Tax deduction at source remains mandatory; interim withholding relief refused while advance ruling applications were treated as withdrawn.

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....Tax deduction at source remained mandatory, and interim protection against withholding was refused because no finding had been made that the payments were not chargeable to tax; the Court would not bypass statutory deduction on equitable grounds or by substituting security. To end the continuing uncertainty for the non-resident taxpayer, the pending advance ruling applications were treated as withdrawn, and the Assessing Officer was directed to complete the A.Y. 2018-19 assessment while examining taxability under the Act, the DTAA, and the equalisation levy implications.....