Old Tax Regime Vs New Tax Regime

When negotiating terms of employment with a prospective employee, a higher take home salary works in the company’s favour. A well-structured salary package which maximizes take-home pay and minimizes tax outgo is better than a higher CTC to attract top talent.

Before taking a final call on a particular pay structure, considering employees’ long-term and short-term financial goals helps to retain talent. Modifying the tax structure keeping in view the alternative tax regime vis-à-vis the regular tax regime can simultaneously impact the net take home and retirement corpus as some components of the package may not come to employees immediately and others may be either full taxable or tax-free.

Generally, the CTC can be broadly divided in four components— basic, allowances, perquisites and retirement benefits/contributions. Each component is treated in a different way for tax purposes under old and new tax regimes and can impact the tax liability.

The workshop will discuss taxes on salary, remuneration planning, perquisite taxation, taxation of retirement benefits under the old and new tax regime.