Guides
Every guide and tool, organized by tax
All 33 live pages on taxrate.in, grouped by topic: hubs, rate tables, calculators and short updates. Everything here links to a working page; planned pieces sit in their own clearly marked list at the end.
Income tax
Slabs, regimes and the 1961-to-2025 Act transition.
Both regimes, every band, surcharge and the ₹12 lakh zero-tax line, with the calculator built in.
The exact break-even for your income and deductions, computed rather than hand-waved.
Type any 1961-Act section and get its 2025-Act home, including sections that split, merged or vanished.
Last year's slabs for belated and revised returns, kept live because filings look back.
Two years back, for updated returns and old notices.
Direct answers for incomes from ₹5 lakh to ₹1 crore, one page per income level.
Your TY 2026-27 bill under both regimes: rebate, surcharge, cess and which regime wins.
One number in, one answer out: is your income inside the ₹12 lakh tax-free line?
Which of the three HRA limits caps your exemption, and by how much.
CTC to monthly take-home: tax, PF and professional tax, line by line.
What your years of service are worth on exit, and how much of it is tax-free.
The rebate ceiling and the standard deduction, rendered live from the rates database.
TDS and TCS
Deduction rates, thresholds and the Section 392-393 payment codes.
Every section, rate and threshold in one sortable, searchable, downloadable table.
10% professional, 2% technical, ₹50,000 threshold, with a calculator and rate history.
1% or 2% by payee type, the ₹30,000 / ₹1,00,000 double threshold, transporter carve-out.
10% on premises, 2% on machinery, and the ₹50,000-a-month line that moved in 2025.
2% above ₹20,000, and the 2024 rate cut your old invoices may still reflect.
When banks deduct 10% on FD interest, and the ₹50,000 / ₹1,00,000 senior-citizen thresholds.
The short version of 194J, with figures that update themselves from the database.
GST
The three-rate structure in force since September 2025.
What moved from the old 12% and 28% slabs, registration thresholds, and who pays 40%.
Capital gains and investments
What selling assets costs, by asset and holding period.
Equity, property, gold, debt funds, unlisted shares and crypto: the full post-July-2024 matrix.
The 30% flat tax and 1% TDS on your trades, and why losses set off against nothing.
NRI taxation
Residency day counts, account taxation and treaty relief.
Residential status as a six-step decision flow, Section 195 TDS, treaty rates for six countries, and property-sale rules.
Property and stamp duty
The state-level costs of buying, and how they feed back into income tax.
Base rates, women's concessions, metro cess and a worked ₹80 lakh Mumbai example, every row linked to its state portal.
What the interest and principal on your loan save you, regime by regime.
Business and freelance income
Presumptive schemes and the trader's compliance math.
Declared-profit tax under the 44AD and 44ADA successors, versus keeping books.
Derivatives turnover computed the audit way, and whether you cross the audit line.
Filing and compliance
Deadlines, forms and the machinery around a return.
ITR, advance tax instalments and the monthly TDS calendar on one page.
Two questions, one answer: ITR-1, 2, 3 or 4 for your income mix.
Your four instalment amounts, and the interest a missed date racks up.
Tax year, marginal relief, AIS, payment codes: the terms this site uses, defined.
Short posts whose figures render live from the rates database.
How figures are sourced and verified, what the dagger (†) means, and the public correction log.
Planned, not yet live
These are in the pipeline and land anchored by a working tool, not prose alone. No dates promised.
- F&O traders: turnover, audit and ITR-3, start to finish
- Freelancers under the 44ADA successor: the presumptive playbook
- Filing FY 2025-26 under the old Act while living under the new one
- HRA proofs that survive scrutiny