ICICI Lombard General Insurance has started offering the facility of renewing health policies online. Now the customer has the option of changing the tenure of the health policy, the sum insured, to add or remove insured members. The premium can be paid through the net banking account, credit card, debit card or cash card. Once the customer completes the process of online renewal, the insurance company will mail a soft copy of the new policy certificate along with a transaction confirmation SMS; health card; 80 D tax certificate and a free health check-up coupon, the insurance company said in a statement. A hard copy of the renewed policy is dispatched within seven days to the customer's mailing.
DDT is deducted when a non-equity fund declares dividends. Equity and balanced fund dividends are tax-free The AMC is correct to deduct the dividend distribution tax (DDT) as it is mandated by tax laws. DDT in mutual funds is deducted every time a non-equity fund declares dividends. Equity fund and balanced fund dividends are tax-free . It is possible that you have invested in a non-equity fund for the first time or have received the dividend under a non-equity fund for the first time. That is why this is the first occasion when you have come across DDT. The rate at which non-equity schemes deduct DDT has also gone up after the July 2014 budget. This is due to a change in calculation methodology. Earlier, if the fund has to declare a dividend of R 100, it used to make a provision for R 128.3, paying R 28.3 to the taxman and distributing the balance to the investor. This allowed the investor to bear less tax since the effective tax rate was 22.07 per ce...
