Railway siding and demurrage charges exempt from TDS u/s 194C if compliance is impossible due to uncontrollable circumstances.

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....TDS u/s 194C - non-deduction of tax at source on railway siding charges and demurrage charges - Where the law creates a duty or charge and the party is disabled to perform it, without any default in him and has no remedy over it, there the law will, in general, excuse him. Therefore, when it appears that the performance of the formalities prescribed by a statute has been rendered impossible by circumstances over which the person interested had no control, the circumstances will be taken as a valid excuse. - AT....