Income tax deadline
INCOME TAX RETURN DEADLINE The government mandates that individuals who earn a specified amount of annual income must f ile income tax return (ITR) within a pre-determined due date. For the assessment year 2018-19 (financial year 2017-18), August 31, 2018 is the deadline for individuals to file income tax return. Income tax is levied on individual taxpayers on the basis of a slab system where different tax rates have been prescribed for different slabs. There are three categories of individual taxpayers- individuals (below the age of 60 years) which includes residents as well as non-residents, resident senior citizens (60 years and above but below 80 years of age) and resident super senior citizens (above 80 years of age). In the general category (below 60 years) , 1. Individual with annual income up to Rs. 2.5 lakh is not liable to pay income tax 2. Individual with an income between Rs. 2.5 lakh and Rs. 5 lakh, the five per cent...
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