Question about income tax and deductions

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Hi guys,

I joined a company in May 2017 as a software developer in Hyderabad and I was not working in India for past two years so I have no knowledge of tax deductions in India so please bear with me. Following is the salary breakdown offered to me, CTC agreed before joining was 9.5LPA:

 

Components
Monthly
Yearly
Basic
47000
564000
House Rent Allowance
21150
253800
Medical  Allowance
1250
15000
Conveyance
1600
19200
Bonus
0
0
Performance Allowance
2847
34162
Personal Allowance
2847
34162
Gross( A)
76694
920324
EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS
PF
1800
21600
PF Admin charges
173
2076
GPI
500
6000
ESI @ 4.75% on Gross
0
0
Sub Total (B)
2473
29676
CTC ( A+B)
79167
950000
EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS
PF 12% @ Basic
1800
21600
ESI @ 1.75% on Gross
0
0
Professional Tax
200
2400
Sub Total (C)
2000
24000
Net Salary (A-C)
74694
896324

 

My payslip of may 2017 below, my employer "forgot" to include my declarations so full tax got deducted:

My payslip of june 2017 below, declared 98000 as yearly HRA and 15000 as yearly medical in the declaration form:

My questions:

  1. Is the tax calculation correct inclduing the 98000 HRA declaration? I cannot see medical excemption even though I declared 15000 of it.
  2. Notice the "Profession Tax" increasing every month, I thought profession tax is fixed at 200 but its 350 for may, 550 for june and for july they deducted 750.
  3. My PF account is getting credited with 2300 but as per my undestanding, total contribution from both employer and employee is 3600 so 3600 should get credited.

I can't help but feel the deductions are not calculated properly and there are additional hidden deductions (like the professional tax increasing every month), so please help me out.

Replies (6)
1.HRA was part of salary after claiming exemption it should be included in salary
3.only employee contribution should be deducted
2.ask ur employer about such excess payment of professional fees.. to my knowledge it was 350pm
Originally posted by : manoj reddy
1.HRA was part of salary after claiming exemption it should be included in salary3.only employee contribution should be deducted2.ask ur employer about such excess payment of professional fees.. to my knowledge it was 350pm

 

thanks for your reply...employee PF contributions is getting deducted as you can see in the pay slip but employer contributions are not included in the payslip, how are they going to pay both to my PF account? also what is PT and Profession Tax? Why are they deducted separately?

also the total yearly tax is 66355 which comes to 5530 montly but they are deducting 5918 which is wrong correct?

 

1. HRA Exemption is to be calculated in accordance with Section 10(13A). Whether the 98,000/- figure is correct or not can be ascertained only after calculating exemption as per the above mentioned section. 2. Regarding Profession Tax you are right that it should not be more than Rs. 2,500/- per year. So the deduction should be Rs. 200/- per month and Rs. 300/- for the month of February. You should ask your employer as to why he is deducting more than that?? 3. Amount credited per month to your PF Account should be Rs 1,800/- + Rs. 1,800/- which is Rs. 3,600/- and not Rs. 2,300/-. This also needs to be questioned.

My employer says all calculations are correct and I should check with a tax consultant...

Do you have a Tax Consultant??
Originally posted by : Studentsca
Do you have a Tax Consultant??

You mean at my company? I don't really know because I am working as contractor at another company and my Payroll company wont even let me inside their office. What shoud I do?


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