RSU, ESPP and ESOP – Understanding Meaning and Taxation

Most of the people who join their first job,  get benefits like RSU, ESOP and ESPP as part of their CTC package (infact this is how employers show a high CTC while recruiting).However most of the employees do not understand these things in the beginning. Over the next few months, they start getting some knowledge about these benefits as […]

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Do not close your Loans – If you want to improve your credit score!

Do you have a loan and want to close it as soon as possible? I know the answer is YES! . Everybody wants to get rid of debt and want to enjoy a debt free life. But, what if I give you a good enough reason to not close your loan and keep paying your […]

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Mistake in your Medical report while taking Term Plan – Real Life Experience

What happens when your hospital goofs up and your term plan premium goes up because of that mistake? When you take a term plan, the insurance company either asks you to take up medical test in some hospital or a doctor comes to your home and does the checkup. Things mostly go well and at times […]

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Simple vs Complex Financial Products – Which are more powerful ?

I was talking to one of my distant relatives and told him this – “When you want to increase sales of a financial product, make it complex, and if you want sales to boost a bit more, increase the complexity a bit more!”. Because the moment a financial product is “complex”, investors perceive them to be more […]

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CIBIL marketplace – Get Customised loan offers based your credit score

CIBIL has introduced a new facility called “Cibil Marketplace“, which will act like a portal where a person can get customized loan and credit card offers based on his cibil score. Right now, what happens is – when a person applies for some kind of loan or a credit card, the lending institution checks his […]

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Envelope budgeting system – A simple way to control your expenses

Some months back, when we were working with a Mumbai based client of ours, we noticed that one of his expenses of “Eating Out” was extremely huge. Their explanation was they were never able to control the number of times they went out. So we thought how about limiting the amount spent somehow ? Envelope […]

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Gift Tax in India – Everything you wanted to know about rules and exemptions

Do you know that, when someone deposits some money in your bank account, what is its taxation angle ? A lot of people take some loan from their friends for few months and then return it back, but never think twice about it from taxation angle? Your parents deposit some money to your bank account […]

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