Interest on securities which is exempt u/s 10(15)
Interest incomes which are exempt under section 10(15) are as under:
Section |
Exemption to | Income |
10(15)(i) | All assessees | Interest, premium on redemption, or other payment on notified securities, bonds, certificates, and deposits, etc. (subject to notified conditions and limits) |
10(15)(iib) | Individual/HUF | Interest on notified Capital Investment Bonds notified prior to 1-6-2002 |
10(15)(iic) | Individual/HUF | Interest on notified Relief Bonds |
10(15)(iid) | Individual – NRI/ nominee or survivor of NRI/individual to whom bonds have been gifted by NRI |
Interest on notified bonds (notified prior to 1-6-2002) purchased in foreign exchange (subject to certain conditions) |
10(15)(iii) | Issue Department of Central Bank of Ceylon |
Interest on securities |
10(15)(iiia) | Bank incorporated abroad | Interest on deposits made with scheduled bank with approval of RBI |
10(15)(iiib) | Nordic Invstment Bank | Interest payable to Nordic Investment Bank |
10(15)(iiic) | European Investment Bank | 10(15)(iiic) Interest payable to the European Investment Bank on loan granted by it in pursuance of framework- agreement dated 25-11-1993 for financial corporation between Central Government and that bank |
10(15)(iv)(a) | All assessees who have lent money, etc., from sources outside India | Interest received from Government or from local authority on moneys lent to it before 1-6-2001 or debts owed by it before 1-6-2001, from sources outside India |
10(15)(iv)(b) | Approved foreign financial institution | Interest received from industrial undertaking in India on moneys lent to it under a loan agreement entered into before 1-6-2001 |
10(15)(iv)(c) | All assessees who have lent such money, or in favour of whom such debt has been incurred |
Interest at approved rate received from Indian industrial undertaking on moneys lent or debt incurred before 1-6- 2001 in a foreign country in respect of purchase outside India of raw materials, components or capital plant and machinery, subject to certain limits and conditions |
10(15)(iv)(d) | All assessees who have lent such moneys |
Interest received at approved rate from specified financial institutions in India on moneys lent from sources outside India before 1-6-2001 |
10(15)(iv)(e) | All assessees who have lent such moneys |
Interest received at approved rate from other Indian financial institutions or banks on moneys lent for specified purposes from sources outside India before 1- 6-2001 under approved loan agreement |
10(15)(iv)(f) | All assessees who
have lent such |
Interest received at approved rate from Indian industrial undertaking on moneys lent in foreign currency from sources outside India under loan agreement approved before 1-6-2001 |
10(15)(iv)(fa) | Non-resident or
individual/HUF who is not ordinarily |
Interest payable by scheduled bank, on deposits in foreign currency when acceptance of such deposits by bank is approved by RBI |
10(15)( iv)(g) | All assessees who have lent such moneys |
Interest received at approved rate, from Indian public companies eligible for deduction under section 36(1)(viii) and formed with main object of providing long-term housing finance, on moneys lent in foreign currency from sources outside India under loan agreement approved before 1-6-2003 |
10(15)( iv)(h) | All assessees | Interest received from any public sector company in respect of notified bonds or debentures and subject to certain conditions |
10(15)( iv)(i) | Individual – Employee of Central Government/State Government/Public sector company | Interest received from Government on deposits in notified scheme out of moneys due on account of retirement |
10(15)(v) | Welfare Commissioner, Bhopal Gas Victims, Bhopal | Interest on securities held in Reserve Bank’s SGL A/c No. SL/DH-048 and Deposits made after 31-3-1994 for benefit of victims of Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster held in such account with RBI or with notified public sector bank |
10(15)(vi) | All assessees | Interest on Gold Deposit Bonds issued under the Gold Deposit Scheme, 1999 or deposit certificates issued under the Gold Monetisation Scheme, 2015 |
10(15)(vii) | All assessees | 10(15)(vii) Interest on notified bonds issued by a local authority/State Pooled Finance Entity |
10(15)(viii) | Non-resident or person who is not ordinarily resident | Interest on deposit made on or after 1-4-2005 in an Offshore Banking Unit referred to in section 2(u) of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 |
10(15)(ix) | Non-resident |
Interest payable by a unit located in an International Financial Services Centre in respect of monies borrowed by it on or after the 1st day of September, 2019. |