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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 [...]

Best Tax Saving Mutual Fund ELSS Fund to invest in 2011-12

Best Tax Saving Mutual Fund / ELSS Fund to invest in 2012-13

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 tax saving instrument under section 80C of Income tax. Nevertheless Financial [...]

Investing in ELSS – Growth, Dividend Payout or Dividend Reinvestment?

In response to one of my previous post about Tax Savings Mutual Fund (ELSS), I got a query – While investing in an ELSS which option should I choose – Growth, Dividend Payout or Dividend Reinvestment? This is a question that haunts most of the new/ First time investors. Actually the problem is most of [...]

Personal Finance: Changes from April 2012

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 [...]

Savings Bank Account becomes Tax Efficient: Budget 2012

There is some good news in terms of Interest you earn on Savings bank account. Till now all the interest income earned from your saving bank was taxable. However Budget 2012 proposes that saving bank interest income up to Rs 10,000 will not be taxed under a new section, 80TTA. This benefit would be available [...]

Life Insurance: Changes in Budget 2012

Life Insurance in India is more to do with Tax saving and Investment rather than actual “Insurance”. Budget 2012 has taken cognizance of this fact and has proposed to increase the sum assured limit as a multiple of the premium in order to enjoy tax benefits. Under section 80C of the Income-tax Act, premiums paid [...]

Infra bonds not eligible for tax benefit FY2012-13

Infrastructure Bonds (Sec 80CCF) no more Tax Saving Instrument – FY 2012-13

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 [...]

Best Tax Saving Mutual Fund / ELSS Fund to invest in 2011-12

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 [...]

Which Tax Saving Fund / ELSS Fund to invest?

It’s the time of the year when companies start asking employees to submit their proofs for investments for tax saving. And all of a sudden you realize you haven’t actually even thought about it. What follow is chaos & wrong investments. The storey is almost at this stage for one of my colleagues. We need [...]

Opprtunity to invest less and save more Taxes – Sundaram Taxsaver Fund

Today Economic Times has a big advertisement of Sundaram BNP Paribas Taxsaver declaring dividend of 20% i.e. Rs 2 per unit. The payout date is 29th January 2010. As this is a good ELSS Fund and I have also recommended it in my previous posts. So people looking for Dividend Payout or Reinvestment option can [...]

Invest Less Save more tax by using Dividend Reinvestment for ELSS (Tax Saving Fund)

The “Investments for Tax Saving” Season is on and this post is in continuation with the previous few posts on ELSS (Tax Saving Funds). In one of the post I had said that you should either go for Growth or Dividend Payout Option but never with Dividend reinvestment option while investing in an ELSS. But [...]

Best Tax Saving/ ELSS Funds by Dividend Payout

In the recent few posts I wrote about the best ELSS funds to invest and then about how you can invest less and save more tax by opting for Dividend Payout option of Tax Saving Funds. In continuation with the same I have compiled the dividend payout history for last 5 financial years of some [...]