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Source: Live Mint In Budget 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that taxpayers with income upto ₹12 lakh do not need to pay any income tax. Aside from this, salaried taxpayers will be entitled to take an additional benefit of no tax by virtue of ₹75,000 standard deduction. Notably, these changes will come into effect from April 1…
Source: Live Mint About 83.9 million Indians have filed income tax returns (ITRs) for financial year 2023-24 (FY24) as of December 2024. Of these, only 28.2 million (or 34%) paid tax, while the remaining 55.7 million (66%) had zero tax liability. This data was released by the finance ministry in a response to queries during…
Source: Live Mint After receiving the cabinet nod last week, new income tax law is set to be tabled in the Parliament this week in the ongoing budget session. This is seen as a historic bill which will replace the current legislation which was enacted way back in 1961. Why is there a need for the new…
Source: Live Mint In the past several years, a number of big and small changes have been made in the Income Tax Act, 1961. Its fallout is that an array of complexities, albeit unwittingly, have crept into it. The new income tax law, conversely, is likely to have them removed simply because it is a fresh…
Source: Live Mint In Budget 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman revised the income slabs under the new tax regime, thus offering relief to the middle-class taxpayers. Now, there is no income tax payable for those earning up to ₹12 lakh. However, if you have seen the tax slabs, you must have noticed that there is…
Source: Live Mint In 2020, the Government of India introduced a new tax regime that offered concessional tax rates while scrapping most of the deductions and exemptions offered under the old tax regime. Most small taxpayers were – until then – accustomed to claiming exemptions and deductions against the investments they made during the financial…
Source: Live Mint Budget 2025 introduced a number of changes including the new tax slab rates under the new tax regime wherein taxpayers are not supposed to pay any income tax up to ₹12 lakh a year. This has undoubtedly made the new tax regime quite tempting for the middle-class taxpayers. In FY 2023-24, around 74 percent…
Source: Live Mint An important piece of law – encapsulating 298 sections – which determines the major sources of income for the fifth largest economy in the world was passed in 1961. In the next 64 years, the Income Tax Act has undergone a flurry of changes almost every year. From tweaks in the tax rates…
Source: Live Mint In the Union Budget for 2022-23, India’s finance ministry introduced the concept of updated tax returns to promote voluntary tax compliance. At the time, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that its purpose was to motivate taxpayers to voluntarily disclose any income omitted in their original tax filings. Three years on, this initiative…
Source: Live Mint In case you forgot to report some income while filing tax returns anytime in the past four fiscal years, Budget 2025 has good news. The timeline to file an updated income tax return has been increased to four years from two years starting April 2025. Of course, an updated ITR can only…
