Supreme Court of India

Commnr. of Income Tax, Bangalore and Anr. v. M/s. Century Building Industries Pvt. Ltd.

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Reported as [2007] 8 S.C.R. 959
Bench S.H. Kapadia and B. Sudershan Reddy JJ.
Decided 10 August 2007

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that in the first instance over the years the Department should have not D allowed non-deduction of TDS by the company and nothing prevented the A.O. from raising the objection to such practice.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

t Income Tax Act, 1961: ss. 194- , 201 and 20l(JA)-Tax deductible at source-On interest- c Liability to deduct-Directors of assessee-Company taking loans from creditors in the name of Company-Repayment of loan amount or interest thereon also routed through assessee-company-TDS as required u!s 194A(l) not deducted at source by assessee-company on interest payments-Company declared as assessee-in-default and interest imposed u/s 201(1A)-Held: Whenever interest is credited to the account of payee the payer has to deduct the TDS-Revenue was right in invoking provisions of ss. 201 and 20l(JA) i

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