Individuals who earn more than INR 2,50,000 in the country must pay applicable taxes. And at the end of the year, they are expected to file their tax returns as well. A tax return is a consolidated summary of your income, deductions, exemptions and total taxes paid.
To cater to different taxpayers, the Income-tax department has classified taxpayers into various categories. And you are expected to file your returns accordingly. The ITR Form 1 or otherwise known as Sahaj Form is for individuals whose annual income does not exceed INR 50,00,000.
Before we get to the details of ITR-1 criteria, the following are the changes that one needs to be aware of.
- ITR-1 for individuals must be filed electronically from the assessment year 2018-2019 onwards. The only exception is taxpayers who are above 80 years old.
- Taxpayers who rent their properties must declare their income from them. If you receive income from only one property, it must be a part of your ITR-1.
- You are also required to specify the status of your property as self-occupied, deemed let out or let out.
- You need to declare the different sources of income, such as interest earned and from which source. There is a separate section for income from other heads to capture such information.
The intent is to make tax return filing a much easier task than it currently is. This is to encourage more taxpayers to start filing their returns. Here are all the details that you would want to know for ITR-1.
Who can file ITR-1?
Individual/ HUFs who are having following sources of income are eligible to file the ITR-1 form:
- Income from salary,
- Income/ loss from only one house property (excluding brought forward loss),
- Income from other sources like interest from savings A/c., interest from fixed deposits, etc. (except casual incomes like the lottery, card games, income from racehorse etc.)
- Agricultural income up to Rs. 5,000/-
*In situations where the income of minor/ spouse is required to be added to the income of the taxpayer, then he can file ITR-1 if such clubbed income is covered under any of the above sources of income.
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Who cannot file ITR-1?
Individual/ HUFs having the following incomes are not eligible to file ITR-1 form-
- Income from more than one house property,
- Previous year's brought forward loss from house property,
- Income from capital gains from the sale of shares, property, etc.
- Income from business/ profession,
- Income from agricultural activities exceeding Rs. 5,000/-,
- Casual incomes like the lottery, card games, horse race, etc.,
- Foreign source income.
- Resident taxpayer having any bank A/c. or any foreign asset like shares, property, etc. outside India.
Checklist of documents required to file ITR-1
Following documents are required to fill-up ITR-1:
- If you have salary income, you will need Form 16 issued by your employer to enter salary details.
- If you have earned interest on fixed deposits or saving bank A/c. and TDS has been deducted on the same, you will need TDS certificates i.e. Form 16A issued by the deductor to enter interest details.
- You will need Form 26AS to verify TDS on salary as well as TDS other than salary. To know how to download Form 26AS, click here.
- If you are living in rented premises, then you will need rent paid receipts for calculation of HRA (in case you forgot to submit the same to your employer within time).
- You will need your bank passbook, fixed deposit receipts (FDRs) to calculate the amount of interest income.
- If you have received rent from your rented house property, then you will need rental receipts to calculate rental income.
- You will also need documents or proof for claiming tax-saving deductions u/s. 80C, 80D, 80G, 80GG such as life & health insurance receipts, donation receipts, rent receipts, receipts for tuition fees etc, if the same were not considered in your Form 16.
Contents of ITR-1
ITR-1 form is divided into the sections as below. The taxpayer needs to fill out the applicable sections.
1. Income details
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Personal details:
Taxpayers need to provide personal details like PAN (Permanent Account Number), Name, Aadhar number, Address, Gender, Date of birth, Contact details, whether original or revised return, residential status etc.
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Gross Total Income:
The aggregate of all incomes like salary, one house property and other sources is treated as "Gross Total Income". Details related to incomes are required to be filled in the respective income schedules.
Taxpayers need to enter income details.
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Deductions and Taxable Total Income:
Tax saving deductions under various sections of the Income-tax Act.
The taxpayer needs to enter his tax-saving deduction details.
Some of the frequently used tax-saving deductions are as follows-
- Section 80C: Life insurance, PPF, PF, NSC, tuition fees, specified mutual funds, etc.
- Section 80CCC & CCD: Investment in pension funds and schemes of Central Government.
- Section 80D: Health insurance & preventive medical check-up
- Section 80E: Interest payment of higher education loan.
- Section 80TTA: Savings bank & post office A/c. interest.
2. TDS
In this schedule, details of tax deducted at source from salary and on income other than salary are to be entered. Also, details of tax payments of advance tax and self-assessment tax is to be entered in this schedule.
3. TCS
In this schedule, details of tax deducted at source (as per Form 27D issued by the collector) is to be entered.
4. Taxes paid and Verification
Under this schedule, details such as:
- exempt income (for reporting purposes),
- bank account in which refund is to be credited
- other bank accounts
- verification i.e name of the assessee, father's name, place, PAN and date
are to be entered. Also, the amount of tax payable or refundable is calculated in this schedule based on the details of income, deductions and taxes paid entered under the above schedules.
5. 80G
Under this schedule, details of donations made are to be entered. There are different categories of donation as follows:
- Donations entitled to 100% deduction without qualifying limit
- Donations entitled to 50% deduction without qualifying limit
- Donations entitled to 100% deduction subject to qualifying limit
- Donations entitled to 50% deduction subject to qualifying limit
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FAQs
- Who can file ITR-1?
Any individual who receives their income from either a salary, from a single property or other forms such as interests from fixed deposits, savings accounts etc. should file ITR-1. - Who cannot file ITR-1?
Individuals who receive income from more than one property, receive income from capital gains such as shares, property, income from the business, casual income such as lottery, card games, horse race etc. or foreign source of income cannot file ITR-1.
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