Which is the best investment option when inflation is inching up? Should you put your money in gold, mutual funds or buy a house? How can buying a house help you in saving tax? Can you save tax by renting a property?
In an online chat with Get Ahead readers, Balwant Jain, CFO and tax expert, ApnaPaisa.com, answered queries on the benefits of leave travel allowance.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Through this transaction, Amazon has managed to acquire around a 3.6 per cent stake in the Future group.
You can still file your return for last year. However, since you are filing late, interest on refund will be given from date of filing of return and not from 01/04/2007. If you are filing returns for the first time, you can file return in the city where you are currently residing, says tax expert Vikas Gandhi.
Income tax return has to be filed per person and not per income. Hence one has to file only one return with all the income included, says direct tax expert Vikas M Gandhi.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
If you have traded in shares, your income will be considered as business income. Hence you will have to prerpare a profit and loss account, similar to that prepared by a trader and cliam all the expenses that you incurred for purchase and sale of shares. However while doing keep in mind that you will not be able to claim Securities Transaction Tax (STT) as expenses from the income, says direct tax expert Vikas Gandhi.
The exhaustive list was uploaded on the official web portal of the department.
An official panel on Tuesday ruled out any increase in value added tax (VAT) rates as part of a package to compensate states on account of revenue loss due to a one per cent cut in Central Sales Tax that was to have happened in the beginning of this fiscal.
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You cannot get any benefit u/s 80C for fees paid for your own studies. this deduciton is available only when tuition fees is paid for your children, says direct tax expert Vikas Gandhi.
Gifts are not allowed as an expenditure and hence you can not claim any benefit out of gift given, says direct tax expert Vikas Gandhi.
'The fact that you did not receive the rent through a bank will not take away the taxability of the rent in your hands.'
The finance ministry on Friday informed a parliamentary committee that smuggling of fake currency has totally stopped post demonetisation and the tax department has seized Rs 515 crore in cash, including Rs 114 crore of new currency notes, up to January 10.
Wealth tax is exempt upto Rs.1500000/-. Any excess wealth will attract tax at the rate of 1 per cent of the net wealth. This rate is irrespective of the slab rate of income tax in which you fall, says tax expert Vikas Gandhi.
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M&M's profit before tax from the farm equipment segment rose 31% last year to Rs 2,562 cr
'Housewives depositing cash up to a limit of Rs 250,000 need not worry.' 'It is understood that in India housewives save money which they get from their husbands for household expenses.' 'The intent of the government is not to question them.'
You do not have to pay Income Tax on investment in shares, says tax expert Vikas Gandhi.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Is the curated and limited data put out by the central government sufficient enough to pass a judgement on the trend in GST collections, particularly that of the Centre?
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
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Terming the Bill as a 'non political bipartisan issue,' he hoped to have all political parties on board as the Bill would benefit over 75 per cent of rural households and 50 per cent of urban households in the country.
Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman said the drive against tax evasion is an ongoing process and the government has taken various steps under a multi-pronged strategy to deal with the issue of black money.
Officials say telco still keen on process.
Industries Minister P Thangamani told the assembly. He was responding to a query by A Sounderrajan of CPI-M.
the three investors that have submitted their final bids are not commercial banks. Among the three, one is a non-banking financial company. Another distinctive feature of the revival is that PMC may lose its cooperative bank characteristic after its reconstruction.
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Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
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Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
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