is IT refund taxable or not

Pankaj Arora (Learner)     14 January 2011

IT refund is not taxable but interest on refund is taxable.

Sonam Bidasaria (CA)     14 January 2011

Agree with the above answer.

Batul (Article assistant)     14 January 2011

IT refund is not taxable

But the interest earned on such refund is taxable..

AASHISH (CA)     14 January 2011

Only Interest on such Income tax refund is taxable....

CA Somnath Sarkar (in between jobs)     14 January 2011

IT u piad is personal nature exp. This type of exp. can't be deducted and refund of these type of exp can't be taken as income, for income tax purposes.

Nilesh Jain (Assistant Manager)     14 January 2011

only interest part is taxable. because we never claim Income tax paid as a expense so refund is also not treated as income and hence exempt.

U S Sharma (glidor@gmail.com)     14 January 2011

income tax refund receipt is capital receipt hence not taxable, but interest is part of P/L so taxable

HASSAAN IQBAL GONDALWALA (ARTICLE ASSISTANT)     14 January 2011

Whole of the refund amount is not taxable.

only the difference (i.e Interest )amount is taxable under the Head INCOME FROM OTHER SOURCE.

binit kumar jindal (chartered accountant)     14 January 2011

it refund is a part of your income every time, e.g. when you are in employement income tax is deducted from your salary and you already add this part in your gross total income , other example in contractorship tds deducted in that case also total income includes tds paid hence it already taken as income and if tax was not applicable in your income then you can took this tds in your b/s as current assets