Experts are hoping for an increase in the ₹1.5 Lakh tax deduction limit available under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act up to ₹3 Lakh
Encouraging taxpayers to invest more
A house is a security 🏠
Taxpayers expect HRA limit to match the tax exemption limit on the repayment of principal of a home loan
This would spur the demand for affordable housing and the real estate sector as a whole
Health is wealth 💊
Experts are also expecting a higher tax deduction limit under Section 80D for health insurance premium paid
This would aid deeper penetration of health insurance in the country and make people better-equipped to meet increasing healthcare expenses
Long and short term: About time⏲️
Since the current income tax policy doesn’t have a provision for long term investments such as life insurance and pension funds, experts are hoping that the gov. introduces separate exemption limits for the products in addition to Section 80C
MSME bonanza 📊
Being among the worst hit, the MSME sector has high hopes from the upcoming Budget
First, they expect a hike in the limit of collateral-free loans available under the Credit Guarantee Fund. Next, they are wishing for a tax holiday of 1-2 yrs
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It all started when a Redditor noticed that a hedge fund had taken a huge amount of short trades against GameStop and posted on the popular Reddit page #wallstreetbets, which is fond of targeting short-sellers
The Redditors on the thread joined forces and bought as much GameStop stock as possible 💰
This made the price rise exponentially and hedge funds short position started to lose billions
So, the short-sellers had to buy shares to cover their losing bids
Tesla boss @elonmusk aka “Papa Musk” tweeted Gamestonk!!", along with a link to the Reddit page which acted as a catalyst to the whole fiasco and sent the stock price to dizzying new heights 🚀
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. will now start charging customers for voice calls to recover interconnection usage charges. Users, however, will be compensated with free data of similar value
But first, What is IUC(Interconnect Usage Charge)?
It is the price paid by one mobile telecom operator to another when its customers make outgoing mobile calls to the other operator’s customers. It is currently set at 6 paise/ minute
Jio has been hit with the missed-call wave because of free calls
It receives 25-30 crore missed calls daily and when Jio customers call these users back, instead of receiving 6 paise per minute from other network operators as an IUC, Jio eventually has to pay for callbacks