Thursday, October 22, 2009

Vehicle Registration and MORE>>>

Are you planning to buy a second hand motor vehicle. Then if you want to trace the ownership and status of tax paid by the owner let's log in to http://keralamvd.gov.in/ , provided you know the Registration number. Also several other knowledgebase about the rules and regulations are available.

  • To Check for the Owner details of Vehicles in Kerala India you can head to the Kerala Motor Vehicles Department Website and use the Vehicle Details Page
  • For Delhi Registration Details of the Vehicles can be found at Delhi Vehicles Portal
  • Rest of the state i could not locate the page. The Karnataka Transport Department website dosent have the option to find the registration details of vehicles.


    If you know of the site for other states please drop a comment in this page


Thursday, October 15, 2009

Saturday, October 10, 2009

CLAIM PENALTY FOR YOUR MONEY LOSS FROM ATM COUNTERS

If you have any money loss issues with ATM Counters of any Bank, complain to Ombudsman in the following address

 Office of the Banking Ombudsman
 R B I
 Thiruvananthapuram - 695033
 Fax : 0471 2321625
 Ph   : 0471 2329676
 e-mail : bothiruvananthapuram@rbi.org.in

Thursday, October 8, 2009

SEVEN CONTINENTS


TREASURY INCREASED INTERST RATE (02/10/2009)


Kerala State Government Released new interest rates for Fixed deposits in Treasury as follows

180 to 1 year             :   6.75%
1 year to 2 years        :   7.50%
2 years to 3 years       :  7.75%
Greater than 3 years   :   8%

Senior citizens will get 0.5% increased interest rate for all the investments.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

COST TO COMPANY (CTC) and TAKE HOME SALARY

Hey Guys today I am goanna talk about "cost to company" and "take to home salary"

CTC/Cost to Company mean the expense incurred by the company to maintain its employee.

For example consider the table given below

Basic Salary                          : 4,80,000
DA                                       : 12,000
HRA                                     : 96,000
Conveyance Allowance         : 12,000
Overtime Allowance              : 12,000
Medical Reimbursement        : 15,000
Total Salary                          : 6,75,000
PF-Company's contribution  : 57,600
Annual CTC                         : 7,32,000
Monthly CTC                       : 61,050

Be conscious that different companies calculate CTC in different ways but Take home salary will always be much less than the CTC.

Some facts which determines the CTC are as below

* Some IT Companies include employee's training cost in CTC

* In Bank's, they provide subsidy in interest for their employees in such cases they include this in CTC

* Performance Bonus also comes under CTC

* Group life insurances and Medical Insurance Come under CTC

* The Canteen expenses and Entertainment benefits come under CTC

* Gratuity given by companies comes under CTC. Gratuity is a type of bonus given by companies when its employee resigns or Retire. An employee will be eligible for gratuity if he/she works with the employer for five years.

* Tax liabilities: Company calculates the taxes payable by Employee which is Income tax, Professional tax etc and pays by the company and include in CTC

* Contribution to Provident Fund: There two types of Contribution to PF. Contribution by employer and contribution by Employee. In which the contribution of employer comes under CTC. Normally the PF contribution is 12% of the Basic Salary. So the Company will put 12% of employee's Basic salary in his/her PF in addition to the employee's contribution which is also 12% of Basic Salary.

Now let us calculate the take to home salary from the above table

Basic Salary                           : 4,80,000
DA                                        : 48,000
Entertainment Allowance        : 12,000
HRA                                      : 52,800
Conveyance Allowance          : 2,400
Overtime Allowance               : 12,000
Medical Reimbursement         : Nil
Total Taxable Salary              : 6,07,200
Taxes                                    : 86,685
Net Annual Salary                 : 2,05,155
Net Monthly Salary               : 43,376


Now let us check how to calculate the Taxes.


* According to Income Tax Department's section 17 Basic Salary is totally taxable. In the above case Rs 40,000 is taxable.

* Also DA and Overtime allowance are taxable

*According to the policy of the company Entertainment allowance is also taxable. In the above case it is taxable.

* If the employee is staying in Rental House the he/she will get Tax reduction for HRA

* No need to give tax for conveyance allowance

* For Medical reimbursement employee will get a tax reduction for Rs 15,000 per year if proper certificates are produced.