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BCH2017035
There are two types of taxes:
1)Direct tax
Examples:
Income tax
Wealth tax
2)Indirect tax
Examples:
Service tax
Excise duties
VAT
Income is money that an individual or
business receives in
exchange for providing a good or service
or through investing capital. Income is
used to fund day-to-day expenditures. ...
In businesses, income can refer
to acompany's remaining revenues after
paying all expenses and taxes.
Income from salary
Income from housing property
Income from business and
profession
Income from capital gain
Income from other sources
Annual charge levied on both earned income (wages, salaries,
commission) and unearned income (dividends, interest, rents). In
addition to financing a government's operations, progressive
income taxation is designed to distribute wealth more evenly in a
population, and to serve as automatic fiscal stabilizer to cushion
the effects of economic cycles. Its two basic types are (1) Personal
income tax, levied on incomes of individuals, households,
partnerships, and sole-proprietorships; and (2) Corporation
income tax, levied on profits (net earnings) of incorporated firms.
However, presence of tax loopholes (whose number increases in
direct proportion to the complexity of tax code) may allow some
wealthy persons to escape higher taxes without violating the letter
of the tax laws.
ASSESSEE:
According to section-2(7),Assessee means a person who pay tax
and takes the benefits and deduction under the income tax Act.
According to section -2(31),a person includes,
Individual
HUF
Company
Firm
An AOP/ BOI
Local Authority
Every Other Artificial judicial person .
What is Agriculture Income?
Agricultural income in India is categorized as a valid source and
essentially incorporates income from sources that include farming
area, structures on or identified with a rural land and business
deliver from a horticultural land. This income is considered for rate
purposes while ascertaining the income tax liability of an individual.