{"act":{"id":"finance-act-2021","short_title":"The Finance Act, 2021","long_title":"An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2021-2022.","act_number":null,"act_year":2021,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":"Ministry of Finance","department":"Department of Revenue","jurisdiction":"CENTRAL","unit":"section","section_count":180,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"published","scan_url":null,"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2021/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"58","heading":"Insertion of new section 206CCA","text":"Insertion of new section 206CCA. 58. After section 206CC of the Income-tax Act, the following section shall be inserted with effect from the 1st day of July, 2021, namely:— '206CCA. Special provision for collection of tax at source for non-filers of income-tax return.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, where tax is required to be collected at source under the provisions of Chapter XVII-BB, on any sum or amount received by a person (hereafter referred to as collectee) from a specified person, the tax shall be collected at the higher of the following two rates, namely:— (i) | at twice the rate specified in the relevant provision of the Act; or (ii) | at the rate of five per cent. (2) If the provisions of section 206CC is applicable to a specified person, in addition to the provisions of this section, the tax shall be collected at higher of the two rates provided in this section and in section 206CC. (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 collected, 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.'.","html":"<p><b>Insertion of new section 206CCA.</b></p><p><b>58.</b> After section 206CC of the Income-tax Act, the following section shall be inserted with effect from the 1st day of July, 2021, namely:—</p><p>'206CCA. <i>Special provision for collection of tax at source for non-filers of income-tax return.</i>—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, where tax is required to be collected at source under the provisions of Chapter XVII-BB, on any sum or amount received by a person (hereafter referred to as collectee) from a specified person, the tax shall be collected at the higher of the following two rates, namely:—</p><div class=\"tablewrap\"><table class=\"dtable\"><tr><td>(<i>i</i>)</td><td></td><td>at twice the rate specified in the relevant provision of the Act; or</td></tr><tr><td>(<i>ii</i>)</td><td></td><td>at the rate of five per cent.</td></tr></table></div><p><span class=\"num\">(2)</span> If the provisions of section 206CC is applicable to a specified person, in addition to the provisions of this section, the tax shall be collected at higher of the two rates provided in this section and in section 206CC.</p><p><span class=\"num\">(3)</span> 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 collected, 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:</p><p><b>Provided</b> that the specified person shall not include a non-resident who does not have a permanent establishment in India.</p><p><i>Explanation</i>.—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.'.</p>","words":306,"text_source":"published"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/finance-act-2021/section/58/","note":null,"source_note":"Harvested from the Income Tax Department's own portal at incometaxindia.gov.in, which publishes the Finance Acts section by section. India Code carries none of them: its Central community holds the Acts that stand as general law, and a Finance Act is an amending and rate-fixing instrument.","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}