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Income Tax - The Income Tax Act specifies home loan tax benefits pertaining to both the principal and interest component of your loan. These help you save on taxes annually and allow you to finance your home even more affordably. As you apply for a home loan, here are 5 important tax benefits that you need to be aware of....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Like every year, this time too, taxpayers were hoping for announcements that would reduce their tax burden. One notable speculation was that the government would use the opportunity to please the salaried taxpayers by enhancing the limits for deduction under Section 80C. The wishlist of the common man was simple – increase the prese...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Article discusses about Deduction in respect of Life Insurance Premium, PPF, NSC, etc. [Section 80C]/ medical insurance premium [Section 80D]/ expenditure on training/ medical treatment of a dependent, being a person with disability [Section 80DD]/ expenditure on medical treatment of specified diseases [Section 80DDB], Amount of deduction...
Read MoreIncome Tax - When it comes to tax saving investments, investors look for liquidity and high returns. An Equity-Linked Saving Scheme (ELSS) is a category of mutual fund that serves both purposes. A tax saver mutual fund is eligible for deduction under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961. This article lists several other reasons why ELSS […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Last two days to save tax. It’s time to submit investment proof, please do not confuse yourself with wrong choice of Investments. I would recommend ELSS as tax saving instrument because of following reasons- Lowest lock-in period When you make any investment, the next thought is how and when you will be able to redeem […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - If a trader makes his transactions in cash on a turnover of Rs.Two Crore, then his income under the presumptive scheme will then be presumed to be Rs. 16 lakhs @ 8% of turnover. ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Senior Citizen Savings Schemes deposits are eligible for deduction under section 80C of Income Tax Act but interest earned on deposit is taxable....
Read MoreIncome Tax - In Mumbai on Wednesday RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said that there is a need for increase in tax exemption limit under section 80C on financial investments by individuals. Currently Section 80C allows investments up to Rs.1.50 lakh. Section 80C was introduced in place of section 88 w.e.f. 1-4-2006. Limit of One Lakh of Investment unde...
Read MoreIncome Tax - LIC’s Jeevan Sugam is a non-linked single premium plan wherein the risk cover is a multiple of premium paid by you. On maturity this plan offers a Maturity Sum Assured chosen by you....
Read MoreIncome Tax - A Parliamentary panel scrutinising the Direct Taxes Code - DTC Bill has suggested raising the income tax exemption limit to 3 lakh rupees from the present 1.8 lakhs. It has also suggested hiking of deduction on savings to 2.5 lakh rupees....
Read MoreA. Ashok Simha Reddy Vs. DCIT (ITAT Hyderabad) - The learned Counsel for the assessee has filed a chart depicting various issues arising in all of these appeals and it is seen that most of the issues are repetitive in all the years. Therefore, we are disposing of the appeals on the basis of the issues arising therefrom....
Read MoreM/s. Kodakkad Service Co-operative Bank Ltd. Vs The Income Tax Officer (TDS) (ITAT Cochin) - Admittedly, the contributions of the assessees to the Provident Fund are not a recognized Fund, the same are not eligible for deduction u/s. 80C (2) (vi) of the I.T. Act. ...
Read MoreG.S.R.323(E) - (18/03/2016) - Sukanya Samridhi Account may be opened by the guardian in the name of a beneficiary who has not attained the age of ten years as on the date of opening of the Account:...
Read MoreNotification No. 91/2015 - Income Tax - (08/12/2015) - Notification No. 91/2015 - Income Tax Central Government hereby specifies the HDFC Retirement Savings Fund, set up by the HDFC Mutual Fund registered under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996 having registration No. MF/044/00/6, dated the 30th June 2000, as a...
Read MoreNotification No. 09/2015 - Income Tax - (21/01/2015) - Notification No.09/2015 - Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (viii) of sub-section (2) of section 80C of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby specifies the 'Sukanya Samriddhi Account' for the purposes of the said clause....
Read MoreNotification No. 90/2014-Income Tax - (23/12/2014) - Notification No. 90/2014-Income Tax S.O.(E) In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (xiv) of sub- section (2) of section 80C of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby specifies the Reliance Retirement Fund set up by the Reliance Mutual Fund registered under the Se...
Read MoreNotification No. 63/2014-Income Tax - (13/11/2014) - Notification No. 63/2014-Income Tax Finance Minister has increased Limit Under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act to Rs. 1.50 Lakh vide Budget 2014 w.e.f. Assessment Year 2015-16 and now CBDT has inconformity with the 80C amendment increased the Limit for Investment in Bank Term Deposit for the Purp...
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