{"id":57609,"date":"2025-12-14T17:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/?post_type=qa&#038;p=57609"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:35:22","slug":"to-claim-tax-exemption-on-leave-encashment-for-ay-2021-22-tax-paid-over-3-lakh","status":"publish","type":"qa","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/qa\/to-claim-tax-exemption-on-leave-encashment-for-ay-2021-22-tax-paid-over-3-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"To claim Tax exemption on leave encashment for AY 2021-22. Tax paid over  3 lakh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I retired from Bank on Jan 31, 2021. As per then IT rules, tax was paid on leave encashment over and above 3 lakhs for the amount being 20 lakhs. I tried for full exemption but in online form it was not accepted stating that I am not a government employee. In 2023, the exemption limit was enhanced to 25 lakhs from 3 lakhs. I felt cheated. As I observe, a person retired in FY 2020-21 like me, claiming such exemption through ITAT, succeeded in getting exemption.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I also want to avail this exemption. How it will be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","qa_expert":[1275],"qa_category":[23],"qa_tag":[425,1023],"class_list":["post-57609","qa","type-qa","status-publish","hentry","qa_expert-law-intern","qa_category-income-tax","qa_tag-leave-encashment","qa_tag-leave-encashment-exemption"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa\/57609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/qa"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"qa_expert","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa_expert?post=57609"},{"taxonomy":"qa_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa_category?post=57609"},{"taxonomy":"qa_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa_tag?post=57609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}