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CBDT notifies exemption under section 206C(1G) of the Income tax Act, 1961

CBDT

CBDT

The Central Government hereby notifies that the provisions of sub-section (1G) of section 206C shall not apply to an individual who is not a resident in India in terms of clause (1) and clause (1A) of section 6 of the Act, and who is visiting India.

 

[206-C. Profits and gains from the business of trading in alcoholic liquor, forest produce, scrap, etc.

(1-G) Every person,—

(a) being an authorised dealer, who receives an amount, for remittance out of India from a buyer, being a person remitting such amount out of India under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme of the Reserve Bank of India;

(b) being a seller of an overseas tour programme package, who receives any amount from a buyer, being the person who purchases such package,

shall, at the time of debiting the amount payable by the buyer or at the time of receipt of such amount from the said buyer, by any mode, whichever is earlier, collect from the buyer, a sum equal to five per cent. of such amount as income-tax.

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