7 Important Facts about Income Tax Calculation

At some point of time, we all have to pay income tax on our income. You can use online Income Tax Calculator to check how much income tax you need to pay. But there are some Facts about Income Tax Calculation that you need to know.

From selecting between Old Tax Regime or New Tax Regime, Tax Rebate in Section 87A to Cess of 4%. These important facts about income tax calculation will help you to plan and save your income tax either with old tax regime or new tax regime.

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Selecting Tax Regime

Since the introduction of New Tax Regime in Budget 2018, you get the option to select between Old Tax Regime and New Tax Regime.

New Tax Regime were introduced with reduced tax slab rates, compared to Old Tax Regime.

It depends on your income and investments, which tax regime is better for you, and there is no best option for an individual.

You can check this article on New Tax Regime to know which which Tax Regime is better for you to save maximum income tax.

Below is the Table of Income Tax Slab Rates for FY 2022-23 for people of age under 60 years:

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Deductions availability in which Regime?

With the introduction of New Tax Regime, since tax slab rates were reduced in new regime and kept same in old regime, the condition of no deductions in new regime was implemented.

So All deduction options to save income tax are available only in Old Tax Regime.

You can only get Tax Rebate under Section 87A in New Tax Regime if your gross income is below 5 Lacs in a financial year (discussed below).

No Standard deduction is available in new tax regime if you are a salaried employee.

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Tax Rebate under Section 87A

Tax Rebate under Section 87A is a type of rebate you get when your taxable income is below Rs. 5 Lacs in financial year.

For Old Tax regime, your taxable income will be calculated by subtracting your total investment deductions from gross salary. This will give you the taxable income on which your income tax will be calculated.

If this taxable income is less than Rs. 5 Lacs in a financial year, you will get maximum tax rebate of Rs. 12,500 according to which your actual income tax will be Rs. 0.

On the other hand, with new tax regime, since you don’t get any deduction options to be claimed apart from standard deduction, your gross income is considered as taxable income on which income tax will be calculated.

If this gross income is below Rs. 5 Lacs in financial year, than you are eligible to claim Tax Rebate under Section 87A.

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Standard Deduction for Salaried Employees

Standard Deduction of Rs. 50,000 is applicable for Salaried Employees and Pensioners for FY 2024-25 in old tax regime. This standard deduction is Rs. 75,000 with new tax regime in FY 2024-25

This is flat deduction available to save income tax.

Standard Deduction is available in both Old Tax Regime and new tax regime to pay your income tax.

So, the first thing you should do if you are salaried or pensioner, is reducing standard deduction from your gross income!

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How Income Tax is same with both Regime?

While calculating income tax with Old and New Tax Regime, we noticed that you pay same income tax on Rs. 6 Lacs income and without any investments in both regime.

Only standard deduction is applied in old tax regime in this case.

Below is the screenshot from our Tax calculator for this example:

Income Tax Calculation on Rs. 6 Lacs income in Fy 2022-23 — Income Tax Calculation on Rs. 6 Lacs income in FY 2022-23

As seen above, you pay Rs. 23,400, irrespective of whether you select Old or New Tax Regime, when you income is Rs. 6 Lacs as Salaried employee and you don’t make any investments.

Cess of 4%

While calculating income tax based on different slab rates, you need to add Cess of 4% after adding taxes from all slab rates.

Cess of 4% is applicable on both tax regime and is kind of tax on income tax. This increases your income tax so you should try to reduce your taxable income as much as possible.

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Surcharge of 10% and 15%

Surcharge is applicable when your income is above Rs. 50 Lacs in a Financial Year.

So if you income is more than Rs. 50 Lacs in Fy, you need to pay additional Surcharge of 10%, which means 10% tax need to be paid extra on your income tax that is already calculated using slab rates and cess.

For income above Rs. 1 crore in FY, this surcharge is 15%.

Conclusion

So to summarize, below is the table on these 7 Facts about Income Tax Calculation:

Sr No.	Facts about Income Tax Calculation
1	Select between old and new regime
2	Most Investment Deductions are only available under old regime
3	Tax rebate under Section 87A
4	Standard Deduction of Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 75,000 in old and new tax regime
5	Income Tax is same on some Income based on the tax slab rates and Investments
6	Cess of 4%
7	Surcharge of 10% and 15%

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