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Wealth tax implications on real estate

Posted by Deepak Nagori 02 December 2013 48311 Views

With increasing disposable incomes in the country, it is common for people to acquire more than one house or invest in plots of land for long term investment purposes. Investment in a flat in a residential building/complex or in an independent house

Financial Planning

Posted by Neha Mason 30 November 2013 25234 Views

Financial planning is the process of meeting your life goals through the proper management of your finances. Life goals can include buying a home, saving for your childs education or planning for retir

A Brief Analysis on Safe Harbour Rules

Posted by Sagar Tilak 26 November 2013 37548 Views

Background The tax litigation relating to Transfer Pricing has been the area of concern for the assessees as well as tax authorities. The determination of Arms Length Price (ALP) covers not only financial but also the economic analysis of the

Decoding - FDI

Posted by CA. Nishant Jain 18 November 2013 21376 Views

First few thoughts that appear in our mind as we hear about Foreign Direct Investment or FDI as it popularly known are FDI in multi brand retail, wallmart, loss of business for small and medium enterprises, etc. Ins

The Passion of Communication: Power of Semantics

Posted by Guest 11 November 2013 20489 Views

01. PREAMBLE 'SEMANTICS' is all about choosing the most appropriate word/words priority-wise and impact-wise when one begins to communicates. It is the first of the 'six' communication and presentation barriers that can help you to equip better to be

Forex rates movement- "Classical Interest rate differential theory" and its practical limitations

Posted by Srikanthan 11 November 2013 18294 Views

Forex rates movement-Classical Interest rate differential theory and its practical limitations Let me start with a caveat, inter se movement between currencies and the premia or discount that one currency commands over an

Menace of Corruption: Causes and its Cure

Posted by Guest 31 October 2013 20382 Views

Introduction IPL and cricket scandals has again boiled our blood and started debate that the evil of corruption and its auto narcotic effect pose great threat to the welfare of society and continue to grow in menacing proportion..[2] We may hav

Decode the monetary policy please

Posted by CA Anil Garg 31 October 2013 9040 Views

So, once again RBI has reduced something here, and increased something there. Former will makes loans costlier which will help reduce inflation, and the latter, will improve liquidity for the banks and reduce their cost of funds which will help th

Money Laundering - How is it done?

Posted by CA Chiranjiv Kumar 29 October 2013 42371 Views

Money Laundering, in simple words, is converting your black or dirty money (money obtained from illegal activities like drug dealing) into white money. In India, RBI has given certain guidelines to prevent money laundering still the am

What is IFRS?

Posted by Ketan 26 October 2013 62257 Views

IFRS stands for International Financial Reporting Standards and are a set of accounting standards developed by International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), an independent accounting standard setting body, based in London. IFRS