The Union Funds 2025 has given an important aid to the middle-class tax payers by asserting discount in tax slab price and hike in tax rebate. This hike ensures that these incomes as much as Rs 12 lakh can have zero tax legal responsibility for the Monetary 12 months 2025-26 (AY 2026-27).
Is that this new proposal going to have important affect on the tax paying people? What per centage of tax-payers are going to profit with this hike in tax rebate?
Allow us to undergo the necessary and related knowledge offered by the Revenue Tax Division on this regard!
9 out of 10 particular person tax payers could now have NIL earnings tax legal responsibility
Yearly, the IT division publishes the statistical knowledge on the Revenue Tax Returns filed for the respective Evaluation Years. The IT returns knowledge for the Evaluation 12 months 2023-24 was revealed in June 2024 and is on the market at earnings tax division official web site. (The Revenue Tax Return statistics for AY 2024-25 will likely be out there after March 2025.)
As per this knowledge, round 7.5 crore particular person tax assessees have filed their earnings tax returns for the Evaluation 12 months 2023-24. The under desk has the small print concerning the earnings vary, variety of returns that had been filed, common gross earnings for the given earnings vary and the cumulative per centage of the ITRs that had been filed.
| Revenue Vary (in INR) | No of ITRs | Common Gross Whole Revenue (in Lakh INR) |
Cumulative % |
|---|---|---|---|
| < 0 | – | – | – |
| = 0 | 214,914 | – | 0.2848 |
| 0 and <=1,50,000 | 31,94,597 | 0.71 | 4.5182 |
| 150,000 and <= 2,00,000 | 13,69,529 | 1.76 | 6.3331 |
| 2,00,000 and <=2,50,000 | 26,57,722 | 2.32 | 9.8551 |
| 2,50,000 and <= 3,50,000 | 56,44,045 | 3.03 | 17.3345 |
| 3,50,000 and <= 4,00,000 | 39,53,743 | 3.75 | 22.5739 |
| 4,00,000 and <= 4,50,000 | 59,32,002 | 4.26 | 30.4349 |
| 4,50,000 and <= 5,00,000 | 1,25,11,491 | 4.81 | 47.0149 |
| 5,00,000 and <= 5,50,000 | 60,86,356 | 5.22 | 55.0804 |
| 5,50,000 and <= 9,50,000 | 2,04,02,971 | 6.99 | 82.1181 |
| 9,50,000 and <= 10,00,000 | 10,60,450 | 9.75 | 83.5234 |
| 10,00,000 and <= 15,00,000 | 62,28,002 | 12.05 | 91.7766 |
| 15,00,000 and <= 20,00,000 | 24,27,058 | 17.16 | 94.9929 |
| 20,00,000 and <= 25,00,000 | 11,92,990 | 22.25 | 96.5739 |
| 25,00,000 and <= 50,00,000 | 18,43,287 | 33.87 | 99.0165 |
| 50,00,000 and <= 1,00,00,000 | 5,14,814 | 67.51 | 99.6988 |
| 1,00,00,000 and <=5,00,00,000 | 2,10,693 | 177.68 | 99.9780 |
| 5,00,00,000 and <=10,00,00,000 | 10,386 | 679.58 | 99.9917 |
| 10,00,00,000 and <=25,00,00,000 | 4,438 | 1,486.75 | 99.9976 |
| 25,00,00,000 and <=50,00,00,000 | 1,077 | 3,425.89 | 99.9990 |
| 50,00,00,000 and <=100,00,00,000 | 436 | 6,940.28 | 99.9996 |
| 100,00,00,000 and <=500,00,00,000 | 262 | 18,344.57 | 100 |
| 500,00,00,000 | 23 | 79,650.91 | 100 |
| Whole | 7,54,61,286 |
* Gross Whole Revenue is the earnings earlier than chapter VI-A deduction as computed within the “Computation of whole earnings” schedule of return of earnings.
* The “Common Gross Whole Revenue” is the common Gross Whole Revenue throughout the worth vary slab i.e. “Sum of Gross Whole Revenue” divided by whole variety of returns throughout the worth vary slab. Gross Whole Revenue is the earnings earlier than chapter VI-A deduction as computed within the “Computation of whole earnings” schedule of return of earnings.
- Practically 7.5 crore people filed their Revenue Tax Returns in the course of the evaluation 12 months 2023-24. Out of this, practically 6.3 crore people reported an earnings of lower than Rs 10 lakh.
- Round 91% of the filed ITRs fall below the common gross whole earnings of Rs 12,05,000.
- This successfully signifies that 9 out of 10 particular person taxpayers could now pay zero earnings tax w.e.f FY 2025-26. This can be a important aid to the Indian middle-class tax payers!
- Though the brand new tax aid proposal is on regular earnings solely and incomes like capital beneficial properties are taxable at totally different charges. Nonetheless this can be a nice aid to the assessees, contemplating the much less variety of ITRs with capital beneficial properties, as one of many sources of incomes.
- The central authorities sees a income lack of round Rs 1 lakh crore after the implementation of the revised earnings tax slab charges.
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(Submit first revealed on 03-Feb-2025) (Reference : incometaxindia.gov.in)
