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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 With the new tax regime becoming increasingly prevalent and more common, taxpayers stand to lose their eligibility to claim most of the exemption and deductions offered under various provisions such as sections 80C, 80D, 80DD and 80G under the old tax regime. Nearly 73 percent of taxpayers have already opted for the new…
Source: Live Mint In 2023, new tax regime became a default regime which means the taxpayers must opt out of the new tax regime to be able to claim tax exemptions given under sections 80C, 80D and 80G, among others. The provision under section 80C enables taxpayers to claim deduction for investing in various financial…
Source: Live Mint New Income Tax Bill: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the long-awaited bill for the new tax code in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, February 13. While the new bill is a significantly shorter version of the Income Tax Act of 1961, it mandates that assessees would have to share their computer “…
Source: Live Mint Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced the Income Tax Bill 2025 in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, 13 February. The much-anticipated new Bill will replace terminology like assessment and the previous year with the easier-to-understand ‘tax year’ as part of a move to simplify language while removing provisos and explanations. The bill is…
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 Tax-saving component of the house rent allowance (HRA) makes the old tax regime more beneficial in some cases. One such case is of married couples, who can use HRA strategically to save tax based on their salary and tax slabs. Also read: Goodbye old tax regime; new regime now more attractive Popular…
Source: Live Mint The new tax regime became a default regime in 2023 but Budget 2025 introduced a higher incentive for taxpayers by allowing zero tax for income upto ₹12 lakh, following which there is an expectation that around 90 percent of taxpayers will opt for it over old tax regime. However, one collateral damage of this…
Source: Live Mint However, the relaxations have reduced the tax advantages of equity investments for small and medium investors, especially those with annual incomes of up to ₹24 lakh. Historically, investors often chose equity investments like arbitrage funds and hybrid funds like balanced advantage funds for their preferential tax treatment compared to regular income. The…
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…
