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New Indian Rupee Symbol

New symbol for Indian Rupee Announced

Now Indian Rupee has a new symbol and this is how it looks. This new symbol which has been shortlisted through a contest run by Finance Ministry of India. You can read about that Rupee design contest here. The basic aim of the new symbol is to provide the Indian rupee international recognition as the [...]

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IT Returns eFiling

eFiling of Income Tax Returns

For the third consecutive year I have filed my income tax returns online. Though the process of efiling is so simple and easy, not many are using this feature. In this post I am sharing the slides to help you file your IT returns online. Remember, July 31st is the deadline for filing your returns [...]

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New Pension Scheme - PFRDA

New Pension Scheme – NPS

New Pension Scheme is government of India initiative to extend pension benefits to citizens of India, at large. Any individual whether employed with private sector, self employed or professional can now avail of pension benefits and plan his/her retirement period well by enrolling in the New Pension Scheme (NPS). One can regularly invest in this [...]

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INR - Indian Rupee

Direct Tax Code draft version 2

Finance ministry has released the second draft of proposed Direct Tax Code (DTC) today, which upon approval will be effective from financial year 2011-12. You can read my initial article on the first draft of DTC if you aren’t aware of this proposal. Let us look at some of the highlights of this draft. It [...]

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Tax Calculator for year 2010-11

The much awaited Tax Calculator for financial year 2010-11 has been released by ynithya on his site. Feel free to download the same and use for better planning of your hard earned money. I have been using his tax calculator which is in the form of Microsoft Excel (xls) for over 3 years now and [...]

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