The Nascent Craze

Finished with my engineering and sitting idly at home, time killed at ease , courtesy music and movies. But time is more precious as anything in this world. So decided against my entertainments and searched for some new interesting venture. Surfing through my old TV i always end up banging my head , becuase it contains nothing much than a few news channels and some channels with those sops, saas-bahu, ofcoz. But some business news channels caught my attention. Markets,capital,stocks,shares,BSE,nifty,and some scrolling text with red and green in between, wondered what the hell is this???, Then read on.....even the same bugged me.Luckily i found myself glued to it after some lessons from my uncle who always got interested with this.
As a first timer everything seemed like some puzzle with some numbers. Number games, number theory..what the hell is this..watching a few numbers scrolled...are u gonna waste your time watching this..this was my first thought!!But soon i got the jargon one by one demystified , and after a few minutes i too was enjoying the ups and downs of market. The euphoria it created at its 10,000 landmark then the next and next.....as it continued to do so. But also the backslide though that did not bother me much. Because if it has reached a zenith point you can always be sure that it will hit that again.
So here i am with the new found craze this summer,dreaming to be the next Warren Buffet!!!

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Taxed!

TAX - the most dreaded three letter word. Something which eats into your hard earned money.

The first basic understanding that we get about taxes are that they are paid for the betterment of our lives administered by the government. So everyone has in some way abide by the law. While some become evaders others avoid paying taxes. But for the salaried class there is no escape. So it’s better to understand how taxes work, how to minimize it so that you can be free from the hands of the IT department.

Now, I am going to introduce you to road tax , because I guess this is the time most of you are keen to get two or four wheelers. Those people who already hit the roads with their machine might already have given some bucks away in the form of motor vehicle tax or simply road tax. The road tax is collected on "life basis" , the tax is for 10 years or a "fitness period" of 15 years. After that you have to again get your vehicle re-registered and pay another amount.

Vehicle taxes for the upper-end , luxury cars may even run into lakhs of rupees. Now to say about the dirty game. The vehicle tax is supposed to be based on the ex-factory manufacturing cost plus the excise duty , sales tax/vat. But what is really happening is you are taxed at the ex-showroom cost, which are higher --- dirty game between manufacturers and some big players. Only a part of what you pay go to the RTO , the rest is pocketed by some unknown powerful men.

This brings into mind the famous episode of the controversial taxing of Sachin's new Ferrari 360 Modena . Though the car was a gift to sachin, he still has to dole out a huge sum in the form of customs duty, road tax and other misc. taxes. The case is still on.

De-Taxed!

This blog takes you through some fine details on tax-payment now that you have started earning!

Your long awaited wish comes true.........standing on your own feet.........earning by your own.............and now u enjoy the freedom to spend as you like.

You were promisesd by your company that they will pay you a certain amount. Just when you thought you were going to get that amount , u are mistaken. you think your company has cheated you...they pay you what is less than what they promised when they offered you the job. now you hear about a lot of finance terminologies namely PPF, NSC, medical insurance, HRA, etc....and claims that eats up into your income.

Relax! this is all part of the business. Your company has to provide the details of its finance to the IT department. In the process, u as part of your company , are also being counted as a tax payee to the government. as a result u will be paying a certain amount as tax to the government and this is called the TDS or the tax deducted at source. the TDS covers the whole tax amount which you will be paying as a regular employee earning a certain sum.

If you have only a single source of income , and that's your salary, then your tax as TDS is already paid by your company. In the next financial year , you will have to file your return for the previous year. Filing your return simply defines how much and by what way you have earned your income, through different means. it is like your balance sheet. Filing your return promises you to get a PAN and from then on your tax details will be filed with this number.

If you earn an income from some other means....say by shares, on some capital, interests,etc. then you will have to mention them in your return and also will have to pay an extra amount if it is taxable. And if you have given away certain amount as donations in the form of charity , u may be eligible for a tax deduction, in which case u r entitled to get back a certain amount .

The Permanent Account Number (PAN) is an all India, UNIQUE TAXPAYER ID. PAN is a ten-digit alphanumeric number, issued in the form of a laminated card, by an Assessing Officer of the Income Tax Department. A typical PAN is AMRPP1595D.

PPF – Public Provident Fund – The Provident Fund is a retirement benefit scheme , under which a stipulated sum is deducted from the salary of the employee as her contribution towards the fund. The contributions of the employer and the employee are then invested in government securities. The interest earned on these securities is credited to the Provident Fund account.

See that you pay your taxes on time!

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