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A partnership firm is a type of entity where more than one person is carrying out business under one entity. Partnerships firms in India are of two types - Registered partnership firms and unregistered partnership firms. Registering a Partnership is the right choice for small enterprises as the formation is straightforward and there are minimal regulatory compliances. The Partnership Act has been in existence in India since 1932, making partnerships one of the oldest types of business entities in India. A partnership firm can even be registered after it is formed. There are as such no penalties for non Registration of a Partnership firm. But unregistered Partnership firms are denied certain rights under section 69 of the Partnership Act that majorly deals with the effects of non Registration of Partnership firms. The income tax defines a Partnership firm as “Persons who have entered into a partnership with one another are called individually “partners” and collectively “a firm”, and the name under which their business is carried on is called the “firm name”. Hence, a firm that does not have a registration certificate from the registrar is an unregistered Partnership firm.
Similar to a private limited company or LLP, partnership firms are also required to pay alternate minimum tax at the rate of 18.5% of "adjusted total income". Alternate minimum tax would be increased by the applicable surcharge, education cess, and secondary and higher education cess.
While calculating the payable income tax an individual must check the available deductible income
For Partnership income tax return filing should be done through Form ITR-5. This form ITR-5 is used to partnership firm income tax returns and not the tax returns for the partners. Like all other income tax forms, ITR 5 is an attachment-less form and there is no requirement to submit any documents or statements along with the partnership firm tax returns. However, the taxpayers must save the records about business and produce the same before the tax authorities when requested. ITR-5 can be filed online with the income tax department's online portal. The documents need to be submitted only when they are asked for. While filing the Partnership firm tax returns the partners must have class 2 digital signatures for verification of the filing process.