Budget 2020 was introduced with an objective of “Ease of Living” with three prominent themes as Aspirational India, Economic Development and Caring Society with Good Governance and Robust Financial Sector. However, it may not result into ease of calculating and determining tax liability. The Budget 2020 has made many changes including […]
The Finance Budget 2020-2021 came as a big surprise for NRIs as it changed the definition of a “Resident” in India. The Government noticed an individual managing his/her period of stay in India, so as to remain a non-resident in perpetuity and not be required to declare the global income in […]
Just a week ago, who wouldn’t want to be like Mr. V G Siddhartha? Mr. VG Siddhartha was a catalyst business tycoon and founder of the most successful coffee chain in India (Café Cofee Day), an early investor of successful IT company (Mind tree), owner of 10000+ acres of coffee plantations, […]
Union Budget (No 2) 2019 takes us a step closer to achieving short term goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2024. The biggest theme of the budget was Connectivity. In addition, it also addressed liquidity issues, relaxed investment criteria and introduced key initiatives in R&D and education to pave way for […]
On July 5, the First full-time Female Finance Minister of India, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, presented the budget in the Parliament. While it may be a mixed bag for many, the one category it affect the most, and that too positively, is Non- Residents (NRIs/ PIOs). We have analyzed all the budget […]
RBI in its bi-monthly Monetary Policy Review meeting decided to change the policy stance from calibrated tightening to neutral and to reduce the repo rate from 6.5% to 6.25%. This was mainly due to 1. Slowdown in global economy, 2. Low inflation (just 2.2% in December with next year outlook of about 3.5% for the calendar year 2019), […]
The interim budget 2019 included few indicators properly placed in the budget speech, if identified and analyzed properly, could become a great opportunity for smart investors to create tremendous wealth in long term. This blog tries to explain and analyze the same. 1.Vision 2030 and Economic Growth For the long term […]
The Income Tax Department has been sending emails to all the tax payers with subject as “e-Filing Vault Options” and additionally to NRIs with subject as “Kind Attention of Non-Resident Taxpayer”. These emails have unnecessarily created confusion among tax payers, especially NRIs. This blog explains the emails, what it means, reasons, […]
The Finance Bill 2018 proposes to tax the long term capital gain (LTCG) on equity shares and equity mutual funds subject to STT @ 10% exceeding Rs. 1,00,000 from April 1, 2018. The LTCG on equity has been exempt from tax since 2005. As per returns filed for A.Y. 17-18 (financial […]
Budget 2017 has proposed many important changes related to investments. Efficient Planning of your equity, debt as well as real estate investment could materially affect the investment returns. I have analyzed the effect of major changes proposed in the budget related to investments and is summarized as follows: A. Income Tax […]