Section 26 — Cases and circumstances in which a payment or aggregate of payments exceeding ten thousand rupees may be made to a person in a day, otherwisethan by specified banking and online mode or through such other electronic mode as provided in rule 48

(1) No disallowance under section 36(4) shall be made and no payment shall be deemed to be the profits and gains of business or profession under section36(5) where a payment or aggregate of payments made to a person in a day, otherwise than by a specified banking or online mode or through such otherelectronic mode as provided in rule 48, exceeds ten thousand rupees, in the following cases and circumstances:—
(a) where the payment is made to—(i) the Reserve Bank of India or any banking company as defined in clause (c) of section 5 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949); or(ii) the State Bank of India or any subsidiary bank as defined in section 2 of the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959 (38 of 1959); or(iii) any co-operative bank or land mortgage bank; or(iv) any primary agricultural credit society or any primary credit society as defined under section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of1949); or(v) the Life Insurance Corporation of India established under section 3 of the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (31 of 1956);(b) where the payment is made to the Government and, under the rules framed by it, such payment is required to be made in legal tender;
(c) where the payment is made by—(i) any letter of credit arrangements through a bank; or(ii) a mail or telegraphic transfer through a bank; or(iii) a book adjustment from any account in a bank to any other account in that or any other bank; or(iv) a bill of exchange made payable only to a bank;(d) where the payment is made by way of adjustment against the amount of any liability incurred by the payee for any goods supplied or services renderedby the assessee to such payee;(e) where the payment is made for the purchase of—(i) agricultural or forest produce; or(ii) the produce of animal husbandry (including livestock, meat, hides and skins) or dairy or poultry farming; or(iii) fish or fish products; or(iv) the products of horticulture or apiculture, to the cultivator, grower or producer of such articles, produce or products;
(f) where the payment is made for the purchase of the products manufactured or processed without the aid of power in a cottage industry, to the producerof such products;(g) where the payment is made in a village or town, which on the date of such payment is not served by any bank, to any person who ordinarily resides, oris carrying on any business, profession or vocation, in any such village or town;(h) where any payment is made to an employee of the assessee or the heir of any such employee, on or in connection with the retirement, retrenchment,resignation, discharge or death of such employee, on account of gratuity, retrenchment compensation or similar terminal benefit and the aggregate ofsuch sums payable to the employee or his heir does not exceed fifty thousand rupees;(i) where the payment is made by an assessee by way of salary to his employee after deducting the income-tax from salary in accordance with theprovisions of section 392, and when such employee—(i) is temporarily posted for a continuous period of fifteen days or more in a place other than his normal place of duty or on a ship; and(ii) does not maintain any account in any bank at such place or ship;(j) where the payment is made by any person to his agent who is required to make payment in cash for goods or services on behalf of such person;
(k) where the payment is made by an authorised dealer or a money changer against purchase of foreign currency or travellers cheques in the normal courseof his business.(2) For the purposes of this rule,—
(a) the term "bank", in clause (c) and clause (g), means any bank, banking company or society referred to in sub-clauses (i) to (iv) of clause (a) andincludes any bank not being a banking company as defined in clause (c) of section 5 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949), whetherincorporated or not, which is established outside India; and(b) "authorised dealer" or "money changer", in clause (k), means a person authorised as an authorised dealer or a money changer to deal in foreigncurrency or foreign exchange under any law in force.