Section 194T - TDS on Payments to Partners by Firm
# Section 194T - TDS on Payments by Firm to Partners
## Who Deducts
Any person, being a firm.
## Payee
Partner of such firm.
## On What
Any sum in the nature of:
Salary
Remuneration
Commission
Bonus
Interest paid to partners.
## Threshold
Sum or aggregate of such sum > ₹ 20,000 during the F.Y.
## Rate of TDS
10%
## When to Deduct
At the time of credit of such sum to the account of the partner (including credit to the capital account) OR at the time of payment, whichever is earlier.
> Important: Credit to partner's capital account is also a trigger event for TDS — firms cannot defer TDS by routing payments to capital account.
Not deducting TDS when amount is credited to partner's capital account — credit to capital a/c is a trigger
Applying lower rate — rate is uniformly 10%
Forgetting that interest paid to partners is also covered (not just remuneration/salary)
Bare-Act text Section 194T · Income-tax Act, 1961 · click to expand
Any person, being a firm, responsible for paying any sum in the nature of salary, remuneration, commission, bonus or interest to a partner of the firm, shall, at the time of credit of such sum to the account of the partner (including the capital account) or at the time of payment thereof, whichever is earlier, deduct income-tax thereon at the rate of ten per cent. Provided that no deduction shall be made under this sub-section where such sum or, as the case may be, the aggregate of such sums credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid to the partner of the firm does not exceed twenty thousand rupees during the financial year.