Investing 2016

Taxing EPF: 11 clarifications only add to confusion; trade unions strike on 10 March

Budget 2016: From EPF googly to pricier garments, why the salaried class is getting a heart burn

Budget 2016: Sebi, Irda to get service tax exemption for regulatory services

The "regulatory services" provided by Sebi and Irda as well as the services offered by EPFO have been exempted from service tax with effect from 1 April 2016.

Budget 2016: This is a make budget for Arun Jaitley, not a break budget, writes Yashwant Sinha

Budget 2016 is a make budget not a break budget and it has come as a pleasant surprise.

Budget 2016: Govt raises surcharge on income of super-rich to 15%

In the last Budget, Jaitley had abolished the wealth tax and replaced it with an additional surcharge of 2 percent on the super-rich with a taxable income of over Rs 1 crore.

Budget 2016: BJP calls it 'visionary', Congress says no 'immediate stimulus' to build disposable income

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presented in Parliament the Union Budget 2016-17 in which no change in personal Income Tax slabs has been done while a 4-month Compliance Window for domestic black money holders has been given.

Budget 2016: Jaitley proposes comprehensive central law to check ponzi menace

However, there is no comprehensive legal framework for all kinds of illicit money pooling schemes they are mostly governed by state-level laws.

Budget 2016: A pro-poor budget; adherence to fiscal deficit a big positive, say experts

Here is what experts ranging from macroeconomic, infrastructure to banking sector have to say on Budget 2016

Budget 2016: Jaitley plays Santa with rent payers, raises HRA deduction limit to Rs 60,000

In a relief to individual tax payers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today increased the tax deduction limit to Rs 60,000 per annum from the current Rs 24,000 on the housing rent.

Budget 2016 Live: Jaitley's has delivered his economic mantra, a year we will know how good it was

What is making his task particularly difficult is the fact the Narendra Modi government is going through a rough patch due to the heightening criticism over the rising intolerance. The JNU imbroglio and the Rohith Vemula suicide only aggravated the problem.