The tax exemption on leave encashment for private salaried employees has been raised eightfold.
Apart from paying Tax Collected at Source (TCS) on foreign remittances and on purchases of overseas tour packages, you also have to pay TCS if you buy a car that costs over Rs 10 lakh.
The Reserve Bank of India started raining interest rates (repo rate) in May 2022. Since then, it has hiked the repo rate 250 basis points. Accrual funds benefitted from the rate hike cycle while, duration funds have been a mixed bag. Here, we analyse how debt funds responded to the rate hikes
While such payments were tax-free only for government employees, the private sector was permitted only up to Rs 3 lakh worth of tax-free leave encashment. The new measure was announced in the February budget, but has been notified only now.
Low-income earners need to track tax collected and deducted to receive refunds. TDS is not final tax liability, total tax depends on your tax bracket.
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After studying India’s Rs 40 lakh crore mutual funds sector, SEBI has unearthed data on performance, churn, and brokerage paid to justify some radical proposals to reimagine the total charges collected from investors. Moneycontrol takes a closer look at what the numbers revealed.
The inflows are predominantly from corporates, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation, and high networth individuals.
“Not all is that bad,” say mutual fund industry officials, who Moneycontrol spoke with, on most of the proposals. The inclusion of brokerage costs, though, is a troubling recommendation for a few officials.
Investors now go to multiple entities for meeting different financial requirements. They also have to check whether they (the distributors) are certified by the capital market and insurance regulators. The insurance regulator’s planned move will act as a one-stop solution to their needs.
A recent SEBI consultation paper quotes an internal study it conducted, which showed a wide range of underperformance by mutual fund schemes versus their benchmarks. That’s what led SEBI to propose performance-linked fee. A Moneycontrol analysis made a similar finding. Just 47 percent of the schemes (regular plans) have outperformed their benchmark indices over the past 10 years