Withholding check
Skill Zerif007/Claude_Legal-Bangladesh_Edition/bd-tax-legal/skills/withholding-check
Determines TDS (income tax withholding) and VDS (VAT deducted at source) treatment for a specific payment under the Income Tax Act 2023 and VAT & SD Act 2012 — including cross-border payments needing treaty and FERA analysis. Use for "do we withhold on this payment", "TDS rate", "VDS applicable?", "paying a foreign vendor", or gross-up drafting.From its SKILL.md
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Withholding Check — TDS / VDS
Config gate + the tax plugin's absolute rule: no rate from memory — output the
analysis structure with [verify current Finance Act/SRO] tags, and populate figures
only from the config's dated Finance Act notes.
Analysis sequence
- Characterise the payment (services type, royalty, technical fee, rent, supply of goods, dividend, interest, contractor payment) — TDS schedules key off characterisation; mixed contracts may need splitting.
- Payer status: is the payer a "specified person"/withholding entity? (Determines both TDS obligation and VDS obligation.)
- Domestic leg: TDS section + rate
[verify]; minimum-tax character of the deduction (many TDS heads are minimum tax for the payee — affects negotiation of gross-up clauses); PSR (proof of return submission) collection duty from vendors. - VDS leg: is the supply within the VDS mandate list? rate/truncated base
[verify]; Mushak-6.6 certificate issuance; input-credit consequences. - Cross-border leg (if non-resident payee):
- ITA 2023 non-resident withholding head
[verify rate]; - treaty relief — check the DTAA with the payee's residence state; NBR treaty-benefit
procedure (certificate requirement)
[verify current process]; - FERA/Bangladesh Bank remittance route via AD bank — documentation set (invoice, agreement, tax-payment proof, BB permission where the payment class needs it); royalty/technical-fee outbound caps (BIDA guidelines) — flag;
- PDPA 2026 note if the "service" involves data export.
- ITA 2023 non-resident withholding head
- Contract drafting tail: produce the gross-up / net-of-tax clause matching the analysis, and the certificate-delivery mechanics.
Output: attorney-review draft memo — characterisation, obligations table (TDS/VDS/treaty/ FERA rows), documentation checklist, clause language, escalations (treaty ambiguity, PE risk of the foreign payee, any BB-permission payment class).
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