Class 8 and 9 students at 26 schools all over the country are taking lessons in investor education these days, courtesy the capital market regulator. The optional three-month course teaches these students the importance of money, how to manage it and concepts of budgeting and saving.
Every domestic company is liable to pay a Dividend Distribution Tax @15% on the amount declared, distributed or paid by such company by way of dividends. The effective rate of tax works out to16.995%. The proposed Direct-tax Code also contains similar provision. The only exception is when the dividend is received by a domestic company from its subsidiary.
What is the Budget? Why is it so important? Why does it affect all of us? And, above all, how does one interpret the budgetary lingo flying around? Union Budget is the annual report of India as a country. It contains the government of India’s revenue and expenditure for the end of a particular fiscal year, which runs from April 1 to March 31.
Union Budget is the Annual Financial Statement of India presented every year on the last working day of February. This time, however, the Union Budget will be presented on February 26, as February 28th is a Sunday. Also, since the stock market is closed on Saturday (Feb 27), the finance ministry decided that the Budget should be presented on a day when the markets are open so as to gauge the reaction of the market players. Thus, Budget will be presented on February 26 this year.
In this era of increasing fees, the education of children has become a major component of financial planning. It is important that parents start planning early to ensure that there are no hiccups at the final stages of there child’s education. And that implies planning well in advance. Some points that will help in this planning are as given below:
Consequent to abolition of fringe benefit tax, certain benefits taxed earlier as fringe benefits in the hands of the employer would now be taxable as perquisites in the hands of the employees. For this purpose, new perquisite valuation rules have been notified vide Notification No.94/2009/ F.No.142/25/2009-S.O.(TPL), dated 18.12.2009 with retrospective effect from 1.4.2009. However, the new perquisite valuation rules would be applicable only for November 2010 examination. They would not be applicable for May 2010 examination, since only notifications/circulars issued up to 31st October, 2009 are relevant for May 2010 examination.
Europe have been struggling the worst recession breeze. US economy have shown signs and activities of recovery through its massive stimulus plans and cost cutting measures. Unemployment has touched to all time historic high putting pressures on the US regulatory to look out for some massive packages to stimulate the job market. US have also made some eye catching turn around towards consumer prices and asking the US citizens to go for saving from borrowed consumptions.
For so many months all economist and equity and financial research analysts across the world have been trying hard to accentuate the eyes of the world economy that china is building a asset bubble fuelled by excess over capacity. Now finally it has been accepted by china itself that they have created a bubble larger than them to control. Before I start on I must thanks all the equity research and financial analysts that we all have succeeded to draw the attention of the upcoming asset bubble which will make the process of recovery out of recession difficult.
Last fortnight, the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) delivered an important ruling on tax neutrality in relation to cross border mergers. The significance of ruling in the present context is attributable to tax administration’s ongoing stance that business restructuring is motivated for tax avoidance purposes and hence tax neutrality should be denied.
Insurance companies are in a tizzy after the revenue-hungry income tax department asked for tax deduction at source to be imposed on most of the insurance transactions. This included payments made by insurers to foreign reinsurance companies and also payments made on behalf of insurance companies to hospitals in settlement of ‘cashless’ claims.
