Loss To Gain
If you have booked losses in your investments, there is yet a silver lining to help you save some money and make these losses save your tax money for you
Feb 25, 2009
Tax Frontier Not Frozen Yet
The Income Tax Department has not yet laid down when a transaction in shares and securities is business and when it is an investment.
Apr 2, 2007
Happy Trading
The capital gains tax provisions more than make up for the tran-saction tax.
Aug 16, 2004
Unable to stop manipulation
The finance minister has limited capital gains exemption to BSE-500 stocks. Will this move prevent rigging in illiquid stocks?
May 12, 2003
The problem of exemption
Though the Finance Bill 2003 exempts the capital gains arising from the transfer of US 64 units, the move does not look as good as it seems.
Apr 23, 2003
A seller's nightmare
Section 50C taxes a property seller on a notional sale price, and not on the amount that is actually received.
Apr 15, 2003
Will the gains last?
The Kelkar panel has proposed that the concessional treatment for long-term gains be abolished.
Dec 14, 2002
Really rich dividends?
In the year of allotment, bonus preference shares prove to be more tax-efficient than bonus debentures.
Nov 30, 2002
A capital idea
Time your losses to make the most of the restricted benefits of the new rules on set-offs.
Sep 16, 2002
How to use indexation to lower your tax liabilities
Lower your income tax liability by indexing your capital gains.
Aug 14, 2002
Book a capital loss now to offset your future gains
The time's just right to book a capital loss on the markets and use it to offset your future gains.
Jan 30, 2002
When it makes sense to pay tax on capital gains
It often makes sense to pay tax on capital gains'and not invest in tax-saving bonds.
Oct 31, 2001
One-point taxation
According to the new rules on taxation of ESOPs, you will have to pay capital gains tax only when you sell the shares.
Oct 31, 2001
Turn your loss into a gain
Set off stock market losses against other income by converting your holding into a business asset.
Aug 27, 2001
Capital moves
There's one more instrument in which you can invest to save capital gains from being taxed: in REC bonds qualify for exemption under section 54EC.
Jul 26, 2001