81 Points
Joined February 2018
1) Single Bank (all branches including) will not deduct TDS on total FD interest (from multiple FD's )of Rs 50000. (For FY2019-20)
2) SB interest will be excluded from TDS
3) If your total income from all sources is going to exceed Rs 5 lakhs , dont give 15H . Assuming 7.5% on senior FD interest, FD's above 7 lakhs/per bank will cross the Rs 50k interest threshhold & the bank will deduct 10% TDS on the "total interest income" earned (not above 50k only ).
4)so keep less than Rs 7 lakh total FD in a single bank . 15H declaration is valid only for up to 5 lakh annual income. you can not give false declaration. nowadays they are coming down even on small infarction.
5) watch out for bank consolidation for FY2020-21. 3 banks merge to form a single bank .under the same PAN your interest TDS exemption will easily cross RS 50k TDS threshold under a single PAN. if your banks merge , keep one SB account with the merged entity & close the sb/fd accounts of the acquired banks (that is no need to keep 2 or 3 accounts with different branches of the same merged entity . Open in a new bank if you want to distribute your FD total amount.