Section 115BBDA(1) — the law in short
What the courts have decided on section 115BBDA(1), in one screen. Read this first; open an entry when you need the facts, the reasoning and the source.
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Statutory position — s.115BBDA: the ten per cent charge on a resident shareholder receiving dividend above ten lakh rupees, and why it sat on top of DDT rather than instead of it
CBDT Circulars & InstructionsCuts both waysSuperseded by amendment
My client got a notice charging ten per cent on his dividend income under s.115BBDA even though the companies had already paid DDT. Is that double taxation, and for which years does it apply?
Section 115BBDA charges a specified assessee resident in India, whose total income includes dividend in aggregate exceeding ten lakh rupees declared, distributed or paid by a domestic company or companies on or before 31 March 2020, to income-tax at ten per cent on the amount of such dividend in aggregate exceeding ten lakh rupees, plus the tax on the rest of his income computed as if the dividend were excluded. Sub-section (2) bars any deduction for expenditure or allowance and any set off of loss in computing that dividend income, and the Explanation excludes a s.2(22)(e) deemed dividend and takes a domestic company, a s.10(23C)(iv)/(v)/(vi)/(via) fund, institution, trust, university or hospital, and a trust or institution registered under s.12A, s.12AA or s.12AB out of 'specified assessee'.
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