Income Tax Circular No: 08/2012 (05-Oct-12) Deduction of tax at source - Salary - Income-tax deduction from salaries under section 192 during the financial year 2012-13

Reference is invited to Circular No. 05/2011, dated 16-8-2011 whereby the rates of deduction of income-tax from the payment of income under the head "Salaries" under Section 192 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter 'the Act'), during the financial year 2011-12, were intimated. The present Circular contains the rates of deduction of income-tax from the payment of income chargeable under the head "Salaries" during the financial year 2012-13 and explains certain related provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter the Act) and Income-tax Rules, 1962 (hereinafter the Rules). The relevant Acts, Rules, Forms and Notifications are available at the website of the Income Tax Department- www.incometaxindia.gov.in.

2. RATES OF INCOME-TAX AS PER FINANCE ACT, 2012:

As per the Finance Act, 2012, income-tax is required to be deducted under Section 192 of the Income-tax Act 1961 from income chargeable under the head "Salaries" for the financial year 2012-13 (i.e. Assessment Year 2013-14) at the following rates:

2.1 Rates of tax

A. Normal Rates of tax:

Sl. No. Total Income Rate of tax
1 Where the total income does not exceed Rs. 2,00,000/-. Nil
2 Where the total income exceeds Rs. 2,00,000 but does not exceed Rs. 5,00,000/-. 10 per cent of the amount by which the total income exceeds Rs. 2,00,000/-
3 Where the total income exceeds Rs. 5,00,000/- but does not exceed Rs. 10,00,000/-. Rs. 30,000/- plus 20 per cent of the amount by which the total income exceeds Rs. 5,00,000/-.
4 Where the total income exceeds Rs. 10,00,000/-. Rs. 1,30,000/- plus 30 per cent of the amount by which the total income exceeds Rs. 10,00,000/-

B. Rates of tax for every individual, resident in India, who is of the age of sixty years or more but less than eighty years at any time during the financial year:

Sl. No Total Income Rate of tax
1 Where the total income does not exceed Rs. 2,50,000/-. Nil
2 Where the total income exceeds Rs. 2,50,000 but does not exceed Rs. 5,00,000/-. 10 per cent of the amount by which the total income exceeds Rs. 2,50,000/-
3 Where the total income exceeds Rs. 5,00,000/- but does not exceed Rs. 10,00,000/-. Rs. 25,000/- plus 20 per cent of the amount by which the total income exceeds Rs. 5,00,000/-.
4 Where the total income exceeds Rs. 10,00,000/-. Rs. 1,25,000/- plus 30 per cent of the amount by which the total income exceeds Rs. 10,00,000/-

C. In case of every individual being a resident in India, who is of the age of eighty years or more at any time during the financial year:

Sl. No Total Income Rate of tax
1 Where the total income does not exceed Rs. 5,00,000/-. Nil
2 Where the total income exceeds Rs. 5,00,000 but does not exceed Rs. 10,00,000/-. 20 per cent of the amount by which the total income exceeds Rs. 5,00,000/-
3 Where the total income exceeds Rs. 10,00,000/-. Rs. 1,00,000/- plus 30 per cent of the amount by which the total income exceeds Rs. 10,00,000/-

2.2 Surcharge on Income tax:

There will be no surcharge on income tax payments by individual taxpayers during FY 2012-13 (AY 2013-14).

2.3.1 Education Cess on Income tax:

The amount of income-tax shall be increased by Education Cess on Income Tax at the rate of two per cent of the income-tax.

2.3.2 Secondary and Higher Education Cess on Income-tax:

From Financial Year 2007-08 onwards, an additional surcharge is chargeable at the rate of one per cent of income-tax (not including the Education Cess on income-tax).

Education Cess, and Secondary and Higher Education Cess are payable by both resident and nonresident assessees.

3. SECTION 192 OF THE INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961: BROAD SCHEME OF TAX DEDUCTION AT SOURCE FROM "SALARIES":

3.1 Method of Tax Calculation:

Every person who is responsible for paying any income chargeable under the head "Salaries" shall deduct income-tax on the estimated income of the assessee under the head "Salaries" for the financial year 2012-13. The income-tax is required to be calculated on the basis of the rates given above subject to provisions of section 206AA of the Act and shall be deducted at the time of each payment. No tax will, however, be required to be deducted at source in any case unless the estimated salary income including the value of perquisites, for the financial year exceeds Rs. 2,00,000/- or Rs.2,50,000/- or Rs. 5,00,000/-, as the case may be, depending upon the age of the employee. (Some typical examples of computation of tax are given at Annexure-I).

