Income-tax Act, 1961 · Chapter XVII: Collection and Recovery of Tax · B.—Deduction at source
Section 196C: Income from foreign currency bonds or shares of Indian company
The Income-tax Act, 1961 was repealed by the Income-tax Act, 2025 from 1 April 2026. The text is kept here because the judgments below apply it.
[Where any income by way of interest or dividends in respect of [bonds or Global Depository Receipts] referred to in section 115AC or by way of long-term capital gains arising from the transfer of such [bonds or Global Depository Receipts] is payable to a non-resident], the person responsible for making the payment shall, at the time of credit of such income to the account of the payee or at the time of payment thereof in cash or by the issue of a cheque or draft or by any other mode, whichever is earlier, deduct income-tax thereon at the rate of ten per cent.]: [Provided that no such deduction shall be made in respect of any dividends referred to in section 115-O.]
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 196C
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