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This time, there will be an exclusive 30 minutes of LIVE discussion thread with the Expert CA Shubham Goel, Co-founder and Partner, ByTheBook Consulting LLP on the topic ‘Professional Tax in India’.
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Let’s welcome today’s expert for the session, CA Shubham Goel, Co-founder and Partner, ByTheBook Consulting LLP.
Mr. Shubham Goel is one of the most sought out experts in this domain. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 7 years of big 4 experience in handling tax compliance, advisory and litigation matters.
He is also the Co-founder & Partner at ByTheBook Consulting LLP. He has extensive knowledge in handling global engagements requiring proactive support and handling complex compliance issues. He has been involved in servicing several high net worth individuals on their return filings and litigation issues at various appellate levels.
We are thankful to him for joining our session today as the expert to share his views, expertise, thoughts and knowledge.
Once again, a very warm welcome to you Mr. Shubham.
We also open the session for questions after this post.
Professional tax is a tax on all kinds of professions, trades, and employment and levied based on the income of such profession, trade and employment. It is levied on employees, a person carrying on business including freelancers, professionals, etc., subject to income exceeding the monetary threshold if any.
a) In case of employees, an employer is a person responsible to deduct and pay professional tax to the State Government subject to the monetary threshold if any provided by respective State’s legislation.
b) An employer (corporates, partnership firms, sole proprietorship etc) also being a person carrying on trade/profession is also required to pay professional tax on his trade/profession again subject to the monetary threshold if any provided by respective State’s legislation.
c) Persons who are carrying on freelancing business without any employees subject to the monetary threshold if any, provided by the respective State’s legislation.
The significant difference is in the receiver of these two different taxes. The central government receives income tax, and the state government gets the professional tax.
The Professional Tax is levied by certain states and Union Territories subject to monetary threshold limit. Whereas Income Tax is levied on the entire country as per the nature of assessee and applicable income slab rates.
The range of professional tax varies from state to state. The range varies from INR 250 – INR 1,250 (Puducherry) to INR 2,100 – INR 2,500 (Maharashtra).
It varies from state to state because it is a state-imposed tax. Professional tax is deducted according to the slabs established by each state and union territory.
Professional tax is a state subject. There is no fixed procedure to pay professional tax. It can be paid either online or offline modes depending on the state from where the business is operating. Also, the intervals and procedure for filing professional tax returns depend on the State or UT.
