December 15, 2022

The following are exception from TDS requirement for Virtual Digital Assets:

The consideration is paid by a “specified person” and the aggregate value of the consideration being paid does not exceed INR 50,000 during the financial year; or

The consideration is paid by a person other than a “specified person” and the aggregate value of the consideration being paid does not exceed INR 10,000 during the financial year.

A “specified person” is defined as an individual or Hindu undivided family:

Whose total sales, gross receipts or turnover from the business carried on by him or profession exercised by him does not exceed INR 1 crore in case of business or INR 50 lakhs in case of profession, during the financial year immediately preceding the financial year in which such VDA is transferred that does not have any income under the head “profits and gains of business or profession”.