Income Tax : The case highlights how expanded benami provisions expose informal family arrangements to confiscation and penalties. Courts stres...
Income Tax : Tax-loss harvesting helps investors offset losses against gains to reduce tax liability. The key takeaway is that strategic timing...
Income Tax : Many tax-saving investments carry hidden costs like STT, expense ratios, and exit loads. The analysis highlights that these charge...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court clarified that tax planning is valid only when backed by real commercial substance. It held that artificial stru...
Income Tax : Tax loss harvesting allows investors to sell loss-making shares to offset capital gains and reduce tax liability. This strategy he...
Income Tax : Trusts and institutions carrying out charitable activities will face more stringent taxation regime when the new direct taxes code...
Finance : Money managers, who have historically used dividends as a ploy to lure investors to tax-saving stock funds, are shying away from p...
Income Tax : Bhoruka Steel Limited (BSL) was incorporated in the year 1969. The company became a sick industrial company within the meaning of...
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 ...
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Its a fact that Your own parents as well as your own in-laws can become legal tools of tax planning for you and your family. If you want to achieve this dictum then all you are need to do is just to give away a portion of your funds, either as a gift or a loan, to your parents as well as your parents in law so that in years to follow your income tax burden becomes lighter as the income on funds transferred by you to them which would bring in income would be taxed in their hands.
Salary income is taxable in the hands of an individual in the year of receipt or earning of salary income, whichever is earlier. Here are some of the safe components of your salary structure which can minimse your tax burden and help you plan your Salary Structure –
Tax Planning is an important agenda of any individual. People often end up paying taxes even after exhausting their limits under Section 80C, 80 D and so on. However, do you know that a very important tool which is often overlooked, is formation of a HUF, which is a legitimate way of reducing your tax liability.
Most of us are aware of the tax deductions available for home loan principal and interest payments. However, tax laws for fully-constructed, under-construction, self-occupied and let-out apartments all differ from each other. Knowing the nitty-gritty of these tax laws can help you claim all the deductions you stand eligible for. Here’s a closer look: Home […]
In this article we have discussed right Myth or Mis-Conceptions related to Income Tax Prevalent in the Mind of General Taxpayers related to Personal Taxation. Article Aims to clear such Mis-Conceptions. The following are some of the myths and real facts related to same:- .
People buy a second home for many reasons, which, inter-alia, include as an investment for capital appreciation; to use it as a holiday home; to get a regular stream of income by way of rentals; or to diversify their investment portfolio. However, it is important for an individual, who is planning to buy a second home, to understand the tax implications under the Income-Tax Act 1961 of owning and maintaining the second home.
Section 80 C provides for deduction of upto Rs. 1.50 lakhs in respect of life insurance premium along with various other items. For Life insurance premium the deduction can be claimed even where the payments are made for your children.
As the date 31st March comes closer tax assessees try to find different ways to save their hard-earned money from being taxed (of course in a Positive manner) and that’s why here I am for explaining various ways through which an assessee can save his/her tax lawfully. Now whenever we talk about tax savings, we […]
We all know about the popularly know deductions like deduction u/s. 80C & 80D. But many times we use to forget to claim many other deductions which are available under the Income Tax Act, which can reduce our tax burden significantly. In this article we discussed 10 such lesser know deductions which taxpayers tend to forget to claim while filing there Income Tax Return.
