taxcalcindia 0.1.1

A package to calculate income tax for Indian taxpayers

taxcalcindia

A lightweight Python package to calculate Indian income tax for individuals. Designed for local use and packaging on PyPI.

Table of Contents

• Highlights
• Installation
• Quick start
• Example notebook
• API pointers
• Contributing
• License
• Important notice
• Support the project

Highlights

• Compute tax under both the new and old regimes and recommend the cheaper regime.
• Support for salary, business, capital gains and other incomes.
• Common deductions and simple slab lookup.
• Small, well-documented models suitable for packaging and testing.

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install taxcalcindia

Quick start

Example usage:

from taxcalcindia import IncomeTaxCalculator, TaxSettings, SalaryIncome, Deductions

settings = TaxSettings(age=27, financial_year=2025)
salary = SalaryIncome(basic_and_da=500000, other_allowances=500000, bonus_and_commissions=350000)
deductions = Deductions(food_coupons=26400, professional_tax=2500)

calc = IncomeTaxCalculator(settings=settings, salary=salary, deductions=deductions)
result = calc.calculate_tax(is_comparision_needed=True, is_tax_per_slab_needed=True, display_result=False)

print(result)

Example notebook

A longer, runnable example is provided in the repository: example.ipynb. It contains multiple scenarios and is extended based on user requests.

API pointers

• Main calculator: taxcalcindia.calculator.IncomeTaxCalculator
• Input models:
  • EmploymentType (Enum)
  • TaxSettings (age, financial_year, is_metro_resident, employment_type)
  • SalaryIncome (basic_and_da, hra, other_allowances, bonus_and_commissions, total, total_eligible_hra(settings))
  • BusinessIncome (business_income, property_income, total)
  • CapitalGainsIncome (short_term_at_normal, short_term_at_20_percent, long_term_at_12_5_percent, long_term_at_20_percent, total, total_capital_gains_tax)
  • OtherIncome (savings_account_interest, fixed_deposit_interest, other_sources, total)
  • Deductions (section_80c, section_80d, section_80gg, section_24b, section_80ccd_1b, section_80ccd_2, section_80eea, section_80u, section_80eeb, section_80e, section_80g_50percent, section_80g_100percent, section_80gga, section_80ggc, rent_for_hra_exemption, professional_tax, food_coupons, other_exemption, section_80tta, section_80ttb, total)
• Slab retrieval: taxcalcindia.slabs.get_tax_slabs
• Package exceptions: taxcalcindia.exceptions.TaxCalculationException

Contributing

Contributions via PRs are welcome. Please:

• Follow standard Python packaging practices.
• Include tests for new features.
• Keep changes small and documented.

License

MIT — see LICENSE

Important notice

• Do NOT use this package as the sole source for filing income tax returns. This project is provided as an aid/reference only. Always audit calculations yourself or consult a government-approved tax professional or authorised tax-filing service before submitting returns. The creator is not responsible for any misfiled tax returns or financial/legal consequences arising from using this package.

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