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Deductions · effective 1 April 2026

Section 16 under the
Income-tax Act, 2025

Deductions from salary — standard deduction and professional tax

Income-tax Act, 1961
16
Income-tax Act, 2025
19(1), Table Sl. No. 2 (standard deduction) and Sl. No. 1 (professional tax)
ConfirmedTaken from the ICAI Direct Taxes Committee concordance and independently checked against the bare statutory text of the Income-tax Act, 2025.

Topic

Deductions from salary — standard deduction and professional tax — Deductions provisions under the Income-tax Act, 2025 (Act 30 of 2025).

What carried over

The substance of this provision was not changed by the re-write. What moved is the citation.

Old 16(ia) standard deduction is s.19(1) Table Sl. No. 2: Rs 75,000 (or salary, if lower) where tax is computed under the new regime in s.202(1), and Rs 50,000 otherwise — the existing regime-dependent split, carried over. Old 16(iii) professional tax is Sl. No. 1. Note s.19 also absorbs the old s.10 retirement exemptions — gratuity 10(10), commuted pension 10(10A), leave encashment 10(10AA), retrenchment compensation 10(10B) and VRS 10(10C) — which were previously exemptions, not salary deductions.

Source

ICAI concordance row '19 | Deductions from salaries | 16, 10(10), 10(10A), 10(10AA), 10(10B), 10(10C)'; verified against bare text of s.19(1) Table.

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Still cite section 16 for
Income earned up to 31 March 2026 — that is FY 2025-26, Assessment Year 2026-27, governed by the Income-tax Act, 1961 even though you file it during 2026.
Cite 19(1), Table Sl. No. 2 (standard deduction) and Sl. No. 1 (professional tax) for
Income earned from 1 April 2026 — Tax Year 2026-27 onwards, governed by the Income-tax Act, 2025. Tax deducted on payments made on or after 1 April 2026 must be reported under the new section 393 table references and new challan/return codes. Quoting a legacy section such as 194C or 194J triggers validation failure.
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