{"id":50,"date":"2026-01-16T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:46:52","slug":"news-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2026 Income Tax Expectations Live: Taxpayers seek relief under old tax regime, joint taxation for married couples, LTCG cut and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Income Tax Budget 2026 Expectations Live Updates: As Union Budget 2026 approaches, taxpayers are keenly watching whether the government will extend fresh income tax relief after making Rs 12 lakh income tax-free last year. Key focus areas include possible changes in income tax slabs, a higher exemption limit under the new tax regime, and whether the old tax regime could be phased out, with major implications for the salaried class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Budget 2026 Income Tax Slabs Expectations Live: The countdown to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/about\/union-budget-2026-27\/\">Union Budget 2026-27<\/a>\u00a0has begun and like every year, expectations among taxpayers are running high. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present her ninth consecutive Budget on February 1, marking the third full Budget of Modi 3.0 regime. After the mega relief for middle-class announced in Budget 2025-26 \u2014 where annual income up to Rs 12 lakh was made tax-free under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/about\/new-tax-regime\/\">new tax regime<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 taxpayers are now hoping for further income tax relief, simpler compliance and targeted benefits across segments.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Income Tax Budget 2026 Expectations Live Updates: As Union Budget 2026 approaches, taxpayers are keenly watching whether the government will extend fresh income tax relief after making Rs 12 lakh income tax-free last year. Key focus areas include possible changes in income tax slabs, a higher exemption limit under the new tax regime, and whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-tax-financial-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casmpuj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}