{"id":2146,"date":"2020-07-02T04:55:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T04:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dahotreca.com.com\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2020-07-02T04:55:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T04:55:26","slug":"regarding-due-date-of-advance-tax-for-the-4th-installment-of-fy-2019-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/?p=2146","title":{"rendered":"Regarding due date of Advance Tax for the 4th Installment of FY 2019-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>As per \u201cTHE TAXATION AND OTHER LAWS (RELAXATION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS) ORDINANCE, 2020, NO. 2 OF 2020 (the Ordinance), IN CHAPTER II, Point No. 3(1) where, any time limit has been specified in or prescribed or notified under, the specified act which falls during the period from the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Day of March, 2020 to the 29<sup>th<\/sup> Day of June, 2020 or such other date after 29<sup>th<\/sup> June, 2020 as the Central Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf, for the completion or compliance of such actions and where completion or compliance of such action has not been made within such time, then, the time limit for completion or compliance of such action shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the specified Act, stand extended to the 30th day of June, 2020, or such other date after the 30th day of June, 2020, as the Central Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the above words of the Ordinance No. 2 of 2020, we can\ninterpret that due date of Payment of Advance Tax for the 4<sup>th<\/sup>\ninstalment (instalment payable as on 15.03.2020) of FY 2019-20 was 15<sup>th<\/sup>\nMarch, 2020 because 15<sup>th<\/sup> day of March does not fall during the\nperiod from the 20<sup>th<\/sup> day of March to 29<sup>th<\/sup> Day of June,\n2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving further to Point No. 3(2) of the Ordinance, <em>\u201cWhere any due date has been specified in,\nor prescribed or notified under, the specified Act for payment of any amount\ntowards tax or levy, by whatever name called, which falls during the period\nfrom the 20th day of March, 2020 to the 29th day of June, 2020 or such other\ndate after the 29th day of June, 2020 as the Central Government may, by\nnotification, specify in this behalf, and such amount has not been paid within\nsuch date, but has been paid on or before the 30thday of June, 2020, or such\nother date after the 30th day of June, 2020 as the Central Government may, by\nnotification, specify in this behalf, then, notwithstanding anything contained\nin the specified Act,- <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(a) the rate of\ninterest payable, if any, in respect of such amount for the period of delay\nshall not exceed three-fourth per cent. for every month or part thereof; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(b) no penalty shall\nbe levied and no prosecution shall be sanctioned in respect of such amount for\nthe period of delay. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Explanation.- For the\npurposes of this sub-section, &#8220;the period of delay&#8221; means the period\nbetween the due date and the date on which the amount has been paid.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the above words of the Ordinance No. 2 of 2020, we can\ninterpret that, if payment of advance tax for the 4<sup>th<\/sup> instalment of\nFY 2019-20 has not been paid or has been paid on or before the 30<sup>th<\/sup>\nDay of June, 2020 or such other date after 30<sup>th<\/sup> Day of June as the\nCentral Govt. may specify, the rate of interest for the default made in delay\nin payment shall be 0.75% per month or part thereof, i.e. 9% p.a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For Example,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>An Assessee being individual below age 60<\/li><li>Total tax liability Rs. 50,000 (including cess)<\/li><li>Due date for furnishing Income Tax Return for AY\n2020-21 is 31\/07\/2020 (assumed)<\/li><li>Actual date for furnishing Income Tax Return for\nAY 2020-21 30\/07\/2020<\/li><li>Assessee has not paid any instalment of advance\ntax during FY 2019-20 for AY 2020-21<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will be liable to pay interest u\/s 234B at 0.75% per\nmonth or part thereof calculated from 01.04.2020. Therefore his interest on tax\nliability u\/s 234B for four months (since u\/s 234B period for calculating\ninterest on tax payable starts from 1<sup>st<\/sup> April of the Assessment year\nrelevant to the previous year to the date of furnishing the return) will be Rs.\n&nbsp;1,500. And u\/s 234C will be Rs. 2,400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, his total tax liability including interest will\nbe Rs. 53,900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>As per the Ordinance No. 2 of 2020, we can say that due date for the payment of 4<sup>th<\/sup> installment of advance tax for FY 2019-20 (AY 2020-21) has not extended and it was 15<sup>th<\/sup> Day of March, 2020.<\/li><li>But default made in payment of the 4<sup>th<\/sup> installment of advance tax for FY 2019-20 will attract 0.75% interest per month or 9% Per Year.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per \u201cTHE TAXATION AND OTHER LAWS (RELAXATION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS) ORDINANCE, 2020, NO. 2 OF 2020 (the Ordinance), IN CHAPTER II, Point No. 3(1) where, any time limit has been specified in or prescribed or notified under, the specified act which falls during the period from the 20th Day of March, 2020 to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"User Collaborator","author_link":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/?author=3"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/?cat=9\" rel=\"category\">Direct Taxation<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"As per \u201cTHE TAXATION AND OTHER LAWS (RELAXATION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS) ORDINANCE, 2020, NO. 2 OF 2020 (the Ordinance), IN CHAPTER II, Point No. 3(1) where, any time limit has been specified in or prescribed or notified under, the specified act which falls during the period from the 20th Day of March, 2020 to the&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dahotreca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}