Union Budget 2024-25 (Full) + FINANCE (No.2) Bill, 2024

The existing provisions of section 206C of the Act provide, inter alia, for the collection of tax at source on business of trading in alcoholic liquor, forest produce, scrap etc. Sub-section (1F) provides that every person, being a seller, who receives any amount as consideration for sale of a motor vehicle of the value exceeding ten lakh rupees, shall, at the time of receipt of such amount, collect from the buyer, a sum equal to one per cent. of the sale consideration as income-tax.

2. It has been seen that there has been an increase in expenditure on luxury goods by high net worth persons. For proper tracking of such expenses and in order to widen and deepen the tax net, it is proposed to amend sub-section (1F) of section 206C to also levy TCS on any other goods of value exceeding ten lakh rupees, as may be notified by the Central Government in this behalf. Such goods would be in the nature of luxury goods.

3. The amendment will take effect from the 1st day of January, 2025.

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Union Budget 2024-25 (Full) + FINANCE (No.2) Bill, 2024

Tax collection at source on luxury goods expanded to cover notified high-value goods, enhancing tracking and widening the tax base. Amendment expands the Tax Collection at Source provision that applies to high-value motor vehicle sales to include other notified high-value luxury goods; sellers must collect TCS from buyers on notified goods exceeding the prescribed value threshold at the rate specified by law, to enhance tracking of luxury expenditure and to widen and deepen the tax base, effective from 1 January 2025.