@user17591658047 , Namaste ji
(a) Please answer the questions asked by my colleague @Opus 17 . We need to know this because your residency start date depends on when your first day of legal presence in the country. So when did you enter this country ? And with which visa ?
(b) If indeed your start of residency is NOT Jan1st. then generally you cannot take the standard deduction ( because it does not allow allocation) and must use itemized deduction.
(c) Need more details on your pension -- generally distributions from public/ govt. funds is taxable only by the distributing country. So is your pension from civil service ( central like IAS, IFS, IPS etc. or State Govt. services etc. ) , defense services etc. or what?
(d) Have you already filed the Indian ITR and were you taxed on your "pension" ?
I will circle back once I hear from you --yes ?
Is there more I can do for you ?
Namaste ji
pk
