{"id":192,"date":"2026-03-04T20:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:03:49","slug":"tax-quiz-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/tax-quiz-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Quiz 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ChatGPT-Image-Mar-4-2026-08_17_24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ChatGPT-Image-Mar-4-2026-08_17_24-PM.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ChatGPT-Image-Mar-4-2026-08_17_24-PM-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ChatGPT-Image-Mar-4-2026-08_17_24-PM-720x1080.png 720w, https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ChatGPT-Image-Mar-4-2026-08_17_24-PM-768x1152.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer: Option C <\/strong><strong>\u2713<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1 \u2014 Should he have filed the return?<\/strong> No obligation. His income (6% of \u20b958L = \u20b93.48L) is <strong>below exemption limit<\/strong>, so no need to file. Simple.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Option D&#8217;s &#8220;\u20b950L = must file&#8221; is wrong \u2014 that&#8217;s for tax audit, not filing.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2 \u2014 Can he just walk out of 44AD? <\/strong><strong>\ud83d\udea8 The real trap.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes he can exit \u2014 but there&#8217;s a <strong>5-year lock-out penalty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opted IN \u2192 A.Y. 2025-26 Opts OUT \u2192 A.Y. 2026-27 Can re-enter only from \u2192 <strong>A.Y. 2032-33<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many students think the 5 years count from when you <strong>opted in<\/strong> \u2014 wrong. It counts from when you <strong>opt out.<\/strong> That&#8217;s exactly what Option D gets wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One liner to remember:<\/strong> <em>&#8220;You can leave 44AD anytime, but you can&#8217;t come back for 5 years.&#8221;<\/em> \ud83d\udd12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Answer: Option C \u2713 Part 1 \u2014 Should he have filed the return? No obligation. His income (6%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khatriclasses.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}