Tax credit of Rs 2,000 for persons with income up to Rs 5 lakh

February 28, 2013 01:35 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 11:39 pm IST - New Delhi

Kolkata: The television shop in Kolkata set the Budget Session on all the television displayed on Thusday. Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, proposed the tax credit of Rs. 2,000 for income upto Rs. 5 lakh; Surcharge of 10 per cent for taxable incomes above Rs. 1 crore, Commodity transaction tax for non-agri commodity trading; Tax Deducted at Source to be fixed at 1% on land deals over Rs 50 lakh; 30% excise duty hike on SUVs; 6% excise duty hike on mobiles above Rs. 2,000 with a view of populist budget before the country heading for parliamentary election. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhruy. Feb 28, 2012.

Kolkata: The television shop in Kolkata set the Budget Session on all the television displayed on Thusday. Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, proposed the tax credit of Rs. 2,000 for income upto Rs. 5 lakh; Surcharge of 10 per cent for taxable incomes above Rs. 1 crore, Commodity transaction tax for non-agri commodity trading; Tax Deducted at Source to be fixed at 1% on land deals over Rs 50 lakh; 30% excise duty hike on SUVs; 6% excise duty hike on mobiles above Rs. 2,000 with a view of populist budget before the country heading for parliamentary election. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhruy. Feb 28, 2012.

Giving small relief to tax payers, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday announced a tax credit of Rs 2,000 for persons with income up to Rs 5 lakh.

The proposal, he said, will benefit 1.8 crore tax payers entailing a revenue sacrifice of Rs 3,600 crore.

The other slabs and rates have been kept unchanged in view of constrained economy, he said.

“In a constrained economy, there is little room to raise tax rates or large amounts of additional tax revenues. Equally there is little room to give away tax revenues or the tax base. It is time for prudence, restraint and patience,” Mr. Chidambaram said.

However, he said: “I am inclined to give some relief to tax payers in the first bracket between Rs 2-5 lakh... I propose to provide tax credit of Rs 2,000 to every person who has a total income of up to Rs 5 lakh. 1.8 crore taxpayers are expected to benefit, to the value Rs 3,600 crore.”

As per the existing slabs, tax on income from 2 lakh to 5 lakh is at 10 per cent, up to Rs 10 lakh at 20 per cent and above 10 lakh at 30 per cent.

In the Budget proposals for the next fiscal, Mr. Chidambaram proposed a surcharge of 10 per cent on persons with income of over Rs one crore. The proposal will cover 42,800 individuals and tax entities.

“Even an moderate increase in the level of threshold exemption will mean that hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will go out of the tax net and tax base will be severely eroded,” he said.

KPMG (India) Tax Partner Parizad Sirwalla said: “The overall slabs and tax rates remain same in view of the objective of widening tax base and increasing tax compliance.”

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