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Tax Exemption: Withdrawals made from the National Savings Scheme by individuals on or after 29 August, 2024, will be exempt from tax. [ 5 ] Extension of Time-Limit to File Income Tax Returns : The deadline to file updated returns has increased from two to four years.
Reducing the earlier six payable slabs for computing individual income tax to five in the New Tax Regime, the Finance Minister proposed higher threshold limit of ₹3 lakh from existing ₹2.5 lakh for taxpayers. [17] new Slab The implementation of improved limits in tax slabs is said to provide significant relief to taxpayers under the new regime.
The qualifying age limit for senior citizens has been lowered from 60 years to 65 years and increased the current exemption limit under two categories. Category −1 – Age of Individual – 60 years or more but less than 80 years at any time during the previous year. The basic exemption limit is increased from ₹ 240,000 to ₹ 250,000.
Exemption limit: As specified in Part III of I Schedule 193: Interest on securities: Subject to provisions: 10% 194A: Other interest: Banks – ₹10,000 (under age 60); ₹ 50,000 (over 60). All other interest – ₹5,000: 10% 194B: Lottery winnings ₹10,000: 30% 194BB: Horse-racing winnings ₹10,000: 30% 194C: Payment to resident contractors
India faces more difficulties in proliferating its income tax than a country like China, who subjects 20% of its population, because there is an emphatically low amount of formal wage earners. [27] Even though India's income tax was instituted in 1922 by the British, their tax history explains their high degree of tax delinquency today. [27]
Basic allowance in Germany, which is €9,408 in 2020. [3] Income tax threshold in France, which was €6,088 in 2012. The standard deduction in the US, which was $12,000 in 2018 for a single person. Basic personal amount in Canada, which was C$11,809 in 2018. [4] Tax-free threshold in Australia, which was A$18,200 in 2023–24. [5] [6]
But tax exemption limit has been increased to ₹ 250,000 (US$2,900) from ₹ 200,000 (US$2,300) for those below the age of 60. Income tax exemption limit for senior citizens has been raised to ₹ 300,000 (US$3,500). Investment limit under Section 80C has also been increased to ₹ 150,000 (US$1,700) from the current ₹ 100,000 (US$1,200).
Increase of personal income tax exemption limit from ₹ 2.25 lakh to ₹ 2.40 lakh for senior citizens, from ₹ 1.80 lakh to ₹ 1.90 lakh for women tax payers and from ₹ 1.50 lakh to ₹ 1.60 lakh for all other categories of individual taxpayers. Increase of the deduction under section 80-DD to ₹ 1 lakh from ₹ 75,000.