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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicIncome Tax

Topic: Income Tax

Lower income tax rates but no deductions — Modi govt creates optional second tax system

Taxpayers will have to forego Rs 1.5 lakh savings deduction and Rs 2 lakh interest deduction on home loans, among others, to avail new income tax rates.

Cutting income tax is not the fix Indian economy needs. It’s slashing GST rates

Tax officials will try and collect more taxes to meet their optimistic targets. But that will have a further negative effect on consumption demand.

Illegal cash transactions are on the rise, despite Modi govt’s anti-black money laws

Income tax department tells Parliament it has unearthed 1,421 cases worth Rs 2,101 crore in FY2019-20 so far, up from 1,110 cases involving Rs 1,015 crore for 2018-19.

Cutting income tax and raising GST makes no sense. Both need to fall together

Before govt decides to do either, it needs to take a view about the macroeconomic picture. Is this a time for fiscal expansion, or for fiscal consolidation?

Tax collected until September is just 37% of full-year target — lowest since 2014-15

According to the Controller General of Accounts, tax collection until September is 2.6% lower than last year — a sign that slowdown is affecting govt revenues.

Modi govt considering cutting income tax and scrapping exemptions

The tax relief measures hope to boost demand and are likely to be part of the union budget due to be presented in February.

Flutter in Kashmir media as J&K govt seeks income tax data from editors of local papers

The state government described the demand as part of an annual exercise, but editors said it had caught them by surprise.

IT dept raids Karnataka Congress leader Parameshwara’s premises after close aide found hanging

G. Parameshwara's confidant Ramesh allegedly committed suicide days after being grilled by IT officials amid raids on the former Karnataka deputy CM's premises.

Uttar Pradesh cabinet decides to amend law exempting CM, ministers from paying income tax

Currently, the Uttar Pradesh Ministers' Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous Act, 1981 puts the burden of paying ministers' taxes on the state govt.

Indian govt can make taxes look good – by taxing bad behaviour, like honking

We can tax other bads too. Like air pollution, water pollution, parking on public roads and so on. We could call it the Bads and Disservices Tax.

On Camera

Hyderabad is no longer the better Bengaluru. Our roads are flooding and full of traffic

I wonder how the current government thinks it can talk about building ‘Future City’ in Hyderabad when even the present city itself is barely functioning.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.