Furnishing of quarterly return in respect of payment of interest to residents without deduction of tax.
206A. (1) Any banking company or co-operative society or public company referred to in the proviso to clause (i) of sub-section (3) of section 194A responsible for paying to a resident any income [not exceeding ten thousand rupees, where the payer is a banking company or a co-operative society, and five thousand rupees in any other case] by way of interest (other than interest on securities), shall prepare [such statements for such period as may be prescribed] and deliver or cause to be delivered to the prescribed income-tax authority or the person authorised by such authority the quarterly returns as aforesaid, in the prescribed form, verified in such manner and within such time as may be prescribed, on a floppy, diskette, magnetic cartridge tape, CD-ROM or any other computer readable media.
(2) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, require any person other than a person mentioned in sub-section (1) responsible for paying to a resident any income liable for deduction of tax at source under Chapter XVII, to prepare and deliver or cause to be delivered [such statements] in the prescribed form and verified in such manner and within such time as may be prescribed, to the prescribed income-tax authority or the person authorised by such authority on a floppy, diskette, magnetic cartridge tape, CD-ROM or any other computer readable media.]
The following section 206AA shall be inserted after section 206A by the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2009, w.e.f. 1-4-2010 : |