Section 194N of Income Tax Act
In order to discourage cash transactions and move towards a cashless economy, a new Section 194N was inserted under Income-tax Act with effect from September 1, 2019, to provide for deduction of tax on cash withdrawals made by any person from his bank or post-office account..‘Section 194N – TDS on cash withdrawals over and above Rs 1 crore’ was introduced through the Finance Bill, 2019. It is applicable on more than Rs 1 crore cash withdrawals during a financial year and is applied to the withdrawal of all the sums of money or an aggregate of sums from a particular payer in a financial year. The section serves the objective of eliminating large cash withdrawals from bank accounts and phasing out black money from India. Who will deduct TDS u/s194N? An individual or payer making the payment with cash will have to deduct TDS under Section 194N of the ITR filing Act. The list of such persons are as follows: → a banking company to which the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949) ...