If securities are sold on the exchange within a period of one year of purchase, it is short-term in nature. Short-term capital gains are taxed at 15%. Short-term capital loss can be set off against short-term capital gain & long-term capital gains.
Income tax authorities allow you to self assess your income and accordingly pay taxes. Many people tend to believe that his/her income tax return is a drop in the ocean for the income tax authorities and hence not declaring income or understating income may well be worth because it saves you a few bucks. Deliberately… Read More »
The process of electronically filing Income tax returns through the internet is known as e-Filing. It is a simple process in which, you need to fill up the tax return form provided online and the other required information about income, expenditure and savings. Then, it is just a matter of logging into the income tax… Read More »
Capital gains on stock and mutual funds, even those held for more than a year is proposed to be taxed. Also, capital gains could become part of total income after allowing a deduction at a specific percentage of capital gains without any indexation.
If you file your returns after the last date, you will be charged a penal interest at the rate of 1% per month of delay. However, if such a return is filed after March 31, 2010, apart from the penal interest, you will also be liable for a penalty of Rs 5,000. Remember that having… Read More »
Will Vinod be charged a service tax on the entire amount he pays to the builder even if he pays 25 percent of the money after completion of construction? A property is treated as one under construction until the builder gets a completion certificate. So, any amount that Vinod pays to the builder before the… Read More »
The returns that the infrastructure bonds will give are not clear at present, as they have not been in the market for the past 5 years. However returns in the range of 6 to 8% can be expected. You can expect these bonds to be in the market during the tax saving season – December… Read More »
Almost all the tax saving financial instruments today fall in the EEE tax regime. The taxman is truly the best friend for the investors in these tools. These investments do not tax us, the investors, at the time of investment, during the tenure of the investment and also at the time of the maturity.
To get the best out of the tax savings, it is good to let the partner with the higher pay make a higher contribution towards the home loan resulting in a better tax benefit collectively. In any case as both Niranjan and Chitra are earning, other expenses can be managed with the income of the… Read More »
EPF and PPF are cases of classic asset class mismatch – they are savings tools which are implemented for the long term. So technically they are not ideal investment avenues. However as a salaried person, one does not have an option not to invest in EPF. One could make withdrawals for suitable alternative investments if… Read More »