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Your parents' money, and yours
Health cover after 60, the schemes built for senior citizens, what EPS and NPS actually pay, nominations and papers — and how to start the conversation at home.
22 min
intermediate
HUF: one family, one extra taxpayer
A Hindu Undivided Family is a separate tax entity with its own PAN — and a decades-long family commitment, not the quick tax hack the internet makes it sound.
3 lessons · about 18 minutes · written for reading age 13 · last checked 2026-08-11
A whole family, one taxpayer
An HUF is a family treated as a separate 'person' for tax — its own PAN, its own return, its own basic exemption. Here is what it is and who can have one.
5 min
Karta, coparceners, members — who is who
Coparceners hold a birthright and can demand partition; the karta manages; those who married in have maintenance rights. Daughters are equal since 2005.
6 min
The tax story, honestly
Yes, an HUF has its own exemption and slabs. But salary can never be HUF income, clubbing undoes transfers, partition is irreversible — and misuse gets noticed.
7 min
Check yourself
4 questions at the end. Every wrong answer explains itself.
Sources
- Income Tax Department — HUF (Hindu Undivided Family) — Income Tax Department · checked 2026-08-11
- Income Tax Department — official portal (slab rates and rebate) — Income Tax Department · checked 2026-08-11
- Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (as amended by the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005) — India Code, Ministry of Law and Justice · checked 2026-08-11