As you know government has announced budget on 1 Feb 2020
This budget is applicable for next financial year (Financial Year 2020-21 or Assessment Year 2021-22)
Here we provide you easy summary for the same covering important topics.You can also download it in pdf from here
New Optional income Tax Rate for Individuals
Govt has introduce new income tax rates for individuals under Section 115BAC
This is applicable for Financial year 2020-21 (Assessment year 2021-22)
How to calculate using new Slab rate
New Income Tax Rate is Optional
If the taxpayer opts for new scheme, he will not get benefit of standard deduction, loss from house property, Chapter VI A deduction like 80C, 80D, etc
If Old Rate Claimed | If New Rate Claimed |
Standard Deduction of 50000 | No Standard Deduction |
80C, 80D etc Benefit | No 80C, 80D etc |
Loss from House Property Max 2 Lacs | No Loss from House Property |
Surcharge Rate for Individuals Changed in case having Income from Sale of Shares
Currently, Surcharge Rate for Individuals is
Income Upto |
Surcharge Rate |
Upto 50 Lacs |
0% |
50 lac- 1 Crore |
10% |
1 Crore -2 Crore |
15% |
2 Crore - 5 Crore |
25% |
> 5 Crore |
37% |
In current year,Surcharge Rate has been kept same
But an exception has been provided for Income under Section 111A (Short Term Capital gain on sale of
shares and Section 112A on long term capital gain on shares)
Max Surcharge Rate on them cant be more than 12%
New Section 194O on TDS Deducted by E commerce Operators
Suppose a dealer sells his goods oline through E commerce operators like Flipkart Amazon
Customer pays Flipkart/Amazon and Amazon pays to Dealer after deducting its charges
Now Amazon will also deduct 1% TDS if amount paid is more than 5 lacs
TDS Section |
Description |
Cutoff |
Rate |
Section 194O |
TDS on Payments by Ecommerce Operators to E Commerce Participants |
500000 |
1% |
TDS if no Pan Number for Section 194O is 5%
Earlier |
Now |
Normal Sections (194C/194J/194H) |
Normal Sections (194C/194J/194H) |
If No Pan Number |
If No Pan Number |
TDS Deducted @ 20% |
TDS Deducted @ 20% |
|
New Section 194O |
|
If No Pan No |
|
TDS Deducted @ 5% |
Due date for ITR and Audit report Made Different
Earlier for those business whose accounts were required to be audited
Due date for Audit and ITR was same (30 Sep extended to 31 Oct)
Now due date for both have been made different
Audit Report had to be filed one month before ITR Due date
Earlier | Now | ||
Due Date for Audit Business | |||
Tax Audit Report | 30 Sep 31 Oct | Tax Audit Report | 30-Sep |
ITR | 30 Sep 31 Oct | ITR | 31-Oct |
Now 2 Rates for TDS under Section 194J
Earlier there was only 1 rate under Section 194J of 10%
Now 2 TDS Rates were deducted under Section 194J
10% for Professional Services
2% for Other than Professional Services
Earlier | Now | ||
TDS Under Section 194J of | TDS Under Section 194J of | ||
Professional | 10% | Professional | 10% |
Technical | Other than Professional | 2% | |
Royalty | |||
Non Compete Fees |
Turnover Limit for Section 44AD
Earlier
If turnover of a business uptp 2 crore
it can opt for presumptive income scheme under 44AD
He has to pay Tax @ 8% for Bank turnover and 6% for Cash Turnover
Now
In this scheme, turnover limit is increased to 5 Crore provided
Total cash receipts are not more than 5% of total receipts
and
Total cash payments are not more than 5% of total payments
Earlier | Now |
If turnover upto 2 cr | If turnover upto 2 cr |
8%/6% is profit |
8%/6% is profit (for Normal business) |
If turnover upto 5 cr 8%/6% is profit Max 5% cash transactions |
Who is required to Deduct TDS
TDS is now to be deducted in case turnover > 1Crore in case of proprietorship business instead of 2 Crore earlier
Earlier
TDS was required to be deducted if deductor is
- Company (Always)
- Partnership (Always)
- Proprietorship (If last year audit was compulsory)
Audit was compulsory if turnover > 2crore in case of business and gross receipts > 50 lacs in case of professions
Now
TDS is required to be deducted if deductor is
- Company (Always)
- Partnership (Always)
- Proprietorship (If last turnover was more than 1 Crore in case of business and 50 lacs in case of professionals)
Dividend Distribution Tax Abolished
If Companies wanted to distribute its profit (dividend) to it shareholders, it had to pay dividend distribution tax
Rate of DDT was 15% + Surcharge + Cess = Effective 20.56%
This was exempt in the hands of shareholder upto 1000000
Now DDT has been abolished and this dividend is taxable in hands of shareholder
Earlier | Now |
Companies paid DDT | No DDT |
Shareholder Dividend Income was exempt upto 10 lacs |
Shareholder Dividend Income is taxable |
TDS Rate on Dividend Distribution was |
Companies have to now Deduct TDS on this dividend income under Section 194 if Dividend more than 2500 5000 |
Faceless Scrutiny and appeal in Income Tax
Earlier
Scrutiny of Income Tax Return was done online
However for Appeal. We had to visit Income Tax Department and file appeal manually
Now, even appeal is done online and no need to visit income Tax Department
Earlier |
Now |
Scrutiny Online |
Scrutiny and Appeal both online |
Appeal Manual |
Instant Pan Card Generation from Aadhar Card
Earlier,Pan Card is to be manually applied
Various documents had to be submitted like Photograph, Address proof and age proof
Whole procedure used to take at least 7 days
Now, Pan Card is Instantly Generated from Adhar card and no more documents are required
Earlier |
Now |
Pan Card Documents Required |
Pan Card Documents Required |
Address Proof |
Adhar Card (Instant Generation) |
Age Proof |
|
Photo |
New TCS Rates Introduced
On Certain Transactions, Seller has to collect TCS (Tax Collected at Source) from the buyer
like Sale of Scrap etc
Following New Services have been added In TCS Chart in Section 206C
Transaction |
TCS Rate |
Cutoff |
Remittance out of India by a Money changer |
5% |
7 lacs |
Sale of Overseas Tour package by Tour Operator |
5% |
- |
Sale of Any Goods if turnover of Seller is more than 10 Crores |
0.10% |
50 Lacs |
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