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Featured Comment: What is a rights issue?

Sujit asks: I am not sure what a rights issue is, something like, the Indian Hotels Co is going to bring in, thats the news today. Suppose I own a 100 shares ...

Arbitrage funds are risky?

Are arbitrage mutual funds really risk free? PersonalFn attempts to debunk that theory saying: Buy-stock, sell-future is the common arbitrage used. Futures are ...

How ULIPs and Mutual Funds make you pay

When you buy at the supermarket, you cringe if the cashier adds one item with the wrong price. You say “But it says 20% discount!”, and ensure that ...

How To Handle A Sinking Market

The mayhem is here. Nifty is down 183 points to 4345 and Sensex is down 615 points to 14935. A 4% drop in a single day of trade. Every single index is in the ...

Filling out IT Return Forms: A consolidated post

This is a consolidation of all my posts about filling out IT return forms for income earned in 2006-07. Introduction to the new IT return forms IT Return Forms ...

Filling out ITR-1 (Part 2)

To continue from Part 1, Here’s an explanation of the rest of the fields in ITR-1. Interest calculation If you don’t pay tax on time the Tax ...

Filling out ITR-1 (Part 1)

I talked about common items in the Income Tax Return forms, and now here’s how to fill the rest of the form. Income and Deductions Fill in your salary as ...

Filling out Income Tax Return forms (Common stuff)

This post details instructions on how to fill in the ITR forms. The following sections are common across ALL ITR forms (Forms 1-4) relevant to individual ...

New Income Tax Return Forms

From Assessment Year 2007-08, tax filing for year 2006-07, you will need to use new IT return forms. These are downloadable from the Income Tax Department web ...

How to buy Stocks: Opening a Brokerage Account in India

Once you have understood what shares and stock markets are, you will want to know how to buy stocks, and sell them and such. You need a broker. You will never ...