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What this document does
A sworn statement of what you earned in a financial year and where it came from. Used for scholarships, fee concessions, EWS applications and court-fee waivers, where no Form 16 or income certificate is available.
Declaration
The date you sign and verify it — printed in the verification paragraph. Today's date is filled in; change it if you are signing on another day.
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Income Declaration
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What else is in it — 6 clauses, 3 optional
- 01
Deponent
The opening recital naming who is making the statement — name, age, parentage and address. The only clause carrying the deponent's personal particulars, and the one that sets whether the document reads as declared, affirmed or sworn.
- 02
Annual income
The total figure for a stated financial year. Renders as digits and words from one value, so the two cannot disagree — the commonest defect in a hand-typed income affidavit.
- 03
Sources of income
Itemises where the income comes from, as bullets under a numbered assertion. A bare total is routinely sent back — the officer is checking the parts add up.
- 04
No other income
Closes the list. Takes no input. The sentence that turns an itemised statement into a declaration a scheme can rely on.
- 05
No fraudulent intent
Disclaims any intent to evade a debt, tax, obligation or proceeding. Takes no input. Banks and passport authorities routinely refuse a document that omits it, which is why it is mandatory rather than optional.
- 06
Verification
Affirms the numbered assertions above are true and nothing material is concealed, and carries the deponent's signature block. This is the paragraph that makes a false statement actionable — sworn or not.
After it is drafted
Getting it sworn before a notary
If the office asks for a sworn affidavit rather than a signed declaration, this is what that involves: non-judicial stamp paper of the value your state sets for affidavits, the signed copy printed on it, and a visit to a notary or oath commissioner with your identity document. They administer the oath and complete the attestation block — that is what turns a declaration into an affidavit, and the only part of any of this that needs stamp paper. Worth asking the office before you go, since many now accept the declaration as it stands.
Sending it in with your application
This goes to the scholarship, concession or court application it was made for. Whatever independent evidence of income you have — bank statements, salary slips, a Form 16 — generally carries more weight alongside it than the declaration does alone.
Applying for an income certificate
An income certificate is issued by your Tehsildar or SDM, usually through the state e-district portal, and is a different thing from this declaration: one is your statement, the other is the state's. Where a scheme asks for the certificate, this declaration is commonly among the documents that application wants.