The Union Funds 2025 has given an awesome aid to the middle-class tax payers by asserting discount in tax slab fee and hike in tax rebate. This hike ensures that these incomes as much as Rs 12 lakh may have zero tax legal responsibility for the Monetary 12 months 2025-26 (AY 2026-27).
Is that this new proposal going to have vital affect on the tax paying people? What per centage of tax-payers are going to learn with this hike in tax rebate?
Allow us to undergo the necessary and related knowledge supplied by the Revenue Tax Division on this regard!
9 out of 10 particular person tax payers might 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 out there 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 beneath desk has the small print in regards to 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 Complete 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 |
| Complete | 7,54,61,286 |
* Gross Complete Revenue is the earnings earlier than chapter VI-A deduction as computed within the “Computation of complete earnings” schedule of return of earnings.
* The “Common Gross Complete Revenue” is the typical Gross Complete Revenue inside the worth vary slab i.e. “Sum of Gross Complete Revenue” divided by complete variety of returns inside the worth vary slab. Gross Complete Revenue is the earnings earlier than chapter VI-A deduction as computed within the “Computation of complete earnings” schedule of return of earnings.
- Almost 7.5 crore people filed their Revenue Tax Returns in the course of the evaluation yr 2023-24. Out of this, almost 6.3 crore people reported an earnings of lower than Rs 10 lakh.
- Round 91% of the filed ITRs fall underneath the typical gross complete earnings of Rs 12,05,000.
- This successfully signifies that 9 out of 10 particular person taxpayers might now pay zero earnings tax w.e.f FY 2025-26. It is a vital aid to the Indian middle-class tax payers!
- Despite the fact that the brand new tax aid proposal is on regular earnings solely and incomes like capital good points 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 good points, 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)