[2001] 119 TAXMAN 496 (MAD.)
Case Name : Skycell Communications Ltd. VS. Deputy Commissioner of Income-tax
Court : MAD.
Decision Date :23/02/2001
Case No.: Appeal No. 9946 of 1998, 9947 of 1998
Judges : R. Jayasimha Babu
Counsels : V. Ramachandran, K. Mani for the Appellant.Mrs. Chitra Venkataraman for the Respondent.
Corresponding Citation : [2001] 170 CTR 238 (MAD.) / [2001] 251 ITR 53 (MAD.)
Section 194J, read with section 9(1)(vii), Explanation 2, of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Deduction of tax at source - Fees for professional or technical services - Whether payments made to person engaged in business of providing cellular mobile telephone facility by subscribers, being firms and companies, are covered by definition of ‘fees for technical services’ in section 194J, read with Explanation 2 to section 9(1)(vii) and whether tax is required to be deducted at source on such payments by subscribers - Held, no