Residential status
The status under section 6 that decides the scope of income taxable in India.
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- Clubbing of incomeSections 60 to 64 add someone else's income to yours — the Act's answer to families who move income to a lower-taxed relative while keeping the asset.
- Control and managementThe test that fixes a Hindu Undivided Family's residential status: a HUF is resident in India unless the control and management of its affairs is situated wholly outside India.
- Double Taxation Avoidance AgreementA treaty between two or more countries that prevents the same income being fully taxed twice, either by allocating the taxing right or by the residence country giving credit for tax paid at source.
- Marginal reliefRelief that caps the tax on income just above the section 87A rebate threshold at the amount by which the income exceeds that threshold — so one extra rupee of income never costs more than a rupee of tax.
- Non-ResidentAn assessee who fails every residency test in section 6 — taxable in India only on income received, accruing or deemed to accrue in India, and on nothing that arises abroad.
- Resident and Ordinarily ResidentThe residential status under which an individual's worldwide income is taxable in India — reached by being resident and failing both of the not-ordinarily-resident tests.
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- Resident and Ordinarily ResidentThe residential status under which an individual's worldwide income is taxable in India — reached by being resident and failing both of the not-ordinarily-resident tests.
- Non-ResidentAn assessee who fails every residency test in section 6 — taxable in India only on income received, accruing or deemed to accrue in India, and on nothing that arises abroad.
- Control and managementThe test that fixes a Hindu Undivided Family's residential status: a HUF is resident in India unless the control and management of its affairs is situated wholly outside India.
- Resident but Not Ordinarily ResidentA middle residential status for income tax: the person is a resident of India, yet foreign income unconnected with an Indian business or profession stays outside the Indian tax net.
- Double Taxation Avoidance AgreementA treaty between two or more countries that prevents the same income being fully taxed twice, either by allocating the taxing right or by the residence country giving credit for tax paid at source.
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