You can avail income tax benefits on your domestic travel expense. To avail the tax benefit, you must submit relevant travel documents depending on the mode of transport. The mandatory documents to submit the claims are:
You can also upload bills that exceed your LTA limit as set by your organization but you receive reimbursement on annual limit only. Limit on the number of claim varies with organisation's guideline, contact your HR for more information. Annual limit remains the same irrespective of number of claims in a year.
Submitting LTA claim is essentially a 3-step process. These are as follows:
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Click Claim Travel Reimbursement.
Click Add Return or Connecting Trips, if you've any! Follow Step 5 to enter the return travel details and then click Add Trip. Otherwise, click NEXT to proceed to the next.
In the case of connecting flight, only mention source and destination as a single trip. Don’t specify the connecting city mentioned in the ticket. |
Click Add Another Trip if you need to add new travel details. Follow Steps 5 & 6 as appropriate. Otherwise, click NEXT to proceed to the next.
You've completed updating the travel details. Now you'd need to provide the traveller details in the next section.
Click Add Dependent if any of your dependents travelled with you. Enter the dependent details including the relationship w.r.t. you and then click ADD DEPENDENT. Otherwise, click NEXT to proceed to the next.
You've completed updating the traveller details. Now you'd need to upload the mandatory travel documents to finally submitting the LTA claim in the next section.