Income Tax : HRA exemption and home loan deductions operate under separate sections of the Income Tax Act. Taxpayers may claim both under the o...
Income Tax : The article explains how home loan interest and principal repayments can reduce tax liability under the old tax regime. It also hi...
Income Tax : This case highlights that cash paid to builders as “on-money” will not automatically be treated as tax evasion if it originate...
Income Tax : The New Tax Regime restricts Section 24(b) benefits, disallowing set-off of home loan interest against salary income. Taxpayers mu...
Income Tax : Understand the taxation rules for income from house property, including the basis of charge, computation of Gross and Net Annual V...
Finance : Launched in January 2018, Bajaj Finserv’s new website is a perfect example of consumer satisfaction. Why? Well, it’s because o...
Finance : Mumbai: ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank by consolidated assets, today announced the launch of a new home loan, w...
Finance : ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank by consolidated assets, today announced reduction of interest rates by upto 30 b...
Corporate Law, Income Tax : Credit Linked Interest Subsidy scheme for tax paying Middle Classes made effective from January 1 this year. Those sanctioned hous...
Finance : ICICI Bank launches ‘Mortgage Guarantee’ backed loans for affordable housing sector First bank in India to offer this facilit...
Income Tax : During the appellate proceedings, the assessee has submitted that it has taken loan for purchase of two residential properties whi...
Income Tax : Vishwa Kalyan Society Vs DCIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) Brief facts of the case are, that the assessee is a Charitable Trust, having income...
Income Tax : The issue under consideration is whether the default in home loan by the owner of the property can be the reason to disallow the c...
Income Tax : NOTIFICATION NO. 93/2008, DATED 30-9-2008 Reverse Mortgage means mortgage of a capital asset by an eligible pcrscn against a loan ...
Concerned over excessive flow of banking funds to the real estate sector, the Reserve Bank today said lenders will provide loans only up to 80 per cent of the cost of property. Following the RBI directive, a home buyer will necessarily have to arrang
The levy of a penalty by banks and housing finance companies for foreclosure of home loans does not amount to abuse of dominant position, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) ruled on Tuesday, quashing borrowers’ hopes that the practice could be
Plan your Home Loan Payment Schedule to take maximum tax benefit. Partial or full prepayment makes sense, but only in some cases. When Jabalpur resident Mahavir Ojha received Rs 80 lakhs from selling an ancestral property, he decided to part-pay his
While most banks are in a wait-and-watch mode on their lending and deposit rates after the Reserve Bank of India’s decision on Tuesday to hike key policy rates—repo and reverse repo—by a modest 25 basis points (100 basis points=1%), it is certain tha
Realty firms and property consultants today said both consumers and developers are likely to be affected by the hike in key policy rates by RBI as loans would become dearer, though the impact would be marginal.
Direct Taxes Code Bill, 2009, could soon set the tone for all our future wealth-creation decisions. If enacted, the bill will not only change the amount of tax you pay, but also transform how you invest, borrow and spend your money. While most tax breaks may be taken away, the process of filing taxes will be simpler.
Teaser home loan rates, which entice borrowers with a low fixed rate initially and then move to a floating rate, are a matter regulatory concern and may impact financial stability of the lenders, Parliament was informed on Friday.
In a clear signal of a rising interest rate regime, country’s largest private sector lender, ICICI Bank, on Thursday said it has hiked its auto loan rates by up to 0.5 percent and withdrawn its 8.25 percent special home loan scheme. “Auto loans rack rates have been raised by 0.25-0.5 percent depending on segment and tenor with effect from March 5,” an ICICI Bank spokesperson said.
Home and auto loan customers will have to shell out more with several public sector banks including the State Bank, Punjab National Bank and Bank of India (BoI) deciding to end the concessional or limited period loan regime, popularly called teaser rates.
The government may modify the draft direct tax code to retain tax shelters on interest and principal repayments for home loans to make the proposed new code more attractive for the average Indian, a finance ministry official told .The proposed direct taxes code, which has been unveiled for public debate and is due to become operational from April 2011, does not provide tax incentives to loan-funded house purchases that are for personal use.
