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Taxes Basics & Features

  • Retirement Planning
    With the increasing number of people looking at retiring early, from both a personal and financial perspective, realizing a comfortable retirement is an incredibly extensive process that takes sensible planning and years of persistence. Even once it is reached; managing your retirement is an ongoing responsibility that carries well into one's golden years.
  • Employee Perks
    Perks vary from company to company. Some of these benefits are taxable and as such understanding the tax implications is important. With the abolishment of the Fringe Benefit Tax, it is back to Perquisite Tax that was present before FBT.
  • Direct Taxes Code 2009 – The corporate view
    The draft Direct Taxes Code promised by the finance minister is up for discussion. This article looks at the proposed changes in the new code which would affect Businesses.
  • Direct Taxes Code and we the people
    What does the proposed Direct Taxes Code hold for the common man? A look at visible effects and implications of the proposals on our monies. The draft of the Direct Taxes Code bill 2009 and the Discussion paper have been made public recently.
  • Beat inflation with indexation benefits
    "Inflation for the week ending July 26, 2009 is 0.17%" or "Prices of vegetables reach sky high" are some of the headlines that we come across everyday in our newspapers. So it becomes important for us to understand what inflation is and how it affects our life. It is also important for us to know how to beat this deadly killer.
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