Category Archives: Investments

Sugam IT Form — All about Sugam

What is Sugam? Sugam means acces­si­ble is a sim­pli­fied busi­ness income tax return form ( ITR 4S). Why Sugam was ini­ti­ated? To align the sys­tem to web plat­form To pop­u­larise e-payment and e-filing of income tax and tax deduc­tion at source (TDS) returns. Ben­e­fits of Sugam Sim­pler and Tax Friendly Forms Faster Pro­cess­ing

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Income tax Filing for the year 2010 –2011

As per Income Tax Act 1961, it is oblig­a­tory for all salaried per­sons to file income tax return. Going for­ward, start­ing from the assess­ment year 2010 –2011, salaried employee whose annual income is up to Rs 5 lakh. In a recent cir­cu­lar from the Cen­tral Board of Direct Taxes – “No

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SCSB — Self certified Syndicate Bank

Self cer­ti­fied Syn­di­cate Bank (SCSB) is a bank, which is rec­og­nized as a bank capa­ble of pro­vid­ing ASBA ser­vices to its cus­tomers. The list of SCSBs are as below :- * Alla­habad Bank * Andhra Bank * Axis Bank * Bank of Maha­rash­tra * Bank of Bar­oda * Bank of India

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Active Investment

Actively invest­ing in finan­cial instru­ments like stocks, bonds, Mutual Funds are called as Active Invest­ments. In case of Active Invest­ments, the investor knows exactly the types of finan­cial instru­ment where he/she is invest­ing and also under­stands the instru­ments clearly and buy/sell invest­ments actively. The investor invests with a goal to

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Active vs Passive Investing

Both active as well as pas­sive invest­ing are two dif­fer­ent types of invest­ing styles. Let’s under­stand what active invest­ing and pas­sive invest­ing are? Active Invest­ing As the name sug­gests, if you are actively invest­ing in finan­cial instru­ments like stocks, bonds, mutual funds is called as active invest­ing. In active invest­ing, the

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Section 10(13A) : House Rent Allowance

Every salaried employee is eli­gi­ble for Rent tax deduc­tion under the Income Tax Act. What is House Rent Allowance? House rent allowance (HRA) is an allowance pro­vided by the employer to the employee to meet the expenses incurred of rent­ing a house. Every employer as a part of the salary com­po­nent,

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