NO TDS ON CERTAIN PAYMENTS
(Section – 393, Income-Tax Act, 2025)
[With effect from 1st April, 2026]
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Provisions for tax deduction at source |
Condition for no deduction on income or sum |
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Commission or Brokerage referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 1(ii)]. |
Commission or brokerage payable by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited or Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited to their public call office franchisees. |
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Rent referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 2(ii)]. |
Income by way of rent credited or paid to a business trust, being a real estate investment trust, in respect of any real estate asset, referred to in Schedule V (Table: Sl. No. 4), owned directly by such business trust. |
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Compensation on acquisition of certain immovable property referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 3(iii)]. |
Income by way of any award or agreement which has been exempted from levy of income-tax under section 96 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (30 of 2013). |
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Income in respect of units referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 4(i)]. |
If income is of the nature of capital gain. |
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Income from units of a business trust referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 4(ii)]. |
Income of the nature referred to in Schedule V [Table: Sl. No. 3.B(b)], if the special purpose vehicle referred to in the said serial number has not exercised the option under section 200. |
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Interest on securities referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 5(i)]. |
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Interest other than interest on securities referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 5(ii) and 5(iii)]. |
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Payments to contractors referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 6(i)]. |
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Fees for professional or technical services referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 6(iii)]. |
Where such sum is credited or paid by an individual or a Hindu undivided family exclusively for personal purposes of such individual or any member of Hindu undivided family. |
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Dividend referred to in section 393(1) (Table: Sl. No. 7). |
Dividend income credited or paid to—
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Payment by e-commerce operator to e-commerce participant referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 8(v)]. |
Where the amount is credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid during the tax year to the account of an e-commerce participant, which is—
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Payment on transfer of virtual digital asset referred to in section 393(1) [Table: Sl. No. 8(vi)]. |
Where value or aggregate value of such consideration during the tax year does not exceed—
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Income from units of a business trust referred to in section 393(2) (Table: Sl. No. 6). |
Income of the nature referred to in Schedule V [Table: Sl. No. 3.B(b)], if the special purpose vehicle referred to in the said clause has not exercised the option under section 200. |
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Income in respect of units of investment fund referred to in section 393(2) (Table: Sl. No. 8). |
Income that is not chargeable to tax under the provisions of this Act. |
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Income in respect of units of non-residents referred to in section 393(2) (Table: Sl. No. 10). |
Income payable in respect of units of the Unit Trust of India to a non-resident Indian or a non-resident Hindu undivided family, subject to prescribed conditions. |
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Income of Foreign Institutional Investors from securities referred to in section 393(2) (Table: Sl. No. 15). |
Income, by way of capital gains arising from the transfer of securities referred to in section 210, if payable to a Foreign Institutional Investor. |
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| 17. |
Income of Specified Fund from securities referred to in section 393(2) (Table: Sl. No. 16). |
Income is exempt as per Schedule VI (Table: Sl. Nos. 1 to 4). |
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Payment of certain amounts in cash referred to in section 393(3) (Table: Sl. No. 5). |
Payment made to—
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Payment in respect of deposits under the National Savings Scheme, etc., referred to in section 393(3) (Table: Sl. No. 6). |
Payment made to the heirs of an assessee. |
(5) Irrespective of anything contained in this Chapter, the tax shall not be deducted by any person from any amount payable to—
| (a) | the Government; or |
| (b) | the Reserve Bank of India; or |
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a corporation established by or under a Central Act which is, under any law in force, exempt from income-tax on its income; or |
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a Mutual fund as specified at Schedule VII (Table: Sl. No. 20 or 21), where such amount is payable to it by way of— |
| (a) | interest; or |
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dividend in respect of any securities or shares owned by it or in which it has full beneficial interest; or |
| (c) | any other income accruing or arising to it. |
(6) The deduction of tax shall not be made under provisions referred to in column C of the Table below, in the case of a person as specified in column B, if such person furnishes to the person responsible for paying any income or sum of the nature referred to in such provisions, a written declaration in duplicate in such form and manner as may be prescribed that the tax on such person’s estimated total income of the tax year in which such income or sum is to be included in computing his total income shall be nil.
DECLARATION FOR NO DEDUCTION AT SOURCE
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An individual being a resident. |
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Any person not being a company or a firm or an individual covered in Sl. No. (1). |
Sl. No. (1).C(a) to (f). |
Note.—The provisions of this sub-section shall not apply in case of a person referred to in column B of the Table, other than an individual being a resident who is of the age of sixty years or more at any time during the tax year, if the aggregate of amounts of any income or sum of the nature referred to in provision mentioned in column C of this Table, is credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid during the relevant tax year in which such income or sum is to be included, exceeds the maximum amount not chargeable to tax.
(7) The person responsible for paying any income or sum of the nature referred in sub-section (6) shall deliver or cause to be delivered, one copy of the declaration referred therein, received from the person to the Principal Chief Commissioner or Chief Commissioner or Principal Commissioner or Commissioner, on or before the seventh day of the month following the month in which the declaration is furnished to him.
(8) Irrespective of anything contained in sub-section (6), the deduction of tax shall not be made from the interest paid by an Offshore Banking Unit on borrowing from or deposit made on or after 1st April, 2005, by a non-resident or a person not ordinarily resident in India.
(9) Irrespective of anything contained in this Chapter, the deduction of tax shall not be made from any payment to a person for, or on behalf of, the New Pension System Trust referred to in Schedule VII (Table: Sl. No. 41).
(10) In a case other than that referred to in section 392(2)(a), where under an agreement or an arrangement, if the tax chargeable on any income of the recipient referred to in this Chapter is to be borne by the payer, then, for the purposes of deduction of tax, the income shall be increased to an amount which after deduction of tax as per provisions of this Chapter becomes equal to the net amount payable under such agreement or arrangement.
(11) The credit of any income or sum to any account, whether called “suspense account” or by any other name, in the books of account of the person liable to pay such income or sum, shall be deemed to be the credit of such income or sum to the account of the payee and the provisions of this Chapter shall apply accordingly.








