Income Tax department has changed the date for filing of quarterly E TDS return vide notification 57/2011 dated 24.10.2011.In this notification due date to filing etds returns has been extended by 15 days for first three quarters of the Financial year but remains the same for last quarter ending 31st March. These amendment is applicable form 01.11.2011 so applicable from 3rd quarter of F.Y. 2011-12.This amendment is applicable ONLY FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICES.
Notification reads as follows:-
INCOME-TAX (EIGHTH AMENDMENT) RULES, 2011 - AMENDMENT IN RULES 31A AND 37BA
NOTIFICATION NO. 57/2011 [F.NO. 142/23/2011-SO(TPL)]/S.O. 2429 (E), DATED 24-10-2011
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely:—
1. (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (Eighth Amendment) Rules, 2 (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of November, 2011.
2. In the Income-tax Rules, 1962, —
(A) in rule 31A—
(a) for sub-rule (2), the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely:—
"(2) Statements referred to in sub-rule (1) for the quarter of the financial year ending with the date specified in column (2) of the Table below shall be furnished by
(i) the due date specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table, if the deductor is an office of Government; and
(ii) the due date specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table, if the deductor is a person other than the person referred to in clause(i)
Table
Date of ending of Due date for Due date for Others
the quarter of the Government Offices
financial year
30th June 31st July of the financial year 15th July of the financial year
30th September 31st October of the financial year 15th October of the financial year
31st December 31st January of the financial year 15th January of the financial year
31st March 15th May of the financial year 15th May of the financial year
immediately following the financial immediately following the financial
year in which deduction is made year in which deduction is made
(b) in sub-rule (4), after clause (vi), the following clause shall be inserted, namely;—
"(vii) furnish particulars of amount paid or credited on which tax was not deducted in view of the furnishing of declaration under sub-section (1) or sub-section (1A) or sub-section (IC) of section 197A by the payee."
(B) in rule 37BA, in sub-rule (2), for clause (i), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
"(i) where under any provisions of the Act, the whole or any part of the income on which tax has been deducted at source is assessable in the hands of a person other than the deductee, credit for the whole or any part of the tax deducted at source, as the case may be, shall be given to the other person and not to the deductee :
Provided that the deductee files a declaration with the deductor and the deductor reports the tax deduction in the name of the other person in the information relating to deduction of tax referred to in sub-rule (1)."
