IN line with IRDA's new charge structure for ULIPs, Kotak Life has launched a ULIP, which offers guaranteed maturity addition of up to 280% of your first year premium. The fixed return of the first year premium ranges from 