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TDS WRITTEN OFF AS BED DEBTS

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Jay Mittal

1 Points Posted on 03 January 2022

WHETHER TDS WHICH WAS DEDUCTED IN EARLIER YEARS(A.Y. 2008-09) NOT RECEIVED TILL 31.03.2021, CAN BE WRITTEN OFF AS BED DEBTS IN F.Y. 2021?

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This discussion addresses whether Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) from previous financial years, which remains unreceived, can be treated as a bad debt. The consensus is that TDS cannot be directly written off as a bad debt. Instead, it should first be reversed and recorded as a receivable from the customer before being written off.

Tanuj Chandra Saxenaa

Company Secretary

7085 Points Posted on 03 January 2022

No it cannot be Charged as an Bad Debts

CA Raj Doshi

Practising CA

8954 Points Posted on 04 January 2022

If you first reverse the tds back into sundry debtors as Receivable from customer.. and then you can write it off. This is a better way to get it done.