Industry body Ficci has demanded that the highest income tax rate of 30 per cent should be levied on income above Rs 20 lakh as against Rs 10 lakh currently from next fiscal to encourage consumption. This needs to be re-visited as the tax rate of 30.9 per cent (inclusive of education cess) on income of Rs 10 lakh and above casts a sizeable burden on the middle class,

Raise personal income tax exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh, reduce service tax and excise tax to eight per cent from 12 per cent and increase deduction of interest on housing loan to 5 lakh to revive consumer demand and boost investment, ASSOCHAM said in its pre-Budget recommendations to the government. The effective rate of corporate tax should also be brought down to 25 per cent from 32.45 per cent at present.

Income tax rate Chart for Financial Year 2012-13 / Assessment year 2013-14 . Tax Rates For Individuals (Men & Women), Hindu Undivided Families, Association of Persons and Body of Individuals

As per the Finance Act, 2012, income-tax rates Applicable for Assessment Year 2013-14 / Financial Year 2012-13 Applicable to Individual, HUF, is as follows- Rates of tax – A. HUF & Individual (Including Female Assessee ) who is of the age of sixty years or Less

Tax Implication on Dividend received by Unitholders – Tax Rate on Dividend Distribution , Capital Gain, Income Tax Rates, Securities Transaction Tax (STT) for financial Year 2012-13 or Assessment year 2013-14.

In respect of income of all categories of taxpayers liable to tax for the assessment year 2011-12, the rates of income-tax have been specified in Part 1 of the First Schedule to the Finance Act, 2011. These rates are the same as those laid down in Part III of the First Schedule to the Finance Act, 2010 for the purposes of computation of advance tax, deduction of tax at source from Salaries and charging of tax payable in certain cases during the financial year 2010-11.

Filing of return & due date & PAN/ TAN – Since there is no threshold limit for taxability of income in case of a co-operative society, it implies that if a society has any taxable income, it has to file a return of income . Since accounts of all co-operative societies are subject to statutory audit provisions under respective governing laws, therefore due date for filing return of income under the Income-tax Act, 1961 is September 30.

The rates are for the previous Year 2012-13: 1. Income Tax Rates 1.1 For Individuals, Hindu Undivided Families, Association of Persons and Body of Individuals

Income Tax Rate Slabs for Assessment year 2001-2002,2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011 amd A.Y. 2012-2013 for Individual, Hindu undivided Family (HUF), Women Other Than Senior Citizen.

Income Tax Rates/ Slabs for the financial year 2011-2012 (A.Y. 2012-2013) for Individual, HUF, woman, senior citizen and senior citizen of 80 Years and more-Normal Rates of tax: Applicable to Individual Male below the Age of 60 Years and HUF