Setting Up Income Tax Deduction

Setting Up Income Tax Deduction

Calculating Tax deductions for employees every month is a time consuming activity for most businesses, especially for large enterprises. If setup properly, OneHash simplifies most of the tax related calculations by automatically calculating tax deductions while generating Salary Slips. Here's how you can configure OneHash to ease you payroll processing -

Income Tax Exemption

In many countries, especially in India, regulations allow exempting a part (or all) of some type of spending by individuals from being added to their annual taxable income. Examples of such spending could be contributions to charitable institutions, amount spent for education of children, specific investments etc. To avail the exemption from their taxable income, individuals are required to submit proof of such spending.

OneHash allows you to configure Tax Slabs as part of every Payroll Period and the applies tax on each Salary based on projected annual earnings of the employee. Tax thus calculated will be added to the Salary Slip for deduction Salary Component configured Variable Based On Taxable Salary. Employees are required to declare the exemption amount they plan to claim at the end of the fiscal year so that the payroll deductions for tax will be calculated based on the projected annual earnings less the exemption. Employees can declare this through Employee Tax Exemption Declaration, the total of which will be exempted from annual taxable earnings of the employee.

If no declaration is submitted by the employee, the monthly deductions will be calculated without any exemption from the employee's annual earnings. However, if the employee submits a declaration in between the payroll period, from the next payroll onwards the exemption will be applied from the next payroll. Any additional tax collected in earlier payrolls will be adjusted in the last payroll or when using Deduct Tax For Unsubmitted Tax Exemption Proof in Payroll Entry or Salary Slip.

Also, at the end of the year employees submit the actual proof of the spending for filing via Employee Tax Exemption Proof Submission. In the last payroll of the Payroll Period, OneHash checks for proof submissions of employees and if not found, tax for the exempted income will be added to the standard deduction component.

Employee Tax Exemption Category

Exemptions from taxable salary are usually restricted to spending on particular categories decided by government or regulatory agencies. OneHash allows you to configure various categories which are allowed to be exempted. Examples of this could be, for India, 80G, 80C, B0CC etc.

You can configure Employee Tax Exemption Category by going to,

Human resources > Payroll Setup > Employee Tax Exemption Category > New Employee Tax Exemption Category

Employee Tax Exemption Sub Category

Under each category, there could be many heads for which the exemptions are allowed. For example, in India, sub categories under 80C could be Life Insurance Premium

You can configure Employee Tax Exemption Sub Category by going to

Human resources > Payroll Setup > Employee Tax Exemption Sub Category > New Employee Tax Sub Exemption Category

HRA Exemption - Regional, India

For the fiscal year 2018-19, in India, House Rent Allowance (HRA) exemption from taxable earnings is the minimum of:* The actual amount allotted by the employer as the HRA.* Actual rent paid less 10% of the basic salary. *50% of the basic salary, if the employee is staying in a metro city (40% for a non-metro city).

As part of the Employee Tax Exemption Declaration, employees shall also fill out the HRA Exemption. OneHash will calculate the exemption eligible for HRA and exempt it while calculating the taxable earnings.

Note: Basic and HRA salary component shall be configured in Company for HRA exemption to work

Options in Payroll Entry and Salary Slip

OneHash simplifies payroll processing by automatically processing payroll in bulk via Payroll Entry.

Deduct Tax For Unclaimed Employee Benefits: Flexible benefits (Salary Components which are Is Flexible Benefit) are not included in the taxable income of the employee. However, the amount received for these components will be included in the taxable earnings of the employee if she fails to submit Employee Benefit Claim while calculating tax in the last payroll of the Payroll Period.

If you wish to collect tax for benefits before the last payroll, check this option and OneHash will recalculate the tax and add the tax for all untaxed benefits while generating the Salary Slip.

-> Deduct Tax For Unsubmitted Tax Exemption Proof: This option allows you to deduct taxes for the earnings which were exempted in previous payrolls as declared in Employee Tax Exemption Declaration but the Employee has not submitted sufficient proof via Employee Tax Exemption Proof Submission. It is to be noted that if this option is checked OneHash does not consider the Employee Tax Exemption Declaration by employees and will only take into account Employee Tax Exemption Proof Submission instead while calculating exemption from employees' annual earnings.

Note: If required, you can still process payroll for employees individually, by manually creating a new Salary Slip and both these options are made available in the Salary Slip

Income Tax Slab

Income Tax Slab helps you define Tax slabs applicable for the period, making it easier to manage changing laws. You can add multiple tax slabs for the payroll period depending on the tax regulations. Note that you can use fields in Employee document in the Condition field to apply tax slabs based on attributes of employees.

Payroll Period

Payroll Period helps you define Tax slabs applicable for the period, making it easier to manage changing laws. You can add multiple tax slabs for the payroll period depending on the tax regulations. Note that you can use fields in Employee document in the Condition field to apply tax slabs based on attributes of employees.

Salary Component

To enable automatic tax deduction based on Tax slabs configured in Payroll Period, you have to configure a Salary Component of type Deduction with Variable Based On Taxable Salary option enabled. This checkbox enables auto calculation of Income Tax considering the tax slabs and declaration submitted by an employee. The tax will be calculated annually on the remaining taxable salary and equally divide it in 12 months.

Important Note: If you configure condition and formula for this Deduction component, the condition and formula will be considered for calculating the Salary Component and the Tax Slabs configured in Payroll Period will be ignored. However, you can still use Deduct Tax For Unsubmitted Tax Exemption Proof option in Payroll Entry / Salary Slip to deduct taxes based on the Tax Slabs configured in Payroll Period, exempting Employee Tax Exemption Proof Submission which will give precedence to the Tax Slab based tax deduction. This is particularly helpful if you need to deduct a fixed amount as a deduction in each payroll rather than ERPNext automatically calculating the deductions based on the projected annual salary of the employee after exemption as declared by the employee via Employee Tax Exemption Declaration. At the end of the fiscal year, you can still use Deduct Tax For Unsubmitted Tax Exemption Proof to deduct the remaining tax liability of the employee for the whole period.

Updated on: 28/03/2023