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Tax Implications of Informal Family Property Arrangements in India

Income Tax : The case highlights how expanded benami provisions expose informal family arrangements to confiscation and penalties. Courts stres...

April 6, 2026 600 Views 0 comment Print

Tax-Loss Harvesting: Make Your Losses Work for You

Income Tax : Tax-loss harvesting helps investors offset losses against gains to reduce tax liability. The key takeaway is that strategic timing...

March 31, 2026 1008 Views 0 comment Print

Hidden Charges That Can Kill Your Tax-Saving Strategy

Income Tax : Many tax-saving investments carry hidden costs like STT, expense ratios, and exit loads. The analysis highlights that these charge...

March 23, 2026 801 Views 0 comment Print

Tax Planning vs. Tax Evasion: What the Tiger Global Verdict Really Tells Us

Income Tax : The Supreme Court clarified that tax planning is valid only when backed by real commercial substance. It held that artificial stru...

March 20, 2026 864 Views 0 comment Print

How Tax Loss Harvesting Helps Reduce Capital Gains Tax on Shares?

Income Tax : Tax loss harvesting allows investors to sell loss-making shares to offset capital gains and reduce tax liability. This strategy he...

March 6, 2026 1146 Views 0 comment Print


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DTC will not provide deduction for donation to relegious trust and may tax NGOs

Income Tax : Trusts and institutions carrying out charitable activities will face more stringent taxation regime when the new direct taxes code...

August 26, 2009 1433 Views 0 comment Print

Fund managers not willing to annouce dividend this year

Finance : Money managers, who have historically used dividends as a ploy to lure investors to tax-saving stock funds, are shying away from p...

March 20, 2009 822 Views 0 comment Print


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S. 10(38) Sale of land through sale of shares by company holding only land is valid

Income Tax : Bhoruka Steel Limited (BSL) was incorporated in the year 1969. The company became a sick industrial company within the meaning of...

April 9, 2013 16093 Views 0 comment Print

Supreme Court upheld Dividend-Stripping Law

Income Tax : Wallfort Shares & Stock Brokers, a Five Member Special Bench of the Tribunal (96 ITD 1 (Mum) (SB)) and the Bombay High Court (310 ...

July 8, 2010 6353 Views 0 comment Print


8 Simple ways to save taxes

April 7, 2020 4461 Views 2 comments Print

Everyone is looking out for ways to legally save taxes. Tax savings tips helps you plan your taxes effectively. Are you the one looking for ways and means to save taxes? I do understand it is complicated to understand taxes but here I share some awesome and easy tax saving tips. Investment in Life Insurance: […]

Create HUF to save tax & Format of HUF Creation Deed

March 4, 2020 579224 Views 117 comments Print

1. Under the Income Tax Act, an HUF is a separate entity for the purpose of income tax return. 2. The same tax slabs are applicable to HUF as to individual assessee. 3. You can not transfer your own assets/money into HUF. 4. If you have ancestral property and earning some income from this property, then it is better to transfer this asset to HUF and save tax up to exemption limit applicable to individual.

Income Tax Return for A.Y 2020-21- Tax Provisions for Salaried

February 24, 2020 30636 Views 11 comments Print

Income Tax Return A.Y 2020-21- Few Important Points -Electricity bill exceeding 1 lac, details required to be filed in Return. -In ITR-4, details required to be mentioned if one crore or more deposits in current account. -Cash and bank details in detailed if Return filed u/s 44AD, 44ADA, 44AE. -Standard deductions upto Rs.50000/- -A person, […]

Now is the time to attack! Start firing bullets at your taxes

February 21, 2020 11016 Views 1 comment Print

Act before March-end, so that you don’t have to regret in July! So many clients put their palms on their head, when it is the time to pay taxes and file return, in July. Taxes have already fired at them, they have done nothing to save themselves against the tax shots.

Tax Planning Tips for Pensioners & senior citizens for AY 2021-22

February 16, 2020 17367 Views 5 comments Print

Tax Planning Tips for Pensioners and senior citizens for Assessment Year 2021-2022 If you want to get pension from April 2020, you have to give an anticipatory statement in Treasury or bank in March 2020. Therefore, as a pensioner you need a basic idea about the new finance bill of Feb 2020. Through this article, […]

Taxability of Leave Travel Allowance (LTA) | Section 10(5)

January 27, 2020 716277 Views 311 comments Print

Leave Travel Allowance (LTA) is the most common element of compensation adopted by employers to remunerate employees due to the tax benefits attached to it. Section 10(5) of the Income-Tax Act, 1961, read with Rule 2B, provides for the exemption and outlines the conditions subject to which LTA is exempt. Through this write-up, I want to shed light on the taxability and some other interesting relevant aspects which you as a salaried employee must keep in mind.

Investment Declaration by Salaried- Dribs & Drabs in tax planning

January 24, 2020 6129 Views 3 comments Print

Investment Declaration’s Dribs & Drabs in tax planning (Proof submission for Income Tax Purposes (Correct TDS on Salary Calculation) by Salaried Employee to His Employer) Almost all companies have intimated their employees to submit investment declarations or IT proofs for Financial Year 2019-20.This article states about how to conveniently climb ladder till ITR filling by […]

It’s Not Too Late To Save tax!

January 22, 2020 8835 Views 2 comments Print

The deadline for making tax saving investments is 31 March. But, there is still time to adopt last minute tax saving tips to claims tax benefits offered by the Government. This article discusses some tax investment avenues which can be utilized before 31 March to lower one’s overall tax liability.

Avenues to Save Tax in F.Y. 2019-20

January 14, 2020 6027 Views 0 comment Print

Author discusses 7 Avenues to Save Tax in F.Y. 2019-20 which includes Deduction under Section 80C on Specified Investments or Expenses, Deduction for Contribution to the National Pension System, Deduction for payment of Health Insurance/Mediclaim Premiums, Deduction on Home rent paid by you, Deduction on the interest on your home loan, Deduction on interest Income […]

A new way to do tax planning and why hardly anyone “gets it”

January 12, 2020 9801 Views 0 comment Print

It really hurts to see a large pie of the salary cut towards tax. So the obvious question in everyones mind is How do I reduce my tax?. Every year we are forced to invest in something which reduces our tax liability. It may be NSC…it may be PPF…it may be ulip…it may be Mutual Fund ELSS.

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