You can save up to Rs 24,000 in taxes if you avail of food coupons, a non-taxable salary component. All you need is knowing your salary structure better and accordingly plan your taxes

Replying to a Zero Hour mention, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said a lot of suggestions and complaints on the regulation of OTTs have been received

Income-tax slabs unchanged, but small taxpayers will enjoy procedural relief in filing ITR and resolution of disputes; High-income earners may feel the pinch though

The time-limit for re-opening of assessment is being reduced to 3 years. Originally this was six years. Re-opening of assessment up to ten years will be allowed only if there is evidence of undisclosed income of  Rs 50 lakh (or more) for a year

There is a renewed investment focus across infrastructure sectors including railways, healthcare, water and waste, urban infrastructure, roads and highways, city gas, dedicated freight corridors and infrastructure for hydrogen energy production and fishing, ship recycling hubs

Union budget 2021: With this, EPF contribution no longer enjoys the Exempt-Exempt-Exempt (EEE) status, albeit for high income employees

Union Budget 2021: Last year, the government had announced a slew of other measures for salaried class when the coronavirus outbreak began in the country. For instance, the Centre decided to pay 24 per cent to EPF account of employees till August 2020 for establishments with up to 100 employees

Around 38.50 million new subscribers joined the EPF scheme during September 2017 to November 2020, with around 45 million subscribing to the ESI scheme and over 2 million contributing towards national pension scheme, shows NSO data

As many as 8,186 corporates have come on board with 10.50 lakh subscribers till October so far this year. It was 8.80 lakh last year in October from 6,795 corporates

After a shaky first quarter, the negative impact of the pandemic is now dissipating as EPFO subscriber base increased by around 20 lakh during the first five months of the current fiscal

More than the corpus, much depends on expenses, goals and commitments

Over 33,000 employees at TCS, availed themselves of COVID-19 advances totalling Rs 1.5 crore during the said period, data shared by the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) showed

India's new unemployment allowance plan for lockdown-induced job loss would benefit a small fraction of organised workers; the new social security code in the works aims to expand social security to 100 million organised workers but contains no concrete plan for 437 million unorganised workers

It should be noted, first, that a taxpayer needs to mandatorily link Aadhaar with PAN for the AY 2019-20 on or before the filing of income tax returns

For years, job crisis has remained unacknowledged and un-remedied; the COVID-19 pandemic worsened it, but the government has no information on job loss or policy response to it, except for a few relief measures

NPS has three basic investment options in the form of equity fund, corporate bond fund and government security fund where you can divide your investment based on your preference

In terms of wage slab, more than 74 per cent of total claimants during the lockdown period belonged to bracket of less than Rs 15,000 wage, EPFO data showed

Earlier, there was no provision for restoration of commuted pension and the pensioners continued to receive reduced pension on account of commutation lifelong

While the EPF reduction will put some extra cash in you hands in these times of crisis, there will be an impact on your retirement savings; here's what you can do

Here are some of the options you can explore while putting your personal finance in order in the times of coronavirus