India is still seeing a lot of problems in day to day cash transactions due to limited availability of cash. Government is now looking aggressively towards digital or cashless payments to alleviate this problem. To promote digital payments, Indian Government has launched multiple schemes and rewards on Dec 15th.
Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana is to promote digital payments among shopkeepers, merchants...
One of the most common problem with digital e-wallet solutions like Paytm is that you don't know what to do when Internet connection is not working. Internet connectivity in India varies a lot based on your location -- while it is pretty good in metros and big cities, it is either non existing or very slow in villages.
Due to demonitisation, lot of shopkeepers, merchants and businesses have ...
After demonitisation on Nov 8, Indian economy is still reeling under the pressure of limited cash and only way out is to move towards digital cashless payments. This has become even more essential for shopkeepers and retailers who are loosing daily business as customers don't have enough cash or they don't have enough change. Due to its already established setup, paytm has emerged as the best ...
State Bank of India has launched its UPI App (called SBI pay) on Nov 25, 2016. Currently 'SBI Pay' app is only available for android phone (ios version is blocked waiting specification from NPCI).
For people who are new to UPI, UPI stands for Unified Payment Interface and it is a new initiative from Government of India to make phone based money transactions easy and simple. Using UPI one can ...
Section 80CCC in income tax relates to tax saving due to contributions to pension funds of LIC or other insurer. Basically, if you have invested in schemes or funds that promises a pension (or annuity), than you can deduct your yearly contributions from your total income while calculating income tax
Please note that max possible deduction under this scheme is Rs 1.5 Lakhs for FY 2016 - 2017 (...
Humlog has been publishing articles about personal finance and related themes for some time now. Many of our readers have been asking to create a broader guide to personal finance in India. But over the time we have realized that financial schemes,regulations, and investments need to be seen in the broader context of 'living a meaningful and fulfilled life'.
Many of us invest in mutual funds or similar financial schemes in installments (e.g. using SIPs) and want to evaluate the performance of our investments. For example, we want to know our overall rate of return so as to compare it to with other possibilities. The standard mechanism in such cases is to calculate either IRR or XIRR.
IRR means 'Internal rate of return' and XIRR means 'Internal rate ...
While filling income tax return on IncomeTaxIndiaEfiling, one needs to fill 'Income Tax Ward/Circle'. It is also called 'your income tax jurisdiction'. Sometimes it is also required to meet or write a letter/email to income tax jurisdictional Assessing Officer (A.O.) - e.g., if you have received a notice on your past year income ...
I had both the eTrading and demat account with Sharekhan and had closed both of them recently, so sharing the process here.
Make sure that you have paid the annual maintenance charges / Demat account charges for the current year. Whether you have done any transactions or not, you have to pay the demat account charges.
After ensuring the above, make your Sharekhan account balance zero.
Go ...
While withdrawing from other bank ATM, if you try to withdraw more money than available in your account, you will get a 'Insufficient balance: transaction declined' message on ATM. In such case, you will see a deduction in your bank account titled 'INSUF BAL ATM DECLINE CHARGE'. That is, they will charge you a fee ranging from Rs 10 to Rs 30 for this.
The exact charge is different depending on ...