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TDS on purchase of property from an NRI

Sec. 195 would require tax deduction at source on payments to non-resident, which are chargeable to tax in India. The purchaser on purchase of a property from a non-resident is expected to deduct tax “on income by way of long-term capital gains” at 20 per cent. The purchaser cannot know the cost of the asset and cost of improvement to the seller so as to arrive at capital gains unless the non-resident seller co-operates with the purchaser.

But where the tax is directly paid by the non-resident on capital gains, the resident can be liable only for interest on the amount of tax from the date on which tax deduction was due till the date of direct payment as pointed out by the Tribunal in Mrs. Meena S. Patil v Asst. CIT (International Taxation) (2008) 300 ITR (AT) 317 (Bangalore).

S. RAJARATNAM

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