TDS on Mobile Bills & Telephone Bills.

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28 June 2010 I just want to know why we don't deduct TDS on Mobile Bills & Telephone Bills.If only, because it is not covered under TDS provision then why it is not in the TDS provision.there is a rental on telephone bills like monthly rental.

28 June 2010 There is a case law for the same.

Telephone services are not covered - When a person decides to subscribe to a cellular telephone service in order to have the facility of being able to communicate with others, he does not contract to receive a technical service. What he does agree is to pay for the use of the airtime for which he pays a charge. The fact that the telephone service provider has installed sophisti­cated technical equipment in the exchange to ensure connectivity to its subscriber does not on that score make it provision of a technical service to the subscriber. The subscriber is not con­cerned with the complexity of the equipment installed in the exchange, or the location of the base station. All that he wants is the facility of using the telephone when he wishes so, and being able to get connected to the person at the number to which he desires to be connected. What applies to cellular mobile tele­phone is also applicable to fixed telephone service. Neither service can be regarded as ‘technical service’ for the purpose of section 194J of the Act - Skycell Communications Ltd. v. Dy. CIT [2001] 251 ITR 53 (Mad.).


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