U/S 80C | Fixed Deposit, Mutual Funds, Insurance, Personal Finance, Loans, Income Tax

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]