Section 194E - Payments to non-resident sportsmen or sports associations - Income-tax Act, 1961

1 [Payments to non-resident sportsmen or sports associations. 194E. Where any income referred to in section 115BBA is payable to a non- resident sportsman (including an athlete), 2 [ or an entertainer ] , who is not a citizen of India or a non-resident sports association or institution, the person responsible for making the payment shall, at the time of credit of such income to the account of the payee or at the time of payment thereof in cash or by issue of a cheque or draft or by any other mode, whichever is earlier, deduct income-tax thereon at the rate of 3 [ twenty per cent ] . ] -------------------- Notes :- 1. Inserted by the Direct Tax Laws (Second Amendment) Act, 1989, w.e.f. 1-11-1989. Earlier section 194E, as inserted by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 1987, w.e.f. 1-4-1988, was omitted by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 1989, with retrospective effect from the same date. 2. Inserted vide Finance Act, 2012, w.e.f. 01-07-2012. 3. Substituted vide Finance Act, 2012, w.e.f. 01-07-2012., before it was read as:- "ten per cent"