Bringing some relief to individual taxpayers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his maiden Union Budget 2014-15 in Parliament, left the tax rates unchanged and raised personal tax exemption limit to Rs 2.5 lakh from the current Rs 2 lakh for all individual tax payers below 60 years. For senior citizens up to 80 years, the exemption limit was upped from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 3 lakh, while status quo was maintained for the exemption limit of senior citizens above 80 years. Presently, individuals who are 80 years or more enjoy an exemption limit up-to Rs 5 lakh.
Further, the Investment limit under Section 80C has also been hiked to Rs 1.5 lakh from the current Rs 1 lakh. Under Section 80 C of the Income Tax Act, one can claim deduction from taxable income if one invests in Public Provident Fund (PPF), Employee Provident Fund (EPF), National Savings Certificate (NSC), life insurance policies, tax-saving bank fixed deposits, Senior Citizen Savings Schemes, tax-saving mutual funds and to repay home loan principal. This move is expected to help achieve twin objectives of encouraging the households to make long term savings, and also increase the overall savings rate in the economy which has fallen considerably over the last five years.
In further relief to the depositors, the FM announced that the PPF (Public Provident Fund) deposit ceiling would be raised to Rs 1.5 lakh from the existing Rs 1 lakh. Besides, the Union Budget 2014 also gave a major relief to home loan borrowers as it raised the deduction limit on interest paid on home loans for self-occupied properties from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 2 lakh. As a result of these changes, a taxpayer in the 30% tax slab can save up to Rs 36,050 a year, in the 20% tax slab can save up to Rs 25,750 and those in the 10% tax slab can save up to Rs 17,510.
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