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The original tax rate was set at 0.125% for a delivery-based equity transaction and 0.025% on an INTER-day transaction. [3] The rate was set at 0.017% on all Futures and Options transactions. STT was originally introduced in 2004 by the then Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram to stop tax avoidance of capital gains tax.
The scheme was aimed at encouraging the flow of savings of small investors in the domestic capital market, and presents investors with tax benefits provisioned as a new section, 80CCG, [3] in the Income Tax act. The 2017 Union budget of India had stated that the scheme be phased out entirely by 2018, citing the lack of adoption. [4]
Category I: These funds receive incentives from the government. These include social venture funds, infrastructure funds, venture capital funds and SME funds. [1] Category II: These funds are allowed to invest anywhere in any combination, but cannot take debts, except for day-to-day operation purposes. These include private equity funds and ...
Instead, the partner is taxed as the partnership earns income. In the case of a hedge fund, this means that the partner defers taxation on the income that the hedge fund earns, which is typically ordinary income (or possibly short-term capital gains), due to the nature of the investments most hedge funds make.
Income tax exemption limit for senior citizens raised from ₹ 250,000 (US$2,900) to ₹ 300,000 (US$3,500) Exemption on payment of income tax on interest paid on loans for self occupied houses raised to ₹ 200,000 (US$2,300) from ₹ 150,000 (US$1,700) 10-year tax holiday to be extended to companies that start power generation by March 31, 2017
Tax advantage refers to the economic bonus which applies to certain accounts or investments that are, by statute, tax-reduced, tax-deferred, or tax-free. Examples of tax-advantaged accounts and investments include retirement plans, education savings accounts, medical savings accounts, and government bonds.
Income tax in India is governed by Entry 82 of the Union List of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India, empowering the central government to tax non-agricultural income; agricultural income is defined in Section 10(1) of the Income-tax Act, 1961. [2]
The Income Tax Department of India specifies the use of the Form and various rules and regulations are associated with it. The Income Tax Act, 1961, and the Income Tax Rules, 1962, govern the process of filing Income Tax Returns in India. Form 3CE is a part of this process and is an Audit Report format and is required by Section 44DA. [24]