A consultant billing ₹60 lakh a year can legally pay tax on just ₹30 lakh.
A consultant billing ₹60 lakh a year can legally pay tax on just ₹30 lakh.
No expense bills, no books, no audit. That is Section 44ADA, and most independent professionals either don't know it exists or don't know its limits.
🔶If you're a doctor, lawyer, CA, architect, engineer, IT consultant or designer earning professional fees, the law assumes half your receipts were spent earning them & taxes only the rest:
🔹 No books of account, no bills to preserve
🔹 No tax audit (when declaring at presumptive rate)
🔹 ITR-4 instead of ITR-3, and advance tax in one instalment instead of four
But the 50% assumption cuts both ways. If you genuinely spend more than half your fees on rent, staff, software & travel, the regular route may tax you less.
Note: The limit is ₹50 lakh normally, or up to ₹75 lakh if cash receipts do not exceed 5% of total receipts. And once you opt out after using it, Section 44ADA(4) implications may apply regarding books & audit.
☝️ The infographic walks through one consultant's full year, both ways.
Prepared By✍️ Rajendra Dangwal Sirji
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