Govt to levy 2% TDS on cash withdrawal over Rs 1 cr from multiple accounts
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget on July 5, had proposed 2 per cent tax deduction at source (TDS) on Rs 1 crore cash withdrawal from "an account" to discourage high-value withdrawals.
As people holding multiple accounts could have misused the proposal, the government amended the Finance Bill, 2019, to state that TDS will be charged if aggregate withdrawal from "one or more accounts" of a person exceeds Rs 1 crore.
The amendment, along with 28 others, were approved by a voice vote by the Lok Sabha, which passed the Finance Bill 2019.
The Finance Bill, 2019, said any bank or a co-operative society engaged in carrying on the business of banking; or post office, which is responsible for paying any sum, in cash, in excess of Rs one crore during the previous year, to any person from "an account" maintained by the recipient with it shall, at the time of payment of such sum, deduct an amount equal to 2 per cent of sum exceeding Rs 1 crore, as income-tax.
The Finance Bill amendment replaced "an account" to "one or more accounts".
Amendments also clarified that the total TDS paid on cash withdrawal beyond Rs 1 crore will be adjusted against the total tax dues from the taxpayer and would not be constituted as income in hands of the taxpayer. This provision would come into effect from September 1, 2019.
"I want to assure the members that if there are people who are taxpaying citizens, who have withdrawn like this, this TDS will be adjusted against the total tax dues," said Sitharaman.
"So, it is not over and above what he is expected to pay as tax, but it is going to be reconciled with the total tax claims which is going to be laid on this individual. So, it is not something which is running parallel to it," Sitharaman said while replying in the debate on Finance Bill. #casansaar (Source - PTI, Business Standard)
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