You have to pay higher income tax at source with effective from 1st of April 2011 in cases where you have not given your PAN number to the payer. IT act has specified 22 items where the payer has to compulsorily deduct income tax from the income or payment that is paid to the payee. Every person receiving these amounts has to compulsorily furnish his/her permanent account number to the other person who is responsible for deducting TDS. Failure to do so will attract higher of the following rates as TDS;
- Rate and rates as specified in the income tax act or
- At the rate of 20%
You should intimate your Permanent Account Number to the person who is deducting tax from your income or payment. For example, all employees have to compulsorily get PAN card and intimate the same to their employer if their salary income exceed the basis exemption limit of income tax.
At present the regular rate of deducting income tax at source (TDS) is 1% to 10%. All these payments will attract TDS at a rate of 20% if for such transactions you have not provided Permanent Account Number to the payer.
It is also mandatory for all the employees to provide PAN if there income during the financial year increased or about to increase the basic exemption limit of income tax. Companies in India also started not paying salary to employees if Permanent Account Number has not been provided to them.
After deducting tax @ 20%, all the payers need to deposit the same with the IT department. Such TDS amount can be claimed by the tax payer as a deduction from the income tax liability while filling his income tax return at the end of the year.
Where the Permanent Account Number provided to the deductor/payer is invalid or does not belong to the payee (to whom you are making payment) then it will be treated as if such person has not produced PAN and accordingly TDS has to be deducted at a higher rate as specified above.
All senior citizens have to get there PAN from IT department. If there income is below the tax liability amount then they can file form 15H in addition to Permanent Account Number. Without a Permanent Account Number they will be charged with 20% of TDS on their income or payments received.
Above provisions are also applicable to non resident whose income or payment attracts TDS as per the provisions of IT act.
The idea behind such provision is to attract more peoples to get PAN card by which all financial transactions will be linked to PAN.
You have to quote pan in all correspondence with the IT department and for the transactions as specified under IT act.
pankaj says
someone deducted 20% tds on my income and it is not showing in my 26AS ? should i claim it?
if not should i show that income in my ITR and pay tax again on it ??
Mokil says
When we are joining of my job in bank than I have not made my PAN number in first quarter tds are deducted my salary and I received net salary now I made my pan number and ITR files than check my tds first quarter tds are not available in 26AS what can I do give a reply
anubhav says
I had the National service scheme account in post office at that time the pan number was not associated with account when i closed the account no one from the department asked for the PAN number not they have deducted tax at 20% and when i provided the pan number they are saying it can not be rectified and i can not avail the refund.kindly tell me is there any way i can get my refund
m siva sai kumar says
when we joined in the organization we did not intimate my pan number hence they deducted TDS @ 20% the next month we updated my pan number. can we get the deducted TDS amount or not ?
YFB says
If its not adjusted by your employer then you can claim refund from tax department. First, check with your employer and get form 16 from them.
vishal says
I have applied for the pan card and I have also the acknowlegdement no which I have given to the payer. do I be charged with 20%