{"id":332288,"date":"2025-04-09T17:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=332288"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:15:40","slug":"professional-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/professional-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Swiggy faces a tax demand of \u20b97.59 crore from the Maharashtra Government over alleged non-compliance with professional tax deduction norms. <strong>Professional Tax.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-332584 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Professional-Tax.png?resize=626%2C415&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Professional Tax\" width=\"626\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Professional-Tax.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Professional-Tax.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Professional-Tax.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Professional-Tax.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Professional Tax<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Professional Tax<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a tax charged on income earned through employment, business, freelancing, or any profession.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It applies to all earning individuals, including salaried employees, business owners, and freelancers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Self-employed individuals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as shopkeepers, freelancers, consultants, and professionals like architects or chartered accountants also need to pay professional tax themselves if their income crosses a certain limit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>It is imposed by the state government under <strong>Article 276<\/strong> of the Constitution of India. It also has provided for a maximum cap of Rs.2,500, beyond which professional tax cannot be charged to any person.<\/li>\n<li>Professional tax is deductible under the <strong>Income Tax Act of 1961.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Each state sets its own rules and tax slabs. <strong>The tax amount depends on the income of the person.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Swiggy faces a tax demand of \u20b97.59 crore from the Maharashtra Government over alleged non-compliance with professional tax deduction norms. Professional Tax. About Professional Tax Professional Tax is a tax charged on income earned through employment, business, freelancing, or any profession. It applies to all earning individuals, including salaried employees, business owners, and freelancers.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/professional-tax\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Professional Tax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":332584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,12039],"tags":[11872,12055,10501],"class_list":["post-332288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-knolls","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Professional-Tax.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}