3.2 Payment of Tax on Non-monetary Perquisites by Employer:

An option has been given to the employer to pay the tax on non-monetary perquisites given to an employee. The employer may, at his option, make payment of the tax on such perquisites himself without making any TDS from the salary of the employee. The employer will have to pay such tax at the time when such tax was otherwise deductible i.e. at the time of payment of income chargeable under the head "salaries" to the employee.

3.3 Computation of Average Income Tax:

For the purpose of making the payment of tax mentioned in para 3.2 above, tax is to be determined at the average of income-tax computed on the basis of rate in force for the financial year, on the income chargeable under the head "salaries", including the value of perquisites for which tax has been paid by the employer himself.

ILLUSTRATION:

Suppose that the income chargeable under the head "salaries" of an employee below sixty years of age for the year inclusive of all perquisites is Rs. 4,50,000/-, out of which, Rs. 50,000/- is on account of non-monetary perquisites and the employer opts to pay the tax on such perquisites as per the provisions discussed in para 3.2 above.

STEPS:

Income Chargeable under the head "Salaries" inclusive of all perquisites Rs. 4,50,000/-
Tax on Total Salaries(including Cess) Rs. 25,750/-
Average Rate of Tax [(25,750/4,50,000) × 100] 5.72%
Tax payable on Rs.50,000/= (5.72% of 50,000) Rs. 2,861/-
Amount required to be deposited each month Rs. 240 (Rs. 238.4) (=2061/12)

The tax so paid by the employer shall be deemed to be TDS made from the salary of the employee.

3.4 Salary from More Than One Employer:

Section 192(2) deals with situations where an individual is working under more than one employer or has changed from one employer to another. It provides for deduction of tax at source by such employer (as the taxpayer may choose) from the aggregate salary of the employee who is or has been in receipt of salary from more than one employer. The employee is now required to furnish to the present/chosen employer details of the income under the head "Salaries" due or received from the former/other employer and also tax deducted at source therefrom, in writing and duly verified by him and by the former/other employer. The present/ chosen employer will be required to deduct tax at source on the aggregate amount of salary (including salary received from the former or other employer).

3.5 Relief When Salary Paid in Arrear or Advance:

3.5.1 Under section 192(2A) where the assessee, being a Government servant or an employee in a company, co-operative society, local authority, university, institution, association or body is entitled to the relief under Section 89(1) he may furnish to the person responsible for making the payment referred to in Para (3.1), such particulars in Form No. 10E duly verified by him, and thereupon the person responsible, as aforesaid, shall compute the relief on the basis of such particulars and take the same into account in making the deduction under Para(3.1) above.

Here "University means a University established or incorporated by or under a Central, State or Provincial Act, and includes an institution declared under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956(3 of 1956), to be University for the purposes of the Act.

3.5.2 With effect from 1-4-2010 (AY 2010-11), no such relief shall be granted in respect of any amount received or receivable by an assessee on his voluntary retirement or termination of his service, in accordance with any scheme or schemes of voluntary retirement or in the case of a public sector company referred to in section 10(10C)(i) (read with Rule 2BA), a scheme of voluntary separation, if an exemption in respect of any amount received or receivable on such voluntary retirement or termination of his service or voluntary separation has been claimed by the assessee under section 10(10C) in respect of such, or any other, assessment year.

3.6 Income under any Other head: (i) Section 192(2B) enables a taxpayer to furnish particulars of income under any head other than "Salaries" ( not being a loss under any such head other than the loss under the head " income from house property") received by the assessee for the same financial year and of any tax deducted at source thereon. Form no. 12C, which was earlier prescribed for furnishing such particulars, has since been omitted from the Rules by the Income Tax (24th amendment) Rules, 2003, w.e.f. 1-10-2003. However, the particulars may now be furnished in a simple statement, which is properly signed and verified by the taxpayer in the manner as prescribed under Rule 26B(2) of the Rules and shall be annexed to the simple statement. The form of verification is reproduced as under:

I, _________ (name of the assessee), do declare that what is stated above is true to the best of my information and belief.

(ii) Such income should not be a loss under any such head other than the loss under the head "Income from House Property" for the same financial year. DDO shall take such other income and tax deducted at source, if any, on such income and the loss, if any, under the head "Income from House Property" into account for the purpose of computing tax deductible in terms of section 192(2B) of the Act. However, this sub-section shall not in any case have the...

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