Income Tax Slabs for FY 2024-25 & AY 2025-26 (New & Old Regime Tax Rates)

No, the new tax regime does not allow many deductions and exemptions which are otherwise available in the old tax regime. Deductions u/s 80C cannot be claimed if the taxpayer is opting for a New tax regime

Taxes are collected by the Government through three means: 

• Voluntary payment by taxpayers through various designated Banks. For example, Advance Tax and Self Assessment Tax payments,
• Taxes deducted at source [TDS] and 
• Taxes collected at source [TCS].

Yes, there are separate slab rates under the old tax regimes. However under the new tax regimes, there is no categories as such.

Even if your income is below the exemption limit, you must file your ITR if any of these conditions apply to you.

No, the due date for all the taxpayers is not the same. For individual taxpayers for whom tax audit is not applicable, the due date is 31st July of the assessment year unless extended by the government.

Section 87A is a legal provision which allows for tax rebates under the Income Tax Act of 1961. The section, which was inserted through the Finance Act of 2013, provides tax relief for individuals earning below a specified limit. Section 87 A provides that anyone who is residing in India and whose income does not exceed Rs 5,00,000 is eligible to claim a rebate. Thus full income tax rebate is available to individuals with less than Rs 5 Lakh of total taxable income under the old regime, whereas under the new tax regime, the income limit is Rs. 7,00,000. This rebate is applicable only to individuals and not companies, etc and is calculated before adding the health and educational cess of 4 %.

Yes, IT slab rates can be changed by the government. If there are changes in IT slab rates for the financial year, then they are introduced in the Budget and presented in Parliament.

The Income-tax law has two important terms: (i) Previous year and (ii) Assessment year. It is extremely important for determining the taxpayer's income and tax payable amount.        
The previous year is the year in which the income is earned which typically starts on 1st April and ends on 31st March. Whereas, the year immediately following the previous year (1st April to 31st March) is known as ‘Assessment Year’.           
For example, the current previous year is from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024, i.e. FY 2023-24. The corresponding assessment year is 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025, i.e. AY 2024-25.

To submit your income tax return online, log on to either the income tax e-filing portal or you can also e-file through Cleartax. For e-filing through the income tax portal, log in to www.incometax.gov.in. You can also download the offline JSON utility and file the ITR. Remember to verify the return within 30 days of filing the ITR. ITR filing is incomplete without verification, failure to verify the return will be deemed that you have not filed the return at all.        
Please click here to read the step-by-step guide on how to e-file ITR on the income tax e-filing portal.

Income tax law has prescribed a basic exemption limit for individuals up to which the taxpayers are not required to pay taxes. Such a limit is different for different categories of taxpayers under old tax regime. Individual below 60 years of age are not required to pay tax upto the income limit of Rs 2.5 Lakh. Individuals above 60 years but less than 80 years of age are not required to pay tax upto Rs 3 lakh of income. Individuals above 80 years are not required to pay tax upto Rs 5 lakh of income. The basic exemption limit for all the individuals under the new tax regime is Rs 3 lakh, irrespective of age.

The surcharge is a tax on tax. Hence surcharge is calculated on the tax payable and not on the income earned. For example, if you have an income of Rs 1000 with 30% tax of Rs. 300, if the income is subject to surcharge then 10% surcharge would be levied on tax of Rs. 300 i.e. Rs 30. Surcharge is levied at different rates i.e 

• 10% of income tax if total income is > 50 lakh, 
• 15% of income tax if total income is > 1 crore, 
• 25% of income tax if total income is > 2 crores,
• 37% of Income tax if total income > Rs.5 crore 

The highest surcharge rate of 37% has been reduced to 25% under the new tax regime. 

Individual above the age of 60 years is regarded as a senior citizen whereas an individual above 80 years is regarded as a super senior citizen for the purpose of income tax. Senior citizens and super senior citizens have been provided higher tax exemption limits and specific benefits by the income tax law in order to provide some relief.

The income tax payment facility has been migrated from OLTAS to the 'e-Pay Tax' facility of the e-filing portal. You can refer to this step-by-step guide for making your tax payments.

