Transport Allowance Calculator

Transport allowance is a special type of allowance that is given to an employee to fulfil the expenditure for commuting expenses from residence to office and office to residence. Transport allowance is also a part of CTC. It is to fulfil the expenditure needed during the transportation done by employees. Transport Allowance is also given to those who work in the business of transportation. A transport allowance is offered to employees to meet their expenses related to their transport expenditure from home to office to home and vice versa.

Transport Allowance Calculator is simple utility software that helps you to claim the benefits on transport to save the tax. You can use this calculator to know the tax-free amount and taxable amount on salary. Transport Allowance Calculator made the process of estimation of charged tax on salary component convenient, easy and simple.

Transport Allowance is provided to those employees who are working in the transportation business to meet their commuting expenditure. In some cases, This is also given to the employee by the employer who specifically mentions it in his employee's CTC. It shows that all salaried employees are eligible to get the transport allowance but self-employed can not claim it therefore preconditions of receiving the taxable allowance should be discussed well between employee and employer.

Transport allowance is partially taxed under section 10(14)(i) of the income tax act. The Government believes that transport expenses are genuine and real, so for saving you from the heavy taxes, your whole transport allowance is not taxed.

For a salaried employee - Transport Allowance of Rs. 1600 per month is not taxable for a salaried person but when the amount, of more than Rs.1600 is received. It is counted as taxable income. For the employees of the transport system - This exemption is provided to those employees who do not get daily transport allowance or run transportation from one place to another one. For specified employees, If the amount received by the employee of the transport system is less thanRs.10,000 in a month then it will not be taxable. For handicapped people - A lower of Rs.3200 per month is tax-free for handicapped employees. Handicapped people are those who are having physical disabilities. Yearly the amount of 38,400 is tax-free for these employees.

Most people are perplexed when it comes to claiming the tax exemption on their income tax returns. They usually make mistakes between the exemption of transport allowance and conveyance allowance. Transport Allowance comes under section 10(14)(ii) of the income tax act. Transport Allowance is provided to an employee to fulfil the expenditure for commuting expenses from residence to office and office to residence. Transport allowance is also a part of CTC. Conveyance Allowance is enclosed under section 10(14)(i) of the income tax act. This allowance is provided to meet the transportation expenditure in the case of official work. To claim the tax exemption on conveyance allowance, it is necessary to be within the limit of the actual spent amount for the official goal.

To calculate the tax on exemption allowance is not a hard nut to crack. It is a very simple process. Anyone can calculate his transport allowance. Let's have an example to understand how it is calculated. If your company or employer provides you Rs. 2100 per month as a transportation allowance then the amount which is taxable will be Rs. 500. Because we know that amount should be more than Rs 1600 per month to be taxed. If the received amount was Rs.1600 instead of Rs.2100 then It will be tax-free. You can use our Transport Allowance Tax calculator. It is specially designed to give you an accurate calculation of the tax exemption amount of transport allowance.