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Benefit on Tax
by vijayan p on Mar 01, 2008 07:12 AM   Permalink | Hide replies

I could not understand when on an income upto 5 lakhs, the old tax is 60000 and new tax is 40000 the benefit amounts to 44000? Could you please explain?

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  RE:Benefit on Tax
by sujith kumar on Mar 01, 2008 07:24 AM   Permalink
We do not pay income for entire 5 lakhs but it is paid in slabs of 1.5 lakhs, 1.5 to 2.5 lakhs 2.5 to 3 lakhs and 3 to 5 lakhs. For these slabs there is a reduction of 4000, 10000 , 10000 and 20000 thus making an overall saving of 44000

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  RE:Benefit on Tax
by Karthikeyan Ranganathan on Mar 01, 2008 07:21 AM   Permalink
add up the benifit column for the 3,00,000 slab and 5,00,000 slab

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Your income tax: How it works now