This is a guest post by Jayant Bhat. He has over 7 years experience in life insurance and reinsurance field as a senior financial underwriter and risk analyst. Jayant has been writing guest articles on this blog and you can read his previous article called “Are you investing in the right way?“. You can know […]
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Republic Day… So What?
Any working class Indian would cry foul if national festivals like ‘Republic day’ falls on a weekend. Because, we need such holidays to skip work on a weekday and pamper ourselves with sleep till noon or go out with loved ones for a movie or even a day trip etc., If we all dig our […]
Tax Planning Simplified – Part 2
We have learned about tax planning for Section 80C from previous post, where we can avail a maximum exemption of Rs 1,00,000 from the taxable income. Now let us explore the avenues beyond section 80C to avail the maximum tax benefit. For salaried individuals whose gross total income exceeds Rs 2,60,000 per annum, deductions under […]
Tax Planning Simplified – Part 1
Most of us think about investment and tax planning only when an employer sends out a mail suggesting to submit proof of investments. This usually happens around this time of the year so that the tax can be spread equally over the remaining three months of the financial year. If you just woke up about […]
Telangana or United Andhra Pradesh?
Should the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh be broken to pave way for separate Telangana, Costal Andhra and Rayalaseema? This is a much discussed topic in media since a month or so. Currently, most of the so called ‘Elected Leaders’ throughout the state are busy submitting their resignations to respective constitutional institution starting from grass […]