New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- From 15 October, some transactions on the unified payments interface (UPI) will attract a merchant discount rate (MDR)-a fee a merchant pays to the payments ecosystem for proces... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- In Hong Kong, one of the first things Aarushi Sharma, 26, had to recalibrate was her idea of what money should buy. A monthly HK$15,000-25,000 (about Rs.1.8-3 lakh) gets an apa... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- US bond yields are near multi-year highs, with the 10-year paper at around 4.8% and the 30-year at 5.3%, while Japanese yields have also risen sharply. What does this mean for g... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 7 -- Getting the right credit card used to mean comparing annual fees, reward rates and perhaps lounge access. For a growing number of cardholders, it now involves something closer to... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- When you sell shares, mutual funds or other capital assets, you can claim exemption from capital gains tax by reinvesting the sale amount in a residential property. This is allow... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- At 83, S. Jagannatha Rao no longer owns a house. After his wife died, Rao found himself living alone in a three-bedroom house while his two sons were in Bengaluru. The property n... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- The new Foreign Assets of Small Taxpayers-Disclosure Scheme (FAST-DS), 2026, has opened a one-time window for taxpayers to clean up past omissions involving overseas income and a... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Employee stock options (Esops) can create life-changing wealth, but unlocking that wealth comes with a big price tag. A startup employee getting stock options worth Rs.1 crore h... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has notified the rules for the Foreign Assets of Small Taxpayers Disclosure Scheme, 2026 (FAST-DS), giving eligible taxpayers a one-time ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- A 30 July tax ruling involving a Flipkart employee could have implications for how employees cash out vested employee stock options (Esops). The Bengaluru bench of the Income Ta... Read More