The assessee contended that the Department had enjoyed the benefit of these funds while the appellant was deprived of the same. Whether interest u/s 244A should be allowed from the date of application for the additional claim or from 1st day of Assessment Year or from date of allowability of claim? 27th Oct., 1994. 1,200 being excess tax deducted by the deductors. In this case, the additional claims were lodged for the first time before the Tribunal and interest were allowed on the refund arising due to the allowability of the additional claim from the 1st day of Assessment Year. 60,000. Interest u/s 244A where delay in filing of return is condoned, U/s 119(2)(b), the Board has the power to condone the delay in filing of the return of income/loss if the same is not filed within the time allowed u/s 139 of the Act. (Refer to Example II Para 11.8). No such provision was there to claim the refund of excess TDS paid. This Court is of the opinion that such detail notwithstanding, the law declared in Gujarat Fluoro Chemicals (supra) is binding and permits no deviation.”, [India Trade Promotion Organisation V. CIT (2014) 361 ITR 646 (Del-HC)]. Interest under section 244A is allowable on refund of taxes due to the assessee arrived at after giving credit of TDS, advance tax, self assessment tax and brought forward MAT u/s 115JAA from gross tax liability. A problem arises when the dates fall in different financial years. 4. . If you were entitled to a 2019 tax refund, you may be in store for some good news: individual federal income tax refunds issued after April 15 will be paid with interest. Sub section (2) of section 244A provides that the assessee shall not be entitled to interest for the period of delay in issuing the proceedings leading to the refund that is attributable to the assessee. 11/2016 dated 27.04.2016  to state that refund of tax deposited under section 195 of the Act shall be liable for interest under section 244A from the date of payment of tax. To our mind such interpretation would only lead to anomalous situation and should therefore be avoided. 38.0 We are of the opinion that the definition contained in Section 3(35) of the General Clauses Act defining the term ‘month’ cannot be adopted for the purpose of sub-section (1) of Section 244A of the Act. ” used in sections 234A and 234B in which it is categorically stated that even where the delay is for part of a month say even for 1 day, interest at 2% (p.m.) will be charged. 3,60,000 is appearing in Form 26AS for AY 2019-20 and the income offered to tax is Rs. In our view, awarding cost of Rs. 790, dated  20-4-2000 CBDT stated that since the TDS amount paid into the Government account is not a 'tax', no interest under section 244A is admissible on refunds to be granted in accordance with this Circular or on the refunds already granted in accordance with Circular No. Nos. The IRS is crediting up to 5% interest on late tax refunds. to state that refund of tax deposited under section 195 of the Act shall be liable for interest under section 244A from the date of payment of tax. However, DCIT vs. State Bank of India in ITA No. In view of this, these appeals of the assessee are treated as allowed.”, The Revenue moved Miscellaneous Application, against the said order only to be dismissed by the ITAT. First and foremost requirement of sub-section (2) of Section 244A is that the proceedings resulting into refund should have been delayed for the reasons attributable to the assessee, whether wholly or in part. In fact, the cheque issued by the Government is known as “Income Tax Refund Order”. The State having received the money without right, and having retained and used it, is bound to make the party good, just as an individual would be under like circumstances. The same shall also apply in the case of calculating interest u/s 244A. It means any fraction of a month shall be ignored and taken as a full month. A note to this effect was inserted to the return of income. To calculate how much interest you could be due, let's use the average refund amount so far for 2020, which the IRS says is $2,767. Where an assessee has furnished his return of income and total taxes paid is more than the tax liability of the assessee and the assessee claim the excess taxes paid as a refund and the same is found due to him, the income tax law provides for payment of, interest on the amount of income-tax refund, to the assessee. The expression "proceeding" referred to in sub-section (2) of section 244A, more reasonably, would mean any proceeding as a result of which refund has become due. Para 10.11 describes the meaning of the expression “month or part of a month” used in sections 234A and 234B in which it is categorically stated that even where the delay is for part of a month say even for 1 day, interest at 2% (p.m.) will be charged. the Revenue. [, : Where a refund of any amount becomes due to the deductor in respect of any amount paid to the credit of the Central Government under Chapter XVII-B, such deductor shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the said amount, simple interest thereon calculated at the rate of 0.5% per cent for every month or part of a month comprised in the period, from the date on which—, to the date on which the refund is granted. Tax credits directly reduce the amount of tax you owe, dollar for dollar. , the Punjab and Haryana High Court declined to allow interest for the period of delay attributable to the assessee arising from belated claim of exemption. In the Tata Chemicals case (supra), their Lordships have categorically held that-. 769 dated 6-8-1998 prescribed the procedure for granting the refund of tax deducted at source under section 195. It becomes an integral part of Rs. The aforesaid issue was raised by the assessee only in the appeal filed before the learned CIT(A) which was disposed of by the order dt. Rule 119A prescribes the Procedure to be followed in calculating interest under the provisions of the Act. w.e.f. “, The ITAT Chandigarh in the case of  Ambuja Darla Kashlog Mangoo Transport Cooperative Society Ltd. vs DCIT in ITA No. In the present case the respondent-assessee had voluntarily included the amount received on account of transport subsidy as taxable income. 11.2 Insertion  of a new section 244A in lieu of sections 214, 243 and 244  - Under the provisions of section 214, interest was payable to the assessee on any excess advance tax paid by him in a financial year from the 1st day of April next following the said financial year to the date of regular assessment. Accordingly, it also includes the interest on the delayed refund, In the landmark judgment of Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of, Sandvik Asia Ltd. v. CIT [2006] 280 ITR 643 (SC)/Case No. It is held that the interest needs to be calculated on the refund due to the assessee without reducing the interest under section 244A which is part of the refund earlier granted. Engineers India Limited (ITA No. CIT(A) and the ITAT decided the case in favour of the assessee while the Karnataka High Court decided the case against the assessee. The fact that the assessee had filed an appeal which ultimately came to be allowed by the Commissioner, could not be a reason for delaying the proceedings which could be attributed to the assessee. Although, therefore, the responsibility for claiming refunds and reliefs rests with assessees on whom it is imposed by law, officers should :—. The IRS typically issues refunds for electronically filed returns within 21 days of receipt. Example II: Grant of refund under section 143(1) out of advance tax paid or tax deducted at source in a case where the return is filed late by the assessee - interest payable by the Department under section 244A : (i) Tax paid by way of advance tax/TDS before 31-3-1989, (ii) Tax due as per return of income for assessment year 1989-90, (iii) Due date for filing the return of income, (vii) Date of actual refund granted under section 143(1), *(VIII) Interest payable by the Department @ 1.5% per month for six months (i.e., 10 months comprised in the period 1-4-1989 - 31-1-1990 minus 4 months of delay in filing the return) i.e., @ 9% on Rs. IR-2020-183, August 18, 2020 WASHINGTON — This week the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service will send interest payments to about 13.9 million individual taxpayers who timely filed their 2019 federal income tax returns and are receiving refunds. Sec. The assessment was completed on 16th May, 1994, under the provisions of s. 143(3) of the Act. In this case, the additional claims were lodged for the first time before the Tribunal and interest were allowed on the refund arising due to the allowability of the additional claim from the 1st day of Assessment Year. It may be noted that upto 1st April, 1989, interest on the refund is permissible as prescribed under s. 243 of the Act wherein similar expression is used by legislature. 769. 6508, 6509 & 6510/Mum/2013 (ITAT Mumbai) and in ITA No. 214, 243 and 244 as clarified by the CBDT in its. Interest on refund of TDS: Where a refund of any amount becomes due to the deductor in respect of any amount paid to the credit of the Central Government under Chapter XVII-B, such deductor shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the said amount, simple interest thereon calculated at the rate of 0.5% per cent for every month or part of a month comprised in the period, from the date on which—, (a) claim for refund is made in the prescribed form, or. Increase or reduction of interest on refund. If you need more time than that to file your taxes, you can request an extension, at which point you'll get until Oct. 15 (six months from the date of the original deadline) to get your return in to the IRS. “14. On the said basis the assessment was made. In other words, wherein an assessment or a proceeding for giving effect to order of appellate authorities, the amount on which interest was granted earlier is increased or reduced, the interest under Section 244A shall be consequently increased or reduced. Thus, the period of limitation of 4 years for the purpose of section 154(7) has to be counted from the date of the order of the Appellate Authority. This sub-section (1A) provides that where a refund arises out of appeal effect being delayed beyond the time prescribed under sub-section (5) of section 153, the assessee shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the interest payable under sub-section (1) of section 244A, additional interest on such refund amount calculated at the rate of 3 per cent per annum, for the period beginning from the date following the date of expiry of the time allowed under section 153(5) to the date on which the refund is granted. If both the dates happen in the same financial year, it does not create any difficulty in determining the year of taxability. [Rajasthan State Electricity Board vs. CIT & Ors. Way back in 1998, CBDT vide Circular No. 549 dated 31-1-1989. The Form prescribed for filing claims for, In this context, it should be noted that Income Tax Act was amended by, Finance (No. Section 200A was made effective from 01.04.2010. is distinguished wherein it was held that interest u/s 244A is taxable in the year of receipt. CIT/CIT and not by the Assessing Officer. Similarly, ITAT Mumbai (Special Bench) in the case of, Avada Trading Company Pvt. [, MMTC Ltd. vs. ACIT (ITA No. This does not cover an order of making a fresh assessment or reassessment. Then vide Circular No. It is of no matter that the interest that is waived is discretionary in nature, for the moment that discretion is exercised, a concomitant right springs into being in favour of the assessee. 7. In this context, the Court held in Para.6 as under : “6. Therefore, the AO has reduced the total refund granted which consists refund of tax and interest already granted u/s 244A. The interest rate for the second quarter, ending on June 30, 2020, is 5% per year, compounded daily. In the other words, interest at the prescribed rate is to be paid to the assessee on the refund of tax paid for every month or part of a month comprised in the period from the date of payment of the tax to the date on which refund is granted. Finally, following the decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the. No. As already pointed out earlier, the provisions of the new section 244A shall apply to the assessment 1989-90 and subsequent assessment years, while the provisions of sections 214, 243 and 244, which have been replaced by the provisions of new sections 244A, shall cease to apply to the assessment year 1989-90 and onwards. This principle is also clarified for section 220(2) in the said Circular as “The use of the expression ", " in the sub-section means that even where the delay is for part of  a month, say even 1 day, interest shall be charged at 1.5%”, Examples to illustrate the calculation of interest under section 244A, and in example 1, a part of a month is taken as a full month. 3826 of 2012 following the UOI vs. Tata Chemicals 363 ITR 658 (SC). As already noticed in paragraph supra, the Madras High Court in Needle Industries Private Ltd. Case (supra) has also interpreted the phrase 'any amount' in the same manner when considering the provisions of Section 244(1A) of the Act, which also uses the same phrase in the context of interest payable by the Revenue. (2006) 281 ITR 274 (Raj), ]. For the third quarter, which ends on September 30, 2020, the interest rate will be 3% per year, compounded daily. To put an end to the dispute, the Finance Act, 2016 has expressly provided for payment of interest on income-tax refund arising from the excess payment of self-assessment tax u/s 140A. No. 5. Even in such a situation, the Court held that sub-section (2) of Section 244A would have no applicability. If interest is payable from the 1st day of the assessment year can it be concluded that the time required to verify the additional claim of the assessee is the delay attributable to the assessee u/s 244A(2) and hence such period of delay should be excluded from computing the period of interest. We, therefore, direct the AO to calculate interest payable to the assessee from the first day of April of the assessment year to the date on which the refund voucher is signed. 