Tax Planning & Tax Saving
Tax Planning & Tax Saving
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Tax Planning & Tax Saving
Most of the people take Tax Saving as Tax Planning. These two things are entirely different from each other. Many employed people don’t know that just saving Tax can make you actually lose wealth in life. Normally people invest in the month of January, February and March to save Tax. Tax planning with comprehensive view of your all the life goals may bring you wealth sooner than otherwise.
Tax Saving
There are many sections in which you can invest to save your Tax, but a few of them are popular among people. These are
Section 80 C
Individuals and HUF can invest up to 1.5 lac under this section. The investments qualify for deduction from income. One can invest in
Provident Fund
►Public Provident Fund
►Life Insurance Plans
►Equity Linked Saving Scheme
►Tax Saving Fixed Deposits
►Senior Citizen’s Savings Scheme
►National Savings Certificate
►Home Loan Principal in EMIs
►Tuition Fee of Kids
Section 80 CCC
► Pension Plans / Pension Policy
Section 80 CCD
►NPS – National Pension Scheme
Section 80 D
Under this section you can avail tax benefit by deducting the premium paid for Medical Insurance, up to 15000 for your family and 20000 for Elder parents.
Section 80 DD
Deduction of Rs. 50,000/- w.e.f. 01.04.2004 in respect of
► Expenditure incurred on medical treatment, (including nursing), training and rehabilitation of handicapped dependent relative.
►Payment or deposit to specified scheme for maintenance of dependent handicapped relative.
Further, if the defendant is a person with severe disability a deduction of Rs. 100,000/- shall be available under this section. The handicapped dependent should be a dependent relative suffering from a permanent disability (including blindness) or mentally retarded, as certified by a specified physician or psychiatrist. Note: A person with ‘severe disability’ means a person with 80% or more of one or more disabilities as outlined in section 56(4) of the ‘Persons with disabilities (Equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation)’ Act.
Section 80 E
Under this section you can avail tax benefit by deducting the interest paid on education loan for yourself and kids for a period of 8 years from the start of repayment.
Section 80 G
Under this section you can avail tax benefit by deducting the amount paid as charity to eligible organizations, up to the limit of 10% of your Adjusted Gross Total Income.
Section 24
Under this section you can avail tax benefit by deducting the interest amount paid in your Home Loan EMIs in the financial year from your total income up to maximum limit of 1.5 lac. If you take loan in the financial year 13 – 14 and the loan size is up to 25 lac, you can get extra benefit of 1 lac deduction of interest.
Myths of Tax Saving
► Tax Saving is always good.
► By Tax Saving money can be saved.
►Money should be invested for Tax Saving.
What is Tax Planning?
There are different provisions given by the Government to plan your finance according to the Tax Planning Rules. This makes you plan in long term and saves large amount of money if planned carefully. THIS IS NOT TAX AVOIDANCE. There are different heads of income, by which your finance can be planned.
Heads of Income
►Salary
►Profit from Business / Profession
►Income from House Property
►Capital Gain
►Income from Other Sources
