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'Disability pension taxable if personnel retired under normal circumstances'

PTI
Published : Jun 26, 2019, 9:34 am IST
Updated : Jun 26, 2019, 9:34 am IST

The pension will be non-taxable only to those personnel who have retired due to any kind of disability.

Armed forces personnel who suffer any kind of disability due to their service receive separate disability pension. (Representational Image | PTI)
 Armed forces personnel who suffer any kind of disability due to their service receive separate disability pension. (Representational Image | PTI)

New Delhi: Disability pension will be taxable to military personnel who superannuated under normal circumstances, defence sources said on Tuesday.

The pension will be non-taxable only to those personnel who have retired due to any kind of disability, they added.

Citing a Finance Ministry circular, dated June 24, sources said, "Tax exemption will be available to armed forces personnel who have been invalided from the service on the account of bodily disability attributable to or aggravated by such service and not to personnel who have been retired or superannuated or otherwise."

Armed forces personnel who suffer any kind of disability due to their service receive separate disability pension. The amount depends on their rank and the kind of disability. 

Tags: tax, disability pension, military, armed forces, income tax
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