Everything you claim, in one figure. The new regime allows fewer of these than the old, so the gear beside the field lists the reliefs it still keeps at the top and the old-regime-only ones below, then claims the right ones for whichever regime you file under. A figure typed straight into the box is claimed under the old regime alone.The reliefs both regimes allow are listed first in the gear panel, the old-regime-only ones below it. Common old-regime sections:
- 80C, up to ₹1,50,000: PPF, ELSS, life insurance, home-loan principal, children's tuition fees, NSC, ULIP
- 80CCD(1): your own NPS deposit, up to 10% of salary and inside the same ₹1,50,000 ceiling as 80C (section 80CCE)
- 80CCD(1B), up to ₹50,000 more: your own NPS deposit, outside that ceiling
- 80D, up to ₹25,000 (₹50,000 for senior citizens): health insurance
- 80E: interest on an education loan (8 years, no cap)
- 80G: donations to specified funds
- 80TTA: savings interest up to ₹10,000 (₹50,000 under 80TTB for seniors)
- 80U / 80DD: disability
- 80DDB: medical treatment of specified diseases
- 80GG: rent paid when no HRA is received
- 24(b): home-loan interest on a self-occupied house, up to ₹2,00,000
- 80EEA: extra ₹1,50,000 home-loan interest on a first home
- 10(13A): HRA exemption on rent paid
- 10(5): leave travel allowance
- 10(14)(i): uniform allowance, to the extent actually spent on a uniform you must wear on duty
- 10(14)(ii), children's education: ₹3,000 a month per child from FY 2026-27 (₹100 up to FY 2025-26), up to 2 children
- 10(14)(ii), hostel allowance: ₹9,000 a month per child from FY 2026-27 (₹300 up to FY 2025-26), up to 2 children
- Rule 3(7)(iii), meal or food coupons: ₹200 a meal from FY 2026-27 (₹50 up to FY 2025-26)
- Other Rule 2BB allowances: helper, research and professional-pursuits allowances, to the extent actually spent
Transport allowance has gone. The transport allowance ordinary employees used to claim (₹1,600 a month) was withdrawn when the standard deduction came back in FY 2018-19, so it is fully taxable now. Only the disabled-employee version (₹3,200 a month) survives, and because section 115BAC keeps it, that one is one of the both-regimes reliefs in the panel.
Everything in that list applies under the old regime only. The panel also carries the reliefs both regimes allow:
- 80CCD(2): your employer's NPS contribution, up to 14% of salary (basic + DA) under the new regime; a non-government employer is limited to 10% if the old regime applies. The money must be your employer's, actually paid by them. You cannot claim it for a deposit you make yourself, even into the same NPS account. Employer contributions above ₹7.5 lakh a year, counting PF and superannuation together, are taxed as a perquisite under section 17(2)(vii).
- 80CCH(2): the Central Government's contribution to an Agniveer's Agniveer Corpus Fund
- 10(14) / Rule 2BB: transport allowance for a disabled employee, and conveyance, tour or daily allowance for official duty
Adding up every capped section above gives a ceiling of ₹8,70,000: 80C ₹1,50,000 + 80CCD(1B) ₹50,000 + 80D ₹25,000 + 80DDB ₹1,00,000 + 80GG ₹60,000 + 80TTA ₹10,000 + 80U/80DD ₹1,25,000 + 24(b) ₹2,00,000 + 80EEA ₹1,50,000. HRA 10(13A), LTA 10(5), 80E and 80G have no fixed cap: they depend on your rent, travel and donations.
Click the gear beside the field to enter these section by section: each entry is checked against its own cap, and the allowed total fills the field: the both-regimes part is kept separately, so the new regime claims only what it is entitled to.