Thursday, September 27, 2012

Extended Withholding Tax

EWT: TDS Overview



EWT: TDS (Tax Deducted at Source)
  • Tax is deducted at source from all payments/provisions which are hit by the TDS provisions of the Act
  • Some of the above payments/provisions pertain to services that come within the scope of Tax Deducted at Source (‘TDS’) under the Indian Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘Act’).
  • Tax is not deducted from payment for goods
  • TDS is required to be deducted at the time of payment or invoice posting whichever is earlier.
  • The taxes which are so deducted, will then have to be deposited to the credit of the Indian Government on or before 7th of next every month.
  • The company will have to issue TDS certificates to the vendors for the tax deducted and also file with the tax office, Quarterly & Annual Return‘ of the total taxes deducted during the year under the various sections of the Act. 
EWT: Vendor TDS:




EWT: Vendor Transactions:




EWT: Customer Interest TDS:




EWT: Provisions and Adjustments:
  • TDS computed on entries in provisional liability accounts (GR/IR and SR/IR Accounts)
  • TDS is computed at each period end on uncleared entries remaining in the GR/IR and SR/IR accounts
  • GR/IR and SR/IR accounts relevant for computing TDS on provisions identified separately
  • GL accounts to which the provisional TDS is posted identified and document Type used for provisional TDS postings is separately identified
  • JV facility available for carrying out changes to TDS relevant postings
  • Accounts to which losses (non-recoverable TDS) is to be posted and the document type to be used for TDS adjustment postings is  identified separately.
EWT Activities: