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Rule 26: Rate of exchange for the purpose of deduction of tax at source on income payable in foreign currency

The Income-tax Rules, 1962Central Act · 1962

PART VI

DEDUCTION OF TAX AT SOURCE

[Rate of exchange for the purpose of deduction of tax at source on income payable in foreign currency.

For the purpose of deduction of tax at source on any income payable in foreign currency, the rate of exchange for the calculation of the value in rupees of such income payable—

(i) to an assessee outside India;

(ii) to a Unit located in an International Financial Services Centre;

(iii) by a Unit located in an International Financial Services Centre to an assessee in India,

shall be the telegraphic transfer buying rate of such currency as on the date on which the tax is required to be deducted at source under the provisions of Chapter XVIIB by the person responsible for paying such income.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this rule,—

(i) "International Financial Services Centre" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (q) of section 2 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005);

(ii) "telegraphic transfer buying rate", in relation to a foreign currency, means the rate or rates of exchange adopted by the State Bank of India constituted under the State Bank of India Act, 1955 (23 of 1955), for buying such currency, having regard to the guidelines specified from time to time by the Reserve Bank of India for buying such currency, where such currency is made available to that bank through a tele- graphic transfer;

(iii) "Unit" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (zc) of section 2 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005).]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Income-tax Rules, 1962
Rule26
Marginal noteRate of exchange for the purpose of deduction of tax at source on income payable in foreign currency
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted. Substituted by the IT (Seventeenth Amdt.) Rules, 2023, w.e.f. 17-8-2023.

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