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Proposal on 20% TDS

What is this proposal about 20 per cent TDS? I don’t understand it. Please clarify.

Shobana Malinga, Mangalore

It is like this. If a person from whose income-tax is required to be deducted at source does not have a permanent account number (PAN), he would have to suffer a penal TDS of 20 per cent even though the normal rate may be much lower. It is a good move, as it will compel everyone earning income susceptible to TDS to have a PAN card. There is an anomaly though. Section 139A should have been simultaneously amended to mandate obtainment of PAN by everyone whose income is subject to TDS whether he or she has taxable income or not.

S. MURLIDHARAN

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