TDS ON INTEREST PAID TO NRI

yes it should otberwise u cant claim dat interest as an expenditure

 Thanks for your reply

 TDS SHOULD BE DEDECTED EVEN THOUGH THE PAYMENT IS made to resident individual. But for this purpose the Interest Paying party should be liable to Income tax Audit u/s 1961.

The prescribed limit is Rs. 10,000 in case of Bank & Rs. 5000 for Others.

TDS to Non Resident when paid to their NRO account in Indian Rupees is deductible u/s 194A only. There are restrictions imposed under FEMA for how much you can borrow from an NRI like this. If you go backwards about maybe 1 - 1.5 months, there was a similar posting in which a reply was given with relevant section of FEMA. The enquiry was similar to yours. Just hunt. The condition is both interest and the principal cannot be repatriated abroad.

Dear Nagamani,

I assume your company has accepted deposit from NRI in persuance of Schedule 7 read with regulation 7(2) of Foreign Exchange Management (Deposit) Regulation 2000.

Section 194 of IT Act comes to role only in case depositor is Resident by virtue of Section 6 of IT Act.

In case depositor is non-resident, Section 195 read with section 90 comes to the picture and tax is to be deducted as per rate in force or rate as per DTAA agreement.

In view of this, your company is require to deduct TDS at the rate of 30.9% or if NRI is eligible to claim DTAA benefi you may collect necessary documents from him before allowing such DTAA concesional rate.

You may also note following provision of FEM (Deposit) Regulation 2000;

1) Maximum deposit period shall be 3 years.

2) Amount raised through such deposits shall not be applied for re-lending or or for undertaking agricultural/plantation activities or real estate business or for investing in any other concern or firm or company engaged in or proposing to engage in agricultural/plantation activities or real estate business.

3) Amount of Deposits shall not be allowed to repatriate outside India.

Further, Foreign Exchange Management (Remittance of Asset) Regulation 2000 has given general permission to NRIs/PIO for remittance of funds held in NRO Account upto USD 1 Million per financial year subject to certain documentation requirement. The above amount shall be eligible for repatriation under above regulation/scheme.

Regards

Juzer

sir we are developer, a NRI has invested his money in our project under Assured return scheme, how we deduct TDS from Interest, which is to be paid to the NRI investor. please give suggestion.