TDS u/s 194H - allegation of payment of as commission to agents...

TDS u/s 194H - allegation of payment of as commission to agents / doctors - the doctors were not bound to prescribe the medicines as suggested by the assessee. As such there was no legal compulsion on the part of the doctors to prescribe a particular medicine suggested by the assessee, and therefore, the doctors could not be said to have acted as the agent of the assessee. In absence of the existence of the element of agency between the assessee and the doctors, the provisions contained in Section 194H of the Act could not be invoked. - AT