Q.Present, in a single comparative table, the total income chargeable to tax in India for each of the three residential statuses (ROR, RNOR, NR) using the income items from the previous three questions, and explain in one or two sentences why the amounts differ.

Placing all three results side by side makes the widening scope of taxable income, status by status, immediately visible.

The difference across the three rows traces directly to how far each status's scope of total income reaches beyond India: a ROR's scope reaches every item of global income without exception; an RNOR's scope reaches Indian income plus the one specific carve-back for a business controlled from India (or a profession set up in India); and a NR's scope never reaches beyond India at all, so even the India-controlled foreign business profit — taxab …

Assuming the three totals should differ only by small amounts — in fact the gap can be very large (here, more than half of ROR's total income disappears by the time status narrows to NR), which is exactly why correctly …