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2023 (10) TMI 546 - AT - Income TaxTDS credit - year in which income was declared there was no reflection of TDS amount in Form No. 26AS and vice versa in succeeding year - assessee is following mercantile system of accounting and declared the income during the assessment year 2018-19, whereas the deductor deducted and deposited the amount of TDS on payment basis i.e. in AY 2019-20, accordingly TDS credit in Form No. 26AS also reflected in assessment year 2019-20 - HELD THAT:- AO has relied on sub-rule (1) of section 37BA for denying the benefit of TDS which provides that the credit for TDS shall be given to the person to whom payment has been made or credit has been given on the basis of information relating to TDS furnished by the deductor. What is material for sub-rule (1) is the beneficiary of credit for the TDS, being the person to whom payment has been made, which in the instant case is the assessee. CIT (A) has, in addition, relied on sub-rule (4) of Rule 37BA, which again provides that the credit for TDS shall be granted on the basis of information relating to deduction of tax at source furnished by the deductor. How, this rule prejudices the claim of the assessee is anybody's guess. Obviously, the information about the TDS by KMAMC is not denied. Both the sub-rules simply provide for granting of the benefit of TDS. The point of time at which the benefit of TDS is to be given, is governed by sub-rule (3) of Rule 37BA, which unequivocally provides through clause (i) that the 'credit for tax deducted at source and paid to the Central Government, shall be given for the assessment year for which such income is assessable'. It is, ergo, abundantly clear from the mandate of Rule 37BA (3) (i) that the benefit of TDS is to be given for the assessment year for which the corresponding income is assessable. Since the income, on which tax was deducted at source, is patently assessable in the year under consideration, we hold that the benefit of the TDS should also be allowed in the same year, namely, the year under consideration. We, therefore, overturn the impugned order and direct accordingly.
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