People Earning Upto Rs 5 Lakh From Filing Income Tax Return

People earning upto Rs 5 lakh exempted from filing Income tax Return
No income-tax returns would be required for salaried persons earning up to Rs 5 lakh per annum. Notification would be issued in first week of June 2011.
The scheme would be applicable from assessment year 2011-12 onwards. This means that the salaried persons eligible under the scheme would not have to file returns for the financial year 2010-11 in 2011-12 (assessment year).
However, such tax payers would have to file return if they want to claim refunds.
In case such a salary earner has income from other sources like dividend, interest etc and does not want to file returns, he would have to disclose such income to his employer for tax deduction.
In the scenario, the Form 16 issued to salaried employees will be treated as Income Tax Return. The idea behind the move is that in cases where there are no other sources of income, filing of a return is a duplication of existing information.

This exemption is only for salaried class people earning upto 5 lacs.
Tax slabs for female and sr.citizen will remain as declared in the budget.

So hereafter there is no separate slap for both male and female, is it right?both r getting upto 5L no need to pay tax . if 5L-8L = 10 % tax and above 8L=20 % tax only..
is it right or not.. i need clear brief..

Dear Mr. Mohan,
Plz go through my 1st input properly. It is all about not filing IT return. It is not about not paying taxes.
Exemption from filing IT return only for salaried class people earning upto 5 lacs per annum.

Notification Exempting Individual having Income less then 5 lakh from furnishing Income Tax Return

NOTIFICATION NO. 36/2011 [F. NO. 142/09/2011 (TPL)]

DATED 23-6-2011

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1C) of section 139 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby exempts the following class of persons, subject to the conditions specified hereinafter, from the requirement of furnishing a return of income under sub-section (1) of section 139 for the assessment year 2011-12, namely :—

Class of Persons

1. An Individual whose total income for the relevant assessment year does not exceed five lakh rupees and consists of only income chargeable to income-tax under the following head,—

(A) “Salaries”;

(B) “Income from other sources”, by way of interest from a savings account in a bank, not exceeding ten thousand rupees.

Conditions

2. The individual referred to in para 1,—

(i) has reported to his employer his Permanent Account Number (PAN);

(ii) has reported to his employer, the incomes mentioned in sub-para (B) of para 1 and the employer has deducted the tax thereon;

(iii) has received a certificate of tax deduction in Form 16 from his employer which mentions the PAN, details of income and the tax deducted at source and deposited to the credit of the Central Government;

(iv) has discharged his total tax liability for the assessment year through tax deduction at source and its deposit by the employer to the Central Government;

(v) has no claim of refund of taxes due to him for the income of the assessment year; and

(vi) has received salary from only one employer for the assessment year.

3. The exemption from the requirement of furnishing a return of income-tax shall not be available where a notice under section 142(1) or section 148 or section 153A or section 153C of the Income-tax Act has been issued for filing a return of income for the relevant assessment year.

4. This notification shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.