Balwant Jain

Based on my conversation with my friends who are salaried I gather the impression that majority of the employees are under the impression that they are not required to file any ITR if appropriate income tax has been deducted from their salaries. Most of them take deduction of tax at source as filing of the ITR by the employer....

The income tax return season is in full swing with 31st July approaching fast. While filing the income tax return salaried people only provide copy of the form No. 16 to the person preparing his income tax returns without any further details. ...

Most of us must have borrowed at some point in life whether it is friendly borrowings from friends and relatives or whether it is a home loan from a financial institution. In this article, I shall discuss the tax benefits available in respect of such loans....

Different forms are required to be used for filing your ITR depending on whether you are a resident or not and what are the sources of your income. There are ITR 1, ITR 2, ITR 3 and ITR 4 which can be used by individuals. Who can use ITR 1 (popularly known as Sahaj.): This […]...

Many of us keep our money either with banks or with cooperative credit societies, be it in fixed deposits or recurring deposits or in saving accounts. Not only this, we also invest in various Government run schemes like NSC, PPF and Senior Citizen Saving schemes. While making these investments everyone wants to plan these investments in ...

In order to detect cases of disproportionate assets owned by a taxpayers as compared to his known sources of income, the income tax department wants taxpayer with income over 50 lakhs to report various assets and liabilities in Income Tax Return (ITR). The requirement of Disclosure of assets in the ITR was implemented in 2016 […]...

Income tax laws allow you various benefits in respect of amounts spent or invested. Primarily these tax benefits are available for amounts spent or invested on yourself but for certain items, the benefits are available for amounts invested or spent on family members. ...

Section 80 C provides for deduction of upto Rs. 1.50 lakhs in respect of life insurance premium along with various other items. For Life insurance premium the deduction can be claimed even where the payments are made for your children. ...

Though investing in equity through mutual funds via Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) is getting pace of late, mutual fund houses have been vary of the investor discontinuing the SIP when the market corrects or is volatile. So to ensure that the investors do not discontinue SIP, the mutual funds are offering free life insurance cover in...

The Indian income tax laws provide certain tax benefits to senior citizens. Let us discuss those benefits. 1. Higher Basic Exemption Limits for senior citizens under income tax For ordinary individual tax payers the basic exemption limit, upto which he is not required to pay any tax, is presently capped at Rs. 2.50 Lakhs.  However [&hell...