To make the tax filing process easier for individuals, this year the tax department will be providing ITR-1 pre-filled with your salary, FD interest income and TDS details. Earlier, these details were required to be manually entered by individual in the form. These details will be pre-filled in ITR1 only for forms filed online. The […]
The government has unveiled a transition plan for taxpayers under the goods and services tax to switch to new simpler return forms. In order to ease the transition process, between July-September the new form would be available on trial basis for familiarisation. The GST Council in its 31st meeting had decided that a new GST […]
Mobile phone users may soon be able to change operators on a whim, thanks to embedded SIM, or eSIM cards. Telecom providers will be able to raise their game to retain users, say company executives and experts. What is an eSIM? eSIM is a digital SIM card. Its uses… Subscribers can use the eSIM to […]
NEW DELHI: The banking and financial services space for IT firms is expected to be volatile in the near term, and escalation of trade wars in the past weeks combined with Brexit overhang may continue to weaken modest optimism of April 2019, says a latest report by Kotak Institutional Equities. The banking and financial services […]
When Parbhod Anand sold his flat, he kept in mind the tax implications of the transaction. The buyer was asked to deduct 1% TDS and deposit it under Anand’s and his wife’s names as they were joint owners. Anand also reinvested the sale proceeds in another flat to save tax on the capital gains. So, […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Google is quietly keeping track of every single purchase you have made in years, thanks to purchase receipts sent to your personal Gmail account. According to a report in CNBC on Friday, the information is made available to users via a private web tool which, the company claims, keeps your data private. Google, […]
BENGALURU: WhatsApp, the popular end-to-end encrypted owned by Facebook, has asked users to update to the latest version of the app following the discovery of a spyware to be injected into a user’s phone through its phone calling feature. The spyware was developed by the Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group, according to a news […]
MUMBAI: General insurance company HDFC Ergo and technology major IBM have jointly set up a lab in India to run deep analytics on customer data and subsequently develop customised solutions to improve business efficiency and profitability. The ‘IBM Garage’ with a team of 25 experts, including data scientists, technology architects and design engineers from IBM […]
Bharti AirtelNSE -1.59 % has scrapped its low-valued postpaid plans of less than Rs 499 across circles and halved the total number of its offers for this higher-paying user segment to four, to boost its revenue per user, lower costs, and improve profitability. The Sunil Mittal-led mobile operator has now made Rs 499 the entry […]
Congratulations Apple fans, you’re about to get the first official Apple store in India. Reports indicate the company has finalised a short list of locations where the store may open up. And good news for Mumbaikars, it’s going to be somewhere in your city. The iPhone maker has reportedly picked a few upscale sites in […]
It’s only natural people worry about the sanctity of elections. They are after all trying to pick their policymakers. But since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we’ve gotten warier of interference in general. So Satya Nadella’s Microsoft has just released a software kit it thinks could help us rest easy. At the Build 2019 developer conference […]
