Court Rules TDS Not Required on External Development Charges to HUDA; Section 194-I Misapplied as 'Rent' by Assessment Officer.

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....TDS u/s 194I OR 194C - External Development Charges (‘EDC’) paid to Haryana Urban Development Authority (‘HUDA’) - the Revenue does not seek to support the decision of the AO that EDC are ‘rent’ or in the nature of ‘rent’. Thus, concededly, the fundamental reasoning on which the impugned order rests is fundamentally flawed. - Petitioners in these petitions were required to deduct TDS from EDC under Section 194-I - HC....