27 January 2015
My client is ISO 9000 certification company and issue certificates on behalf of non resident company( turkey) and pays per certificate fees to them. we at present deducting TDS as per applicable DTA i.e 15%.
Now department is asking 20% because there is no PAN for the non resident company.
28 January 2015
Yes, in my client's case the payment made to the non resident(turkey) company is covered by DTAA with turkey and rate for the same is 15% and we have deducted accordingly.
In this situation I dont think PAN is required and department is not justified in asking 5% diff of TDS.