Your residence gives you a lot of tax benefits. Be it owned, rented or leased, there are a lot of tax benefits. The repayment of home loan principal and home loan interest fetches tax benefits under Section 80C and Section 24 respectively. You also get tax breaks on the income paid to landlord.
There are a number of investments which enjoy the Section 80C tax benefit. The popular ones are PPF, ELSS, NSC, premiums paid on life insurance plans and even the home loan principal repayments. This is a collective deduction up to Rs 1.5 Lakhs a year.
The home loan principal is not sizeable during the initial years of repayment. This means the home loan principal alone would not exhaust the Section 80C limit. You need other tax saving investments like PPF and ELSS to exhaust the limit.
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You enjoy tax benefits on home loan interest up to Rs 2 Lakhs a year under Section 24(b) for self-occupied properties. If you own two properties and both of them are not let-out (given on rent), they both qualify to be self-occupied properties.
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Your second house will not be subject to tax on the notional basis if it’s used as the family residence or even if it’s left vacant for the whole year. (Say you are employed at another location). If you avail of home loans to finance both the properties, the total home loan interest deduction is still Rs 2 Lakhs a year.
If you take a home loan for the under-construction property, you get tax benefits on home loan interest payments over 5 years. This starts from the year in which the construction was completed. Pre-construction interest can be claimed in 5 equal installments on a yearly basis. The maximum tax deduction on home loan interest is capped at Rs 2 Lakhs.
If you are buying a house for the first time, you get tax benefit on home loan interest payments under Section 80EEA. This deduction of Rs 1.5 Lakhs a year on home loan interest is over and above the Rs 2 Lakh deduction under Section 24.
The stamp duty on the property must not exceed Rs 45 Lakhs. If you meet all the conditions under Section 80EEA you can get a deduction on home loan interest up to a maximum of Rs 3.5 Lakhs a year. The home loan must be availed between 1st April 2019 to March 31st 2020 to get this benefit.
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If you get House Rent Allowance or HRA as part of the salary package, the amount is eligible for tax exemption under Section 10(13A).
The least of the three values is available as tax exemption:
Let’s understand this with an example. Vijay resides in Kolkata in a rented apartment paying Rs 20,000 a month. His Basic salary is Rs 36,000 and HRA is Rs 18,000. What is the HRA tax exemption?
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Based on the 3 conditions we have:
The least of the three conditions is Rs 1,96,800. This is the HRA tax exemption.
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