Any income which is generated from agriculture or its allied activities will not be taxed. However, it will be considered for determining the tax rate while calculating tax on any non-agricultural income that you may have.

No tax is payable since tax rebate is available upto Rs. 5 lakh under old regime and Rs. 7lakh under new regime.

No tax is payable under the new tax regime up to Rs. 7 lakh. 

New Regime: 62,400

Old Regime: 1,17,000

New Regime: 1,56,000

Old Regime: 2,73,000

New Regime: 3,12,000

Old Regime: 4,29,000

These taxes have been calculated based on the assumption that they are Net Taxable Income after deducting all deductions. However, you may add your exact income details on this simplified income tax calculator to find out the exact tax payable. If you are calculating for FY 2023-24, make sure to select the correct financial year.

Taxpayers have the freedom to select the tax regimes, if one needs to opt for the old regime and claim deductions, exemptions, and losses must file their income tax returns by opting out of the new regime.

For employees, the choice needs to be made at the beginning of the year and can be modified at the time of ITR filing. However, if you are engaged in business or profession, the option to switch to the Old Tax regime is available only once in your lifetime. We recommend that you carefully evaluate your tax outgo under both regimes and then select the one which is most beneficial to you.

The income tax return needs to be verified post submission. It is applicable for all types of return original, belated, revised or updated return. It is mandatory to do verify the return within 30 days from the date of filing. Failure to verify the return will be deemed that you have not filed the return at all. One can do the verification either by physically by appending the signature on the ITR acknowledgement form (ITR V) manually and sending it to CPC, Bengaluru by courier or post OR electronically via Aadhaar OTP or EVC (electronic verification code) or Digital signature during or after the submission of Income tax return.

Yes, the standard deduction is allowed under the new tax regime for FY 2023-24. However, it was not allowed as a deduction for FY 2022-23. 

One can claim a few selective deductions under the new tax regime for FY 2023-24, such as a standard deduction of Rs.50,000, interest on Home Loan u/s 24b on let-out property, employer’s contribution to NPS u/s 80CCD, Contributions to Agniveer Corpus Fund u/s 80CCH, Deduction on Family Pension Income (lower of 1/3rd of actual pension or 15,000).

No, HRA exemption u/s10(13A) is not allowed in new tax regime. Along with that most claimed exemptions are also NOT allowed such as Leave Travel Allowance (LTA), Exemption on voluntary retirement 10(10C), Exemption on gratuity u/s 10(10), Exemption on Leave encashment u/s 10(10AA), Daily Allowance, Transport Allowance for a specially-abled person, Conveyance Allowance etc,

There are differential process to opt in for tax regimes between FY 2022-23 and FY 2023-24.

For 2022-23 - default regime is old tax regime

If the total income does not include profit and gains from business & profession and new tax regime needs to be opted, then one must file Form 10IE (online form from Income Tax portal) before the submission of income tax return by clicking Yes for “Do you opt for sec 115BAC(1)?”, else one must file income tax return only without the requirement to file Form 10IE. In both the scenarios return must be submitted within the due date.

For 2023-24 - default regime is new tax regime

If the total income does not include profit and gains from business & profession and new old regime needs to be opted, then one must file Form 10IEA (online form from Income Tax portal) before the submission of income tax return by clicking Yes for “Do you opt out from sec 115BAC(1A)?”, else one must file income tax return only without the requirement to file Form 10IEA. In both the scenarios return must be submitted within the due date.

Form 10-IEA must be filed before the due date for opting to pay taxes under the old tax regime.

If an individual forgets to complete the submission of Form 10-IEA before or during the filing of the ITR, they will be unable to choose the old tax regime. The delayed submission of the form of failure to submit means that the income tax department will compute tax as per the new tax regime.

Yes. The new tax regime has been revised in the Budget 2024 for FY 24-25. 

Budget 2024 has proposed a revision in the Tax Slab for new tax regime for FY 24-25. As a result, taxpayers choosing the new tax regime stand to gain as much as Rs.17,500.

No, According to the Union Budget 2024 the slab rate under the old tax regime remains unchanged for the FY 24-25.