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Saturday, November 21, 2009

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Sandeep Shanbhag
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Go for gold — the ETF way

Macroeconomic factors indicate much upside to the asset.
November 11, 2009

Spread your money to ensure peace of mind

A tailor-made asset allocation strategy will help you balance risk by diversifying investments based on your risk appetite.
October 7, 2009

Buy the India story — you won’t regret it

Your patience will be rewarded in a decade. Just don’t borrow money to buy in.
September 30, 2009

Direct tax code will cause house rents to increase

So far, apart from a general overview, provisions under the DTC relating to tax deduction at source and capital gains have been examined.
September 22, 2009

Direct tax code will make TDS a tedious issue

At the end of the year, one aggregates one’s total income for the year and calculates the final tax thereon.
September 9, 2009

Beware the dividend of a mutual fund

What’s being paid to you is not return on capital, but return of capital.
September 2, 2009

Tax saving won’t be the same once EET model is enforced

A draft of the new direct tax code which seeks to replace the existing Income-Tax Act has been released by the government for public debate.
August 26, 2009

The Great Indian ESOP fable

In a classic case of one man’s meat being another man’s poison, while abolition of fringe benefit tax is great news for employers, it is not so for employees.
August 5, 2009

Why electronic filing has faltered

July 31, the last date for filing our tax return is round the corner and most of us would be busy with the same. As readers would be aware, since last year, the old tax return form Saral has been scrapped and replaced.
July 22, 2009

Hand he showed, hand he didn’t

There is a popular swimming garment of which it is said that while what it reveals is important, what it conceals is vital.
July 7, 2009

Trouble with EET is the silence

EET stands for exempt-exempt-taxed and is nothing but a fancy name for a tax system where an investment in a savings plan is deductible from income.
July 1, 2009

Little room for leniency in rates

So effectively, what the government is telling us is that we are going to tax your PPF, NSC, ELSS etc.
June 24, 2009

Tax-filing this time’s a tad more taxing

The government seems hell bent on making the process more complicated.
June 16, 2009
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