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Finance : At present, premature closure of a Public Provident Fund (PPF) account is permitted on specified grounds on completion of five fin...
Finance : As per PPF Act, the PPF account can’t be closed prematurely before completion of five financial years. If depositor wants to clo...
Income Tax : Government has decided to effect a reduction of 0.1 percentage points in interest rates across the board in all Small Savings Sch...
Finance : The interest rates of Public Provident Fund (PPF), Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP), Senior Citizens Savings Scheme, 2004 (SCSS 2004), and ...
Income Tax : On the basis of the decision of the Government, interest rates for small savings schemes are to be notified on quarterly basis. Ac...
Corporate Law : It is in the said situation that the captioned writ petition has been filed by the petitioners seeking a direction to re-credit th...
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Finance : Public Provident Fund account shall not be liable to any attachment in respect of any debt or liability incurred by the account ho...
Finance : The Government has kept interest rates on all Small Savings Schemes unchanged for July-September 2026. Investors will continue to ...
Finance : The government has kept small savings interest rates unchanged for April–June 2026, ensuring continued stable returns for invest...
Finance : The government has decided to keep small savings interest rates unchanged for January–March 2026. The move ensures stability and...
Finance : The government has kept interest rates on PPF, NSC, SCSS, Sukanya Samriddhi, and other small savings schemes unchanged for Q3 FY 2...
Income Tax : The Government of India keeps Small Savings Schemes interest rates unchanged for Q1 FY 2025-26 (April–June 2025), as per the Min...
So the finance Minister has ultimately decided to give level playing field in respect of pension products and has proposed withdrawal from employee provident fund balance, created with employee’s contribution made after 1st April 2016, taxable to the extent of 60% and 40% exempt. In my opinion these provisions have either been drafted in a hurry or have deliberately been made to be unjust to salaried people. I have a feeling that the government treats the most honest class of tax payers i.e. salaried as second class citizens. Here is why I feel so.
Interest Rates of Small Saving Schemes to be recalibrated w.e.f. 1.4.2016 on a Quarterly Basis to align the small saving interest rates with the market rates of the relevant Government securities
A Public Provident Fund account on behalf of a minor can be opened by either father or mother. Both the parents cannot open a separate account for the same minor. An individual may open one PPF account on behalf of each minor of whom he is the guardian.
An individual can open only one account in his name either in the post office or in the bank and he has to declare this in application form for opening the account. Persons having a PPF account in the bank cannot open another account in the post office and vice-versa. Only one account can be […]
Public Provident Fund Accounts– requests for premature closure Recently, there has been a considerable increase in the number of cases being forwarded by Circles to the Directorate for taking up with the Ministry of Finance, relating to premature closure of PPF accounts. The Ministry of Finance have noticed that very few of them qualify for […]
When a depositor changes his name, g. on adoption or otherwise or in the case of female depositor, on marriage, the depositor should be required to intimate the fact in writing to the post office and produce the pass book of the account. The intimation should bear the depositor’s signature with the old as well […]
Tax-deduction under Section 80C of Income Tax Act on deposits made after 15 years in PPF account without exercising option for continuance of account:- Paragraph 9(3A) of PPF Scheme, 1968 provides for continuance of account on the expiry of 15 years for a block period of 5 years and so on, if the subscriber exercises an […]
Non Resident Indians are not eligible to open an account under the Public Provident Fund (PPF) Scheme. Provided that if a resident, who subsequently becomes Non Resident Indian during the currency of the maturity period prescribed under Public Provident Fund Scheme, may continue to subscribe to the Fund till its maturity on a Non Repatriation […]
The limit of deposit in PPF of Rs. 1,00,000 (Now 1.50 Lakh) in a year by an individual in his self-account and accounts opened by him on behalf of his minor(s) of whom he is the guardian is combined under rule 3 (1) of the Scheme.
The Government of India have vide their Office Memorandum (OM) No.6/01/2011-NS.II dated March 31, 2015, advised the rate of interest on various small savings schemes for the financial year 2015-16. Accordingly, the rates of interest on PPF 1968, SCSS 2004, Kisan Vikas Patra & Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme for the financial year 2015-16, effective from April 01, 2015, on the basis of the interest compounding/payment built-in in the schemes, will be as under:
