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Tax Planning: How to Save Taxes for FY 2013-14 (AY 2014-15)?

Everyone wants to save taxes but don’t want to spend time to understand How they can do it! In fact saving and investing money is as important if not more than earning it. Keeping this in mind I have prepared a 43 slides presentation covering all sections under which you can save tax for this [...]

Whose name can Tax Saving investment be done?

We know that we can save taxes by investing in various instruments. But a few days back I got queries on whose name can various investments eligible for tax saving investment be done. There are people who want to invest in their wife’s or child’s name or jointly and claim tax exemption on the same. [...]

Best Tax Saving Fixed Deposit Rates U/S 80C – March 2013

Its last month of the Financial Year and in case you have not yet invested completely for your 1 Lakh Tax exemption u/s 80C and looking for Tax Saving Fixed Deposit (FD) Schemes, here is the list of top 30 banks with their Interest Rates. The best Tax Saving Fixed Deposit Interest offered is 9.50% [...]

SBI Tax Saving Fixed Deposit - March 2013

SBI revises Tax Saving Fixed Deposit Rate to 8.75%

State bank of India (SBI) has revised the interest rate on its Tax Saving Fixed Deposit Scheme to 8.75% for General Public while interest rate for Senior citizens has remained the same at 9.00%. As I have pointed out earlier, if you see the advertisement by SBI, it promises annual yield of 17.39% for Senior [...]

Budget 2013: Are you eligible for Rs 2000 Tax Rebate under Sec 87A?

The highlight of budget 2013 for common man was the Tax Rebate of Rs 2,000 for people with income of less than Rs 5 lakhs. This has been made possible by inserting a new section 87A in the Income Tax Act of 1961. I posted the Income Tax calculator for FY 2013-14 and received a [...]

Budget 2013: Additional 1 Lakh exemption on Home Loan U/S 80EE

I have written earlier that this budget 2013 did not tinker much with income tax rates but thankfully has given incentive to buy your first house. The new section 80EE: Until now you could claim deduction on interest of your home loan to maximum of Rs 1.5 lakhs every year [under sec 24 of Income [...]

LIC Jeevan Sugam – Review

LIC (Life Insurance Corporation) has launched LIC Jeevan Sugam which is a non linked Single Premium Limited Period Plan. This is third plan launch from LIC in last two months. The last two launches were LIC New Jeevan Nidhi Plan [a pension plan] & LIC Flexi Plus Plan [Unit Linked Insurance Plan]. These launches are [...]

UTI Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme NFO

Mutual Funds eligible for RGESS (Sec 80CCG)

Earlier I had written about details of Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) under Section 80CCG and steps to invest in the same. Here is a list of Mutual Fund Schemes which are eligible for RGESS. Though there is no limit of how much you can invest in these schemes but the maximum benefit for [...]

How your wife can help you save taxes?

We all want to save taxes and thankfully we need not look too far. Did you know your wife can help you save your taxes? Income Tax Clubbing Rule: If your wife has no income and you invest in her name then the income earned on such investment is clubbed to your income. This is [...]

Tax Benefit on Education Loan (Sec 80E)

With rising cost of professional courses and increasing acceptance of loans, Education loan has become quite popular among students and their parents. Other than giving an opportunity for better education, it also gives you tax deduction under sec 80E of Indian Income Tax Act once you start earning. This post covers all the questions you [...]

UCO Tax Saver Deposit Scheme – Interest & Annual Yield [Miss-selling Advertisement]

Its Tax Saving Season and all financial institutions are trying to en-cash this opportunity. If you are risk averse then five year tax saving deposit is one of the best avenues to save tax. UCO bank in its advertisement has published its annual yield, but has conveniently ignored to print the actual interest offered. I [...]

HRA Declaration Form – If Landlord does not have PAN Card Number

January is the time when companies ask their employees to submit investment proofs and rent receipts for claiming income tax benefit/ exemption. Claiming HRA in case you pay a rent of more than Rs. 2,00,000 is cumbersome now. This is due to a new regulation last year from Income Tax Department stating that you need [...]

8 Questions about Tax Exemption on HRA

Its time when companies ask their employees to submit their investment proofs, rent receipts for claiming HRA benefit, Home Loan proofs and all other related documents. And this is when many of us have related to Home Loan, HRA etc. In this post I have answered the following eight questions on HRA (House Rent Allowance). [...]

Rajiv Gandhi Equity Saving Scheme - RGESS

Save Tax: Invest in Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS)

Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme, 2012 (RGESS) is a new tax saving investment scheme announced in the Budget 2012-13. RGESS would offer tax benefit under the Income Tax Act, 1961 under new section of 80CCG. (Read more here) RGESS Eligibility: ‘New Retail Investors’ who invest maximum of Rs 50,000 in ‘Eligible Securities’ and have gross [...]

Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS): Eligible Stocks & Mutual Funds List

Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme, 2012 (RGESS) is a new tax saving investment scheme announced in the Budget 2012-13. RGESS – List of eligible Stocks: Below is the list of stocks eligible for investment under RGESS on virtue of them being included in CNX-100 or BSE-100 Index. Most of listed Maharatna, Navratna or Miniratna are already [...]

LIC Flexi Plus Plan – Review

January to March are the months when people rush to make Tax Saving Investments. Insurance companies know this and they launch newer products to get a pie of this. Keeping with these traditions LIC has launched Flexi Plus – a Unit Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP). LIC Flexi Plus – Features: Sum Assured is 10 times [...]

12 Changes in 2012 that impacts your Investment

Today is the last day of 2012 and thanks to SEBI, RBI, and Finance Ministry among others which made some significant changes in your personal finance and investment. I have listed 12 of them. 1. One Scheme One Plan for Mutual Funds: Mutual Funds till now had multiple version of the same scheme – one [...]

How to claim HRA if your Landlord does not have PAN Card?

Its time that companies have started asking for Income Tax Investment proofs along with your HRA (House Rent Allowance) proof. As most of you might be aware as per notification from Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) made it mandatory for for anyone paying more than Rs. 1,80,000 rent per annum to provide rent receipts along with [...]

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