No tax on income up to Rs 5 lakh : Piyush Goyal

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New Delhi | In a bonanza for the country’s middle class in an election year, the government on Friday proposed tax exemption for individual annual incomes of Rs 5 lakh.

Presenting the Interim Budget 2019-20, acting Finance Minister Piyush Goyal proposed doubling the standard deduction threshold for individual annual incomes from the current Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.

Published on : Feb 1, 2019 at 12:58 IST

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