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Robust Growth in Direct Tax Collections Sets Positive Tone for Fiscal Year

MAS Team 10 November 2023
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India's gross direct tax collections have exhibited a robust performance, surpassing last year's figures by 17.5%, according to data released by the...

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TCS Rates Hiked for Forex Outward Remittances on overseas investments

MAS Team 27 September 2023
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The government of India has announced an increase in the tax collection at source (TCS) rates for forex outward remittances made by resident...

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Income Tax Returns Processing Time Reduced to 10 Days

MAS Team 07 September 2023
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The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) announced a significant reduction in the average processing time for income tax returns (ITRs) following...

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Ensure Validity of Your Income Tax Return: Complete E-Verification Today

MAS Team 30 August 2023
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The income tax return (ITR) filing process is a crucial financial responsibility, and its completion entails more than just submitting the necessary...

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Rise in Taxpayer Adoption of New Regime

MAS Team 23 August 2023
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A significant shift in the tax landscape of India has been witnessed as around 5.5 crore taxpayers are estimated to have transitioned to the new...

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Revamped Tax Exemption Norms for Life Insurance Policies

MAS Team 17 August 2023
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The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has recently introduced a significant shift in the tax exemption regulations surrounding life insurance...

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PAN became inoperative for some NRIs: Impact and Solution

MAS Team 12 July 2023
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In the midst of filing their income tax returns (ITR) for the current year, many NRIs (non-resident Indians) are experiencing a dilemma. Since their...

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Avoiding Tax Credit Mismatches: A Guide to rectify TDS mismatch

MAS Team 04 July 2023
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Taxpayers are reminded to file their Income Tax Returns (ITR) for the financial year 2022-23 or assessment year 2023-24 within the remaining month to...

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Changes to TCS on Overseas Remittances deferred by 3 Months

MAS Team 29 June 2023
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The government declared on June 28 that overseas spending made with international credit cards would not be subject to the Liberalised Remittance...

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I-T exemption limit for leave encashment upon retirement for salaried employees hiked to Rs25 lakh

MAS Team 01 June 2023
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According to the Budget announcement, the finance ministry raised the tax exemption ceiling for leave encashment upon retirement for private sector...

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Changes in Our Business Model
 
 
25th Sept 2020
 
Greetings from Moneylife Advisory Services
 
Between financial years 2019-21, SEBI has come up with extensive changes to investor advisor regulations. On Sep 23, 2020, SEBI had issued new additional guidelines. This comes just two months after extensive changes announced in July 2020. Earlier, in December 2019 there was an ad hoc circular
 
As a result of these changes, IAs, cannot accept fees through credit cards, will have to sign a 26-clause investor agreement, have to maintain physical record written & signed by client, telephone recording, emails, SMS messages and any other legally verifiable record for five years. IAs were already asked to record the suitability and rationale for every piece of advice given, sign them and store them for five years.
 
While these extensive and frequent changes, designed to strengthen the conduct of IAs are well-meaning, these have sharply increased compliance efforts and cost. We, being online advisors, find many of changes harder to implement, compared to advisors working in the physical space. We will have to have an army of advisors, administrative and tech staff to be compliant. If we do this, we will have to divert money to these areas and the cost of our service will double. We want to remain the least-cost service in the market to benefit more and more people. In the circumstances, we are forced to change our business model from “advisory” to “research”. This will mean the following:
 
What remains the same:
  • Recommendations on insurance, investment and Lion stocks, will continue as a part of the MAS premium subscription. Our strength has always been research and this will remain available to you through our recommendations.
  • The magazine and all textual content will remain as part of the service
  • We will have to suspend the restructuring tool.
 
What changes:
  • The interactions in Ask / Handholding will offer investment advice but not specific to your situation. It will offer information on investment products and also clarify your doubts about various financial products. It will be a forum for information, not for advice. This will be implemented with immediate effect and our guidelines in Ask, reflect this now.
 
Over the next few weeks our site and our communication to you will reflect these and other additional changes.
 
We feel this will not affect you much in terms of what really matters in investing: knowing what to buy and when to buy. This is our edge and it will still be available to you.
 
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Debashis Basu
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