Tds will deduct or not?

ANKUSH (Article Trainee) (322 Points)

14 September 2017  
one of my uncle is running a guest house under his proprietorship concern.They have made a payment for one contractor of RS one lakh without deduction of TDS in F.Y 2016-17. Auditor claims that the TDS should be deducted on such payment.
Their turnover for Fy 2015-16 was 90 lakhs.

whether they required to deduct TDS on such payment???