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Reads: IT Scrutiny, Loan Dis-Waiver, Retail in F&O, VC Changes
Income Tax Department to run a city specific tax scrutiny: Co-op bank deposits in Bangalore, Cars in Lucknow, Films in Kolkata (Times of India). Nothing wrong ...
General
Budget 2014: Tax Exemptions and Concessions – How Much the Government Loses, to Help Tax-payers Gain
To continue from where we left off with the Statement of Foregone Revenue, let’s now look at how companies have availed tax sops at different levels. Note: ...
Foundations
Video: How the Economic Machine Works, by Ray Dalio
An awesome Video by Ray Dalio (HT Srikanth Thunga) that speaks about what the economy is based on: Credit, short term debt cycles and long term debt cycles. ...
Economy
Jaitley Removes Retrospectivity in Debt Mutual Funds, But FMPs Will Still See Tears
NDTV reports that the higher tax on debt mutual funds will apply only from July 10 onwards, and not “retrospectively”, from a statement given by Arun ...
Premium
Portfolio Additions: Two Stocks that Rush To Upper Circuits! [Premium]
We’ve bought two more stocks for the portfolio, based on their stellar performance in Q1. This is where things get a little tricky; we bought them today, but ...
Economy
Budget 2014: Effective Corporate Taxes Lowest in 4 Years, Large Companies Take Most Advantage of Tax Exemptions
Each year, the Ministry of Finance, along with its annual Budget, releases a Statement of Revenue Foregone. This year, being the NDA’s first tenure in 10 ...
Economy
RBI Opens 25,000 cr. for Debt Hungry FPIs
RBI has finally moved to helping foreigners buy some more debt, as the debt limit for G-Secs has been rejigged. Foreigners (actually, Foreign Portfolio ...
Premium
Results: The Story So Far, for Q1 2015 (Freemium)
It’s results season and we thought we’d give you a quick peek into how results have been going so far. The results being announced are for the quarter ...
Economy
Payment Banks: What They Are, and What We Think They Should Be
RBI has draft guidelines out for Payments Banks. Payments Banks: The Concept RBI wants to create a lower-end concept called payment banks, which are restricted ...
Economy