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Budget 2025: TDS limit for rent payment raised to ₹6 lakh; no TCS on remittances for study abroad
The threshold to collect tax at source on remittances under RBI's liberalised remittance scheme (LRS) is proposed to be increased from ₹7 lakh to ₹10 lakh.
Union Budget 2025: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during Budget 2025 proposed to rationalise tax deduction at source (TDS) by reducing the number of rates and thresholds above which TDS is deducted .
She introduced a number of key reforms with regards to rent payments, remittances, higher education, sale of goods and decriminalisation of offenders.
Senior citizens: Limit for tax deduction on interest for senior citizens has been raised from ₹50,000 to ₹1 lakh.
Rent payment: The annual limit of 2.40 lakh for TDS on rent is raised to ₹6 lakh.
This means while tenants are supposed to deduct TDS on rent given at the rate of ₹20,000 a month was to be deducted. Now the limit is raised to ₹50,000.
This is supposed to reduce the number of transactions liable to TDS, thus helping small taxpayers receiving small payments.
Remittances: The threshold to collect tax at source on remittances under RBI's liberalised remittance scheme (LRS) is proposed to be increased from ₹7 lakh to ₹10 lakh.
Higher education: And when someone is paying on remittance for education purposes from a loan taken from a bank, there would be no TCS. The provisions of the higher TDS deduction will apply only in non-PAN cases.
Sale of goods: Currently both TDS and TCS apply on transactions relating to sale of goods. She proposed to omit the TCS.
No criminal penalty: In July 2024, the delay for payment of TDS up to the due date of filing statement was decriminalized. The same relaxation was extended to TCS provisions too.
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First Published:1 Feb 2025, 01:23 PM IST
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