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Issues: Whether the assessee could be treated as an assessee in default for short deduction of tax at source where the deductee had already offered the corresponding income to tax and paid tax thereon, and whether the associated interest demand could survive.
Analysis: The short deduction arose from payment of interest on which tax was deducted at a lower rate. The record showed that the deductee had returned the interest income and the corresponding tax had already been paid. In such a situation, the governing principle is that tax already recovered from the deductee cannot be recovered again from the deductor. The decision also followed the binding CBDT circular clarifying that no demand under section 201(1) should be enforced once the officer is satisfied that the deductee has paid the tax. The interest liability under section 201(1A) was treated as consequential to the demand raised for short deduction.
Conclusion: The assessee could not be fastened with the demand for short deduction once the deductee's tax payment was established, and the interest demand also failed as consequential relief.
Final Conclusion: The appeal succeeded and the tax demand arising from the alleged short deduction, together with the related interest, was deleted.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the deductee has already discharged tax on the income in question, recovery of the same tax from the deductor is impermissible, and the demand under section 201(1) cannot be enforced once such payment is established.
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