2/2007 dated 28-03-2007. its Instruction No. 769. We find that Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of, Sandvik Asia Ltd. vs. C.I.T. & Ors. “26.0 From the above statutory provisions, it can be seen that Section 244A provides for payment of interest where refund of any amount becomes due to the assessee under the said Act. No. 243 and 244 by Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1970. The Delhi High Court in Goodyear India Ltd. Case (supra) held that an assessee is entitled to further interest under Section 244 of the Act on interest under Section 214 of the Act which had been withheld by the Revenue. A similar proposition has been laid down by ITAT Mumbai in the case of Tolani Education Foundation vs ACIT  in ITA Nos. However, it is not clear in which year the interest on refund amount will be taxable. Whether the expression “in any other case” occurring in Section 244A (1) (b) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (“Act”) would include the amount of refund which constitutes the interest that has been waived by the Income Tax Department (“Department”) under Section 220 (2A) of the Act? This will cover a case where tax is paid as per demand notice but subsequently, the demand is vacated by an appeal order or rectification etc. Whenever money has been received by a party which ex ae quo et bono ought to be refunded, the right to interest follows, as a matter of course; (iii) The said interest has to be calculated from the date of payment of such tax. Under the terms of section 243 (now replaced by section 244A), interest is payable by the Government where the refund is not granted within three months from the date on which the total income is determined, and the interest where payable is to be calculated at the specified rate, from the date immediately following the expiry of the three months aforesaid to the date of the order granting the refund. In the case of ITC Limited vs. ACIT in ITA No.1267 & 685/Kol/2014, ITAT Kolkata following the third member decision of the Pune Tribunal in the case of DCIT vs. Sandvik Asia Ltd. [133 ITD 126 (Pune-TM)(2011)] did not allow interest payment on income tax dues against the interest income on the income tax refunds. His return was processed on 10.03.2019 after adjusting for certain mismatches in the return and Form 26AS and the refund amount was determined at Rs. (g) Sec. Income Tax Refund Provisions. The larger Bench of the Hon'ble Supreme court in the case of ‘CIT Vs. H.E.G. Both these were cases where the Court was called upon to decide whether further interest was payable by the Revenue on interest which had to be repaid to assessee. It is further noted that section 244A(1B) covers all types of refund of TDS whether deposited u/s 195 or under any other section. Section 200A was made effective from 01.04.2010. Maurie Backman is a personal finance writer who's passionate about educating others. Finally, the case was decided in favour of the assessee in the following words-, “21. has also held that in case of inordinate delay in the payment of interest, the Revenue can be directed to pay compensation for the same by way of interest . Refund of any other tax amount or penalty: Where any other amount tax or penalty paid is found to be payable to the assessee then interest is payable at the rate of 0.5% p.m. or part thereof from the date(s) of payment of such tax or penalty to the date on which the refund is granted. In her somewhat limited spare time, she enjoys playing in nature, watching hockey, and curling up with a good book. Period of delay attributable to the assessee or the deductor to be excluded: If any proceeding is going on against an assessee/deductor and at the end or conclusion of the proceeding any refund amount is due to the assessee/deductor and the proceeding was delayed due to the fault of the assessee/deductor then the period of the delay so attributable to the assessee/deductor shall be excluded from the period for which interest is payable under section 244A(1)/(1A)/(1B). In calculating the interest payable by the assessee or the interest payable by the Central Government to the assessee under any provision of the Act-. After merger, the order of the original authority ceases to exist and the order of the appellate authority prevails. )], Also see for similar decisions: Kerala State Civil Supplies Corpn. Thus the interest component in the refund already granted should be excluded while the same is to be reduced from the refund due to the assessee for the purposes of section 244A for future interest on the balance refund due amount. The Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of ‘, CIT Vs. Gujarat Fluoro Chemicals’ (2014) 1 SCC 126 (SC). 