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Originally posted by : A K Jain |
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Please refer to my query regarding applicability of tax on interest earned thru saving & RD a/cs.Two same replies were received from a Private Bank stating that it is non taxable. Then again I wrote them to confirm from their CA otherwise I will refer to Income Tax deptt. Their third reply states that
"As confirmation received and as informed to you in earlier mail, interest earned through savings account and Recurring Deposit (RD) account is exempted for tax."
How to deal with these fellows who are misleading the customers? |
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they are neither making fool nor misleading anybody,
as a depositor / account holder you are asking your tax query to banker, and as per their banking incometax they are not eligible to deduct incometax on RD/SB, so their reply is 100% correct.
they are neither aware of your taxable income, nor the ITR filing status of yourself, how they can comment on the issues which is not in their juridiction, but the query was related to "banks role of incometax ( deduction and payment above the exemption limit) on the deposits in various schemes, and they have replied correct that they are not eligible to deal with SB/RD, irts exempted from incometax on banking operations.
how they can ascertain the taxability? say you have only savings bank interest of 5 Lacs, and no other income at all, still they can not deduct, but you will get 1.6 ( 1.8L for this year) exemption automatic for your threshold limit. balance only is available for taxation as per your criteria,
asking the right question at wrong place and then pointing fingers on them is not a good practice.