Advance Tax Planner

If your tax for the year (after TDS) is ₹10,000 or more, you pay it in advance instalments during the year. The Advance Tax Planner estimates your tax and lays out what to pay by each date.

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1. Who is paying: Individual (under 60), Senior citizen (60–80), Super senior (over 80), Partnership firm / LLP, or Company.
2. The Financial year and the Tax regime (new regime by default, or old regime).
3. Income for the year: business or profession, salary, house property (net rent), interest and other income, and short-term and long-term capital gains.
4. Deductions (old regime only): 80C, 80D, 80CCD and others, and home loan interest.
5. Already accounted for: TDS / TCS deducted and advance tax already paid.
6. Presumptive scheme (44AD / 44ADA): choose Yes if you use it — you then pay the whole amount in one instalment by 15 March.

The plan

• Tax for the year: taxable income, tax on income, surcharge and cess, less TDS and tax paid, and what is still to pay.
• The next instalment and its date, and your effective tax rate.
• The Instalment plan: 15% of the tax by 15 June, 45% by 15 September, 75% by 15 December and 100% by 15 March.
• Interest risk (234B/C) if an instalment has been missed, and How the tax was worked out, step by step.

Use Download plan, Copy summary or Print to keep it, and Reset to start again.