Do you file your income tax returns every year? If not, are you aware whether you should file your yearly return of income or not? There are many misconceptions due to which people do not bother to file return of income. Some people believe that their employers deduct the tax from their salary and [...]

An income tax refund is actually a kind of tax rebate. In simple words you can say that it is actually a return on taxes you receive when the amount of tax liability is lesser than the actual tax paid in a single financial year. In this case you can claim maximum refund because [...]

Union Budget, in the language of a financial analyst, is the estimated sources and application of funds for a particular fiscal year. It is normally placed before the House of Parliament in the last week of February.
To the common citizens, budget is all about rise or fall in the prices of goods and services [...]

In an attempt to monitor all deposits made under post office schemes and bring them at par with bank interest earnings, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has notified that income from post office savings schemes will be taxed from the current financial year.
By making it mandatory for individuals to declare investments in [...]

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday revised the tax slabs for the next Tax financial year.
There will be no tax for income upto Rs 1.6 lakh. The earlier slab was 1.6 – 3 Lakh
For income between 1.6 lakh – 5 lakh, the tax liability will be 10%. The older slab was 3-5 lakh.
For income [...]

For Male Tax Payers
Upto Rs. 1,60,000 – NIL
From Rs. 1,60,001 to Rs. 3,00,000 – 10%
From Rs. 3,00,001 to Rs. 5,00,000 – 20%
Above Rs 5,00,001 – 30%
For Female Tax Payers
Upto Rs. 1,90,000 – NIL
From Rs. 1,90,001 to Rs. 3,00,000 – 10%
From Rs. 3,00,001 to Rs. 5,00,000 – 20%
Above Rs 5,00,001 – 30%
For Senior citizens Tax [...]

Highlights of Budget 2009
* Growth rate in 2008-09 dipped to 6.7 per cent from average 9 per cent growth in previous three fiscal years.
* Mukherjee intends to make pre-budget consultations with state finance ministers an annual affair
* Fiscal deficit grew from 2.7 per cent to 6.8 per cent of GDP
* We need institutional reforms [...]

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday raised tax slabs in his Union Budget 2009-2010
He proposed to increase the income tax exemption limit for senior citizens by Rs 15,000, for women and others by Rs10,000 each, while keeping the corporate tax rate unchanged.
The exemption limit will now be Rs 240,000 for senior citizens, Rs190,000 for [...]