Now the question is ,whether one should file return as suggested by tin -nsdl or there is legal Binding on us to report such entries.The answer is given below
As per Income tax act section 200 quarterly return is required to be filed where TDS has been deducted .Means if tds has not been deducted then no need to file the return .
But now Income Tax Rules 31AA has been amended to incorporate first two type of entries in quarterly returns from 01.04.2011.
As per new rules amended vide notification 16/2011 dated 29/03/2011
(b)in rule 31A, in sub-rule (4), after clause (iv),the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:-
“(v)furnish particulars of amount paid or credited on which tax was not deducted in view of the issue of certificate of no deduction of tax under section 197 by the Assessing Officer of the payee;
(vi) furnish particulars of amount paid or credited on which tax was not deducted in view of the compliance of provisions of sub-section (6) of section 194C by the payee.”
so after this amendment we have to report following two type of entries in quarterly return (26q) compulsory 1.Nil tds on payment to transporter 2.Nil tds due to nil certificates issued by AO u/s 197 to party But Act/ rules has not been amended to incorporate third type of entries .(Nil tds due to payment less than cut off amount)
There are chances in few cases that there is no payment /TDS under specific section but there are entries to be reported in above two categories . In that cases we have to create Zero value challan in etds return and have to shown deductee details against that challan
Nil ,Etds can be easily prepared with Free etds software /Paid software .For this you have to create a NIL amount challan and leave blank the deductee details.and How to create Nil challan detail is given below.
But before you reading the detail ,you may be interested in ,whether NIL etds statement is Mandatory to file . The answer is no ,It is not mandatory .(read details here) .
However as you may know that now,we have to report non deduction of transporter entries in Etds statement .If person has deposited a challan related to section 194C then it is easy to enter transporter details in it ,However if no challan is there then he has to add a nil value challan in etds return u/s 194C for purely for transporter entries. Same is the case where firms has non deduction certificate under various section . In all such cases we have to fill a NIl value challan . Details to create NIL value challan is given below.
Field Value Value Serial No. (Column no. 401) 1 Section Code(Section Relevant to the Nature of Payment) From DropDown Menu Amount Fields i.e. TDS,Surcharge,Education Cess,Interest and Others(Column no. 403 to 407) 0.00 (Zero) Cheque / DD number (Column no 409) Blank Date on which tax deposited (Column no. 411) last day of respective quarter e.g. for quarter 4 31/03/2006 Transfer voucher / Challan serial No. (Column no. 412) Blank Whether TDS Deposited by Book Entry ?(Yes)/(No) (Column no.413) Blank Interest Rs 0.00 (Zero) Others Rs 0.00 (Zero)
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