Section 57 - Insertion of new section 206AB. - Finance Act, 2021

Insertion of new section 206AB. 57. After section 206AA of the Income-tax Act, the following section shall be inserted with effect from the 1st day of July, 2021, namely: Special provision for deduction of tax at source for non-filers of income-tax return. 206AB. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, where tax is required to be deducted at source under the provisions of Chapter XVIIB, other than sections 192, 192A, 194B, 194BB, 194LBC or 194N on any sum or income or amount paid, or payable or credited, by a person (hereafter referred to as deductee) to a specified person, the tax shall be deducted at the higher of the following rates, namely: (i) at twice the rate specified in the relevant provision of the Act; or (ii) at twice the rate or rates in force; or (iii) at the rate of five per cent. (2) If the provisions of section 206AA is applicable to a specified person, in addition to the provision of this section, the tax shall be deducted at higher of the two rates provided in this section and in section 206AA. (3) For the purposes of this section specified person means a person who has not filed the returns of income for both of the two assessment years relevant to the two previous years immediately prior to the previous year in which tax is required to be deducted, for which the time limit of filing return of income under sub-section (1) of section 139 has expired; and the aggregate of tax deducted at source and tax collected at source in his case is rupees fifty thousand or more in each of these two previous years: Provided that the specified person shall not include a non-resident who does not have a permanent establishment in India. Explanation . For the purposes of this sub-section, the expression permanent establishment includes a fixed place of business through which the business of the enterprise is wholly or partly carried on. .