Section mapper · TDS and TCS
Section 194DA of the Income-tax Act, 1961 is now
section 393 of the Income-tax Act, 2025
TDS on a life insurance payout that is not exempt.
- Was
s.194DA, Income-tax Act, 1961 (repealed)- Is now
s.393(1) Table: Sl. No. 8(i), Income-tax Act, 2025- In force from
What changed
Restructured into a table. A sum under a life insurance policy, including bonus, that is not excluded by Schedule II (Table: Sl. No. 2) is serial number 8(i) of the section 393(1) table — 2% of the income comprised in the sum, above a ₹1,00,000 threshold.
Where this comes from
Read from incometaxindia.gov.in on , and re-checked against the enacted Income-tax Act, 2025 (Act No. 30 of 2025, assented 21 August 2025, in force 1 April 2026). This dataset is re-verified quarterly. The whole method is on our methodology page.
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