35 : Mistakes should be rectified as soon as they are discovered without waiting for an assessee to point them out. However, a three Judge Bench decision in Gujarat Fluoro Chemicals (supra), it was categorically held that the only amount which an assessee aggrieved by delayed payment can legitimately claim under the statute is interest and that "no other interest on such statutory interest" is payable. Therefore, it would be inappropriate for this Court to consider that judgment now as binding authority. Increase or reduction of interest under certain circumstances: Where, as a result of an order under sub-section (3) of section 115WE or section 115WF or section 115WG or sub-section (3) of section 143 or section 144 or section 147 or section 154 or section 155 or section 250 or section 254 or section 260 or section 262 or section 263 or section 264 or an order of the Settlement Commission under sub-section (4) of section 245D, the amount on which interest was payable under sub-section (1) has been increased or reduced, as the case may be, the interest shall be increased or reduced accordingly. In this case, the Delhi High Court has followed the decision of the Supreme Court in case of Hind Wire Industries v. CIT (1995) 212 ITR 639 (SC), The interest received on income tax refund cannot be adjusted or offset with the interest payable on the income tax liability. This means that even where the delay is for part of a month say even for 1 day, interest at 2% will be charged. The Court held that for this purpose Section 240 of the Act was relevant which referred to refund of 'any amount becoming due to an assessee' and that the said phrase would include interest and hence the assessee was entitled to further interest on interest wrongfully withheld. Therefore, it is proper to assume that the words “, on which the refund is granted” in s. 244A mean the date of signing the Income-tax Refund Order i.e., the refund voucher, . On the said basis the assessment was made. - The old provisions in the Income-tax Act, provided for payment of interest by the Department on refunds due to the assessees were contained in the following sections of the Act: Insertion  of a new section 244A in lieu of sections 214, 243 and 244. The Madhya Pradesh High Court in the case of, Universal Cables Ltd. v. CIT [2010] 191 Taxman 370 (MP) [M.A.I.T. The expression "proceeding" referred to in sub-section (2) of section 244A, more reasonably, would mean any proceeding as a result of which refund has become due. The Explanation only clarifies the date of payment in case of taxes paid under a demand notice or payment of penalty. In this case, there was no decision by the Commissioner or Chief Commissioner on this issue and so much so, we do not think the Assessing Officer made out the case of delay in refund for any period attributable to the assessee disentitling for interest. Thus, in cases where interest is payable by the Central Government to assessees under s.243 of the Act, such interest is to be calculated up to the date of issue of the refund voucher. This was done on two grounds, namely, that the provisions of Section 244A do not provide for payment of interest on refund due on account of waiver of interest that is charged under Sections 234A-C of the Act and second, that the power assumed by the Settlement Commission for waiver of interest, by following the CBDT circular referred to, does not enable the Commission to provide for payment of interest under Section 244A. In this context, the term ‘month’ in our opinion, must be given the ordinary sense of the term i.e. An assessee can be certainly denied interest if delay is attributable to him in terms of sub-section (2) to Section 244A, However, when the delay is not attributable to the assessee but due to the fault of the Revenue, then interest should be paid under the said Section. 01.04.1989 and were made applicable from Assessment Year 1989-90. No. This decision is distinguishable from the facts of the cases mentioned above since this is a case where an application for exemption before the CBDT was filed and a notification was to be issued by the CBDT for such claiming the exemption. These provisions apart from being complicated left certain gaps for which interest was not paid by the Department to the assessee for money remaining with the Government. For the third quarter of 2020, the interest rate is 3% on tax balances due to the IRS. Accordingly, the entire interest received is subject to tax in the first instance. Similar decisions were taken by the Kerala High Court in case of, CIT vs. South Indian Bank Limited (2012) 340 ITR 574 (Ker). In a subsequent decision,  Lucknow Bench of the Tribunal in case of Indo Gulf Corporation Ltd. vs. DCIT reported in 141 TTJ 0862/61 DTR 203 wherein the decision of Hon’ble Rajasthan High Court in case of Rajasthan State Electricity Board (supra) has been followed. In such circumstances, the proper course would be to claim the same through rectification u/s 154. In the affidavit filed on 29th January, 2013, the respondents have stated as under:-, ‘Where an assessee makes a mistake in the claim 0f TDS in the e-return and the return is processed and a demand is raised and subsequently, the assessee rectifies the mistake in the claim and files an online rectification application, the same is processed and on any excess TDS is refunded, the interest under section 244A is granted as per the I.T. If such period is a fraction of a month, the same shall be deemed to be a full month and the interest shall be calculated for the entire month accordingly. [Section 244A(1)(aa)]. People who submitted their 2019 income tax returns by July 15 are eligible for interest payments of up to 5% on their tax refunds. (a) if the refund is out of any advance tax paid or tax deducted at source during the financial year immediately preceding the assessment year, interest shall be payable for the period starting from the 1st April of the assessment year and on the date of grant of the refund. The above decisions did not mention the clarification or method of computation for the months comprised in a period given by the CBDT itself in Circular No. In other words, even a single day of the month shall be treated as a full month. In the case in hand also, there is an inordinate delay of more than 10 years in payment of balance amount to the assessee, hence, in the light of the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of, , the assessee is otherwise entitled for compensation from the Revenue for inordinate delay in the payment of interest . 6262 & 6263/Mum/2010) (Mum-Trib. An issue came up for consideration before the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of K. Lakshmanya & Co. v. Commissioner of Income Tax [2017] 399 ITR 657 (SC). The Mumbai Tribunal  following the decision in Avada Trading Co. Ltd. (supra) rejected the contention of the assessee and held that interest u/s.244A is assessable on the grant of refund, of which it forms a part, upon processing u/s 143(1). The main argument before the court was argued on the use of words ‘due to the assessee’ employed in the opening sentence of section 244A(1). The Explanation below the aforesaid Clause (b) of section 244A(1) reads as under: Explanation — For the purpose of this clause, “date of payment of tax or penalty” means the date on and from which the amount of tax or penalty specified in the notice of demand issued u/s. If the contention of the assessee in the present case is accepted, in a case where the assessee pays tax on 31 st January and is granted refund on 1 st February of the same year, shall also be entitled to interest for two full months. The Internal Revenue Service today announced that interest rates will decrease for the calendar quarter beginning July 1, 2020. To remove this inequity, as also to simplify the provisions in this regard the Amending Act, 1987 has inserted a new section 244A in the Income-tax Act, applicable from the assessment year 1989-90 and onwards, which contains all the provisions for payment of interest by the department on delay in the grant of refunds. The Tribunal further held that interest income shall be charged to income tax in the respective assessment years in which the interest income accrued and not fully in one year in which the interest is received. and the payment of such tax is refundable to the assessee. When refunds are delayed, the IRS pays interest rates far higher than bank accounts do: 5% compounded daily for the second quarter and 3% compounded daily starting July 1. As already explained in para 10.11 ante, the meaning of this expression is that even where the delay is for part of a month, interest @ 1.5% will be charged.”. interest is to be calculated on annual basis. Prior to insertion of section 244(1)(aa), it was a burning question whether interest on refund arising due to excess payment of self-assessment tax u/s 140A is subject to interest under section 244A or not, was a subject matter of litigation. In this case, their Lordships held that-, Ambuja Darla Kashlog Mangoo Transport Cooperative Society Ltd. vs DCIT, allowed the appeal in assessee’s favour for delay in payment of interest to the assessee by the department in the following words-, “14. 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