With start of new financial year 2012-13, a lot would change from today in personal finance space. Here is the list. Good News: Increased Interest on Small Savings Scheme like PPF, NSC, etc: The government has increased interest rates on post office deposits like PPF, NSC, Fixed Deposit, Recurring Deposit, and Senior citizen Scheme in [...]
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Allotment of IDFC Infra Bond Tranche-2 (u/s 80CCF) bonds was done on March 24, 2012. You can check the allotment status of IDFC Infra Bond Tranche-2 here. Select IDFC Limited-Infra Bond Tranche-2 /2011 from the list. One need either application number, pan number or demat number to view the allotment status. Dispatch date showing in [...]
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LIC had launched single premium life insurance plan - LIC Jeevan Vriddhi, which has death benefit of 5 times the single premium. With the new rules on Life Insurance in Budget 2012, the minimum death benefit should be at least 10 times the annual premium paid. This rule is however effective from April 1, 2012. So [...]
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The proposed Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) is expected to come with safeguards that will permit small investors to purchase shares only in the top 100 stocks traded on BSE and NSE. An exception is, however, expected to be made for public sector companies with the government likely to relax the rule to allow trading [...]
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PFS with its infrastructure bond has given you one more option for investment under Section 80CCF in March 2012 as the closing dates have been extended to March 23, 2012. Earlier it was to close on February 29, 2012. PFS Infrastructure Bond Details: Should you invest in PFS Tax Saving Infrastructure Bond? Most of the other Infra bonds offer [...]
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In an attempt to encourage participation of retail investors in the capital markets, the government has proposed a tax exemption scheme for equity markets targeted at new investors. Called the Rajiv Gandhi Equity Saving Scheme (RGESS), those investors whose annual income is less than Rs. 10 lakh can invest in it. You will be able [...]
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IDFC with its infrastructure bond has given you one more option for investment under Section 80CCF in March 2012. IDFC Infrastructure Bond Details: IDFC Infrastructure Bond Features: The bonds don’t attract any TDS in case the investments are in demat form The bonds are available in Demat & Physical form The bonds will be listed [...]
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If you were celebrating the tax cuts for next year (FY 2012-13) in Budget 2012, there is some bad news! Infrastructure Bonds would not be eligible as Tax saving instrument under Section 80CCF from FY 2012-13. What was the benefit? Two years ago there was an additional deduction introduced to encourage investors to put money into [...]
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ELSS (Equity Linked Saving Scheme) also popularly known as Tax Saving Mutual Funds are one of the best investments you can do to save tax and create wealth in the long run. But unfortunately according to the proposed direct tax code ELSS would be a thing of past and it would no more be eligible as [...]
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Retirement planning is one of the most important financial goals in life of a person. Most of us have heard about Employee Provident Fund (EPF) and (Public Provident Fund) PPF for building retirement corpus but do you know how can you leverage Voluntary Provident Fund (VPF) to add zing to your corpus? What is Voluntary [...]
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If you have still not invested in infrastructure bonds and still looking for investing for saving income tax , you have four options: IFCI Infrastructure Bond – Series V L&T Infrastructure Bond PFS Infrastructure Bond IDFC Infrastructure Bond – Tranche III Just in case you missed it, an investment in infrastructure bonds under Section 80CCF is an additional [...]
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On March 1, 2012 Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has launched a new Single premium life insurance plan – LIC Jeevan Vriddhi. Lets look at the product in detail and then decide if you should invest in LIC Jeevan Vriddhi LIC Jeevan Vriddhi: Benefits Maturity Benefit: On maturity, the Guaranteed Maturity Sum Assured along with Loyalty Addition, [...]
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If you still looking for investing in Infrastructure Bonds for saving income tax in February 2012, you have option from five companies. IFCI Rural Electrification Corporation L&T Infrastructure Finance Company Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) SREI Infrastructure Finance Just in case you missed it, an investment in infrastructure bonds under Section 80CCF is an additional window [...]
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SBI recently advertised how the fixed deposits offered by SBI under Section 80C helps you save tax and the effective yield. But this is pre tax return. The interest you get is taxable in case of above deposits. Since they have assumed tax bracket of 30%, your post tax yield would come to 14.15% (from [...]
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