How we check our numbers

Money decisions are only as good as the figures behind them. Every rate, slab and date on Salarist comes from an official source, carries the date we last verified it, and links to where it came from.

Our sources

• Income tax: the Income-tax Act, 2025, the annual Finance Act and Union Budget documents, and the Income Tax Department.
• Small savings rates: quarterly office memoranda from the Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs).
• Holidays: Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) orders for central government offices, and state government notifications when we add a state.

How we verify

• We check each figure against the source document before it goes on the site, never from memory or old articles.
• All tools read from one shared set of figures, so a correction reaches every page at once.
• Each tool shows a “verified on” date. If a source changes, we update the figure and the date together.

When we recheck

• Tax: after every Union Budget and Finance Act.
• Small savings rates: every quarter, when the Ministry of Finance announces them.
• Holidays: when the yearly DoPT order is issued, and if any date is changed.

Terms we use

From 1 April 2026 the Income-tax Act, 2025 replaced the 1961 Act and uses “tax year” in place of “assessment year” and “previous year”. We use tax year 2026-27 for income earned from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027, and we quote section numbers from the 2025 Act.

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