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  • Income Tax Form for Assessment Year 2015-2016

    Income tax  forms for Assessment year 2015-2016 is released by income tax department. For Assessment year 2015-2016, every person (not being a co.) to e-file (Electronic Income tax Return) the income tax return if its total income exceeds Rs. 5,00,000. While filing the return care should be taken to ensure that you select correct Income tax forms. Please use […]

  • Income tax calculator for Financial year 2015-2016

    Income tax calculator for Financial year 2015-2016   Please feel free to use Income tax Calculator. For convenience of Tax Payers we have made this in excel. This completely downloadable and you are free to share with your friends and relatives. Download Income Tax Calculator for Year 2015-2016  : [sociallocker] Download excel based Income tax Calculator for […]

  • No change in rate of Service Tax from 1 April 2015

    Clarification- No change in rate of Service Tax Finance bill, 2015 has proposed to increase effective rate of Service Tax from 12.36% to 14%. It is wrongly reported in some quarters that the effective date of change in rate of Service Tax is 1st April, 2015. It is hereby clarified that the change in the […]

  • New Service Tax Rate Applicability

    The effective service tax rate, if and when the Swacch Bharat Cess is introduced, will not exceed 14.28%. This should be good news for those who feared that the service tax rates could go up to 16% after the cess is imposed. The cess may be imposed sometime after June, it is widely felt. Experts […]

  • NPS is the best retirement option compared to EPF & PPF

    NPS is the best retirement option: One of the cheapest pension products: – NPS charges just 0.25% as fund management fee making it one of the cheapest pension products in the world. Mutual funds can charge up to 2.25% and life insurers can charge up to 1.35%. Choice of fund managers: – Private sector NPS […]

  • File tax returns before 31st march 2015

    Why need to file tax returns before 31st march 2015? If you are yet to file income-tax return for the previous financial year 2013-2014 (assessment year 2014-15), you still have a chance to do so by March 31. The return for income earned in the financial year ending on 31 March should ideally be filed […]

  • LIC Jeevan Lakshya

    LIC Jeevan Lakshya is a participating non-linked plan which offers a combination of protection and savings. This plan provides for Annual Income benefit that may help to fulfill the needs of the family, primarily for the benefit of children, in case of unfortunate death of Policyholder any time before maturity and a lump sum amount […]

  • Income Tax Rates for current year 2015-2016 (Assessment year 2016-2017)

    Income Tax Rates for Assessment year 2016-2017: Income Tax Rates/Slab for Assessment Year 2016-17  Rates/ %age Up to 2,50,000 Up to 2,50,000 (for women) Up to 3,00,000 (for resident individual of 60 years till 80 years) Nil 250,001 – 5,00,000Up to 500,000 (for resident individual of 80 years and above, Tax is nil) 10%Nil 5,00,001 […]

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