Balwant Jain

The season for filing income tax returns (ITR) is gathering pace as the due date of 31st July is approaching for the majority of taxpayers. Before you actually sit down to file your ITR or visit the office of your tax advisors, you need to do some ground preparation so that the information given in […]...

Mutual Funds are like a department store where many products are on display and every one can get product suitable to his needs, risk appetite, investment horizon.  From product for parking your overnight funds to investing for decades, mutual funds can cater to needs to all investors. As the products offered by mutual fund houses [&hell...

The Supreme Court has on 1st April  2019 has rejected the Special leave petition filed by EFPO against the decision of Kerala High court on quantum of pension payable to an employee after his retirement under employee pension scheme (EPS) 1995. This decision has generated wide spread interest in people working in organised Sector as [&he...

The ITR forms for each year are notified after end of the financial year incorporating changes applicable from the relevant financial year. The Income tax department has notified new ITR forms on 1st April 2019. Since this is a personal finance page, the discussion is restricted to provisions of new ITR which are applicable to […]...

Analysis of recent decision of Supreme Court on Employee Provident Fund Contribution Recent decision of the Supreme Court has tried to settle the long drawn litigation about the allowances which need to be considered for the purpose of contribution under the Employee Provident Fund Scheme. Let us discuss the law and the implications of th...

The government has by a stroke made the taxable income upto Rs. 5 lakhs fully tax free in the hands of small taxpayers without raising the exemption limit. Most of the people have been wondering why the government is not raising the exemption limit instead of playing with Section 87A. I feel the government has […]...

There is a huge confusion in the minds of taxpayers about whether the tax benefits in respect of House Rent Allowance (HRA)  and the benefits attached with a home loan be claimed in the sqme year. This article intends to clear the doubts in this regard....

This interim budget as expected intends to harvest good votes in the election season and has therefore proposed various beneficial proposals for small tax payers It  proposes various provisions which are beneficial for the owners of property. Let us discuss. Enhancement for limit on TDS on rent The Finance Minister (FM) has proposed to e...

The announcement made by the Finance Minister (FM)  of no tax liability for income upto Rs. 5 lakhs created euphoria initially. This  most beneficial proposal in the budget evinced the maximum interest and as well as also created maximum amount of  confusion in the minds of taxpayers till the dust settled down on the proposal […...

Almost all of us keep our money in saving account for meeting various items like EMIs and SIP which gets debited in due course. Since these are temporary fund these cannot be deployed in other products like Fixed Deposits with higher tenure of investment. I intend to explain how the temporary surplus fund in your […]...