Court Upholds TDS Deduction on Salaries of Nuns and Priests, Asserts Compliance with Section 192 of Income Tax Act.

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....Whether the non-deduction of tax at source (TDS) from the salaries of nuns or priests for more than 76 years confers a right against such deduction? - We are afraid that we cannot agree with the contentions put forward by the appellants. Since we have already found that the mandate of section 192 of the Act is clear that TDS has to be deducted from the salaries payable to nuns or priests, a contrary practise, which was contrary to the law of the land, cannot be permitted to be continued. - there cannot be any estoppel against law - HC....