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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 [...]

SBI Tax Saving Deposit Scheme – Interest & Annual Yield

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 13.33% (from [...]

Tax Saving Fixed Deposit (FD) u/s 80C – Interest Rates

Tax Saving Fixed Deposit under Section 80C of Income tax is a popular and safe instrument for Tax saving. You can invest maximum of Rs. 1 Lacs in the same. Below is the list of banks and their respective interest rates offer for general and senior citizens for their Tax Saving FDs. The best Tax Saving [...]

Allotment Status Of IDFC Infra Bond Tranche-2

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 [...]

LIC Jeevan Vriddhi: New Advertisement

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 [...]

PFS Tax Saving Infrastructure Bond (U/S 80 CCF) Details

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 [...]

IDFC Tax Saving Infrastructure Bond – March 2012 Details

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 [...]

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 [...]

Infrastructure Bonds available in March 2012 – IFCI, L&T, PFS & IDFC Infrastructure Bond

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 [...]

LIC Jeevan Vriddhi: Should you invest?

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, [...]

Infrastructure Bonds available in February 2012

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 [...]

SBI Tax Saving Deposit Scheme 2012 – Interest & Annual Yield

Click here for Latest SBI Tax Saving Deposit Rate. 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%, [...]

Bajaj Allianz Guaranteed Maturity Insurance Plan Review

Bajaj Allianz Guaranteed Maturity Insurance Plan: It is a single-premium unit-linked insurance plan (Ulip) that promises a maturity corpus of at least twice the premium paid. It also provides an insurance cover during the term. The minimum premium under this plan is Rs 5,000, which is also the cost of one guaranteed maturity certificate. Under [...]

What can you do if your landlord does not give his PAN number?

In December, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) made it compulsory for anyone paying more than Rs. 1,80,000 rent per annum to provide rent receipts along with their landlord’s PAN number for claiming HRA exemption. But as this is a recent notification and most people only came to know about the same once the [...]

SERI Tax Saving Infrastructure Bond – Details & Review

If you have still not invested in Infrastructure Bond for FY 2011 – 12, you are further spoiled for choice. SERI is latest entrant offering 8.9% – 9.15% interest per annum. The table below gives the details of the issue: Face Value Rs. 1,000/- per bond Minimum Application Rs. 1,000/- (i.e. 1 Bond) Issue Schedule [...]

80C Tax savings 5 years Fixed Deposit Interest Rates

In a few weeks most of salaried people have to submit their tax saving investment proofs and this is the time when we all rush to make our investments. Also with stock markets in doldrums for the year a lot of you might be interested in fixed deposits. I have compiled the prevailing interest rates [...]

Interest Rates for Small Savings Schemes – Govt. of India

Recently Government of India has revised interest rates and maturity periods for its small saving schemes. These small saving schemes include – Post Office Savings Account, Post Office Recurring Deposit, Monthly Income Account Scheme, Post Office Time Deposit, NSC, PPF, KVP, Senior citizens savings scheme and more. The post below briefs about all these schemes. Post Office Savings Account [...]

Invest in REC Infrastructure Bond to save tax

There has been a series of Infrastructure launches one after the other. L&T & IDFC had successfully closed their infrastructure bond isues and not its IFCI and REC (Rural Electrification Corporation Limited) Infrastructue Bonds. You can invest in the same upto Rs. 20,000 to save tax. Below are the details of the same. Face Value Rs. [...]

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