TMI BlogFinance Minister reduces the tax rate from 10 to 5 per cent for individual income between ₹ 2.5 to ₹ 5 lakh.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Finance Minister reduces the tax rate from 10 to 5 per cent for individual income between ₹ 2.5 to ₹ 5 lakh. - Budget Dated:- 1-2-2017 - News - Finance Minister reduces the tax rate from 10 to 5 per cent for individual income between ₹ 2.5 to ₹ 5 lakh. Finance Minister appeals to all citizens to contribute to Nation Building by making a small payment of 5 per cent tax ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... if their income is falling in this slab. A simple one- page Income Tax Return form for the category of individuals having taxable income upto ₹ 5 lakhs other than business income The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley reduced the rate of taxation from existing 10 per cent to 5 per cent for individual assesses between income of ₹ 2.5 lakhs to ₹ 5 lakhs. This would r ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... educe the tax liability of all persons below ₹ 5 lakh income either to zero (with rebate) or 50 per cent of their existing liability. While presenting the General Budget 2017-18 in the Parliament today, the Union Finance Minister Shri Jaitley said that the present burden of taxation is mainly on honest tax payers and salaried employees who are showing their income correctly. Therefore, po ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... st-demonetisation, there is a legitimate expectation of this class of people to reduce their burden of taxation. The Finance Minister further said that if a nominal rate of taxation is kept for lower slab, many more people will prefer to come within the tax net. The Finance Minister made an appeal to all the citizens of India to contribute to Nation Building by making a small payment of 5 per cent ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... tax if their income is falling in the lowest slab of ₹ 2.5 lakhs to ₹ 5 lakhs. The Union Finance Minister Shri Jaitley said that the Government is trying to bring within tax-net more people who are evading taxes. So, in order to expand tax net, it is decided to have a simple one-page form to be filed as Income Tax Return for the category of individuals having taxable income upto & ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... #8377; 5 lakhs other than business income. Also, a person of this category who files income tax return for the first time would not be subjected to any scrutiny in the first year unless there is specific information available with the Department regarding his high value transaction. In his Budget Speech, the Finance Minister further said that in order not to have duplication of benefit, the exi ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... sting benefit of rebate available to the same group of beneficiaries is being reduced to ₹ 2500, available only to assessees upto income of ₹ 3.5 lakhs. The combined effect of both these measures will mean that there would be zero tax liability for people getting income upto ₹ 3 lakhs per annum. and the tax liability will only be ₹ 2,500 for people with income between ͅ ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 7; 3 and ₹ 3.5 lakhs. While the taxation liability of people with income upto ₹ 5 lakhs is being reduced to half, all the other categories of tax payers in the subsequent slabs will also get a uniform benefit of ₹ 12,500 per person. The total amount of tax foregone on account of this measure is ₹ 15,500 crore. In order to make good some of this revenue loss on account of ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... this relief, a surcharge of 10 per cent of tax payable on categories of individuals whose annual taxable income is between ₹ 50 lakhs and ₹ 1 crore has been proposed. This is likely to give additional revenue of ₹ 2,700 crore. The Finance Minister said that the direct tax proposals for exemptions, etc. would result in revenue loss of ₹ 22,700 crore but after counting fo ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... r revenue gain of ₹ 2,700 crore for additional resource mobilisation proposal, the net revenue loss in direct tax would come to ₹ 20,000 crore. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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