{"id":1016994,"date":"2026-06-26T08:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016994"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:58:26","slug":"senior-citizen-mistakenly-paid-tax-on-tax-free-vrs-compensation-wins-complete-relief-from-itat-chennai-on-this-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/senior-citizen-mistakenly-paid-tax-on-tax-free-vrs-compensation-wins-complete-relief-from-itat-chennai-on-this-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior citizen mistakenly paid tax on tax-free VRS compensation; wins complete relief from ITAT Chennai on this ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Hemalatha Govindarajulu from Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai who worked in BSNL for quite some time had accepted BSNL&#8217;s Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS)-2019. For this reason, she received ex-gratia compensation of about Rs 39.96 lakh (5+5.94+5+24.02). <\/p>\n<p>However, while filing her income tax returns (ITRs), she claimed only the Rs 5 lakh tax exemption under Section 10(10C) and offered the balance amounts of Rs 5.94 lakh and Rs 24.02 lakh to tax for AY 2020-21 and AY 2021-22, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Hemalatha Govindarajulu from Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai who worked in BSNL for quite some time had accepted BSNL&#8217;s Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS)-2019. For this reason, she received ex-gratia compensation of about Rs 39.96 lakh (5+5.94+5+24.02). However, while filing her income tax returns (ITRs), she claimed only the Rs 5 lakh tax exemption under Section 10(10C) and offered the balance amounts of Rs 5.94 lakh and Rs 24.02 lakh to tax for AY 2020-21 and AY 2021-22, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017018,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016994\/revisions\/1017018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}