Surrogacy payments under scrutiny: Authorities uphold disallowance for TDS non-deduction per Section 194C, funds misappropriated by NGO.

TDS u/s 194C - surrogacy payments without deducting TDS - these parties have done nothing else but exploited the poor and destitute surrogate mothers without even paying the adequate compensation. Rather the payee ‘NGO’ and its office bearer(s) have prima facie swindled the entire money. This conclusion flows from the entire surrogacy procedure adopted by the assessee with the so called NGO and its authorised person - We thus uphold the learned lower authorities’ action invoking Section 194C r.w.s. 40(a)(ia) disallowance - AT .....

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