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The Income-tax Act 2025 renumbering, old versus new regime for Tax Year 2026-27, and what a payslip is actually telling you. Every figure sourced, every page dated.
- Old vs new regime
Old regime or new, for Tax Year 2026-27? Here is the number you have to beat.
Everyone says it depends on your deductions. Nobody says how much. The honest figure is between ₹5.42 lakh and ₹7.98 lakh depending on your salary - and one rule change in April moved four cities close enough to reach it.
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- Income-tax Act 2025
80C is now Section 123. Here is the part nobody is telling you.
The number changed and the money did not. But there is one date that decides which number you write on which return, and getting it wrong is the mistake this transition is going to produce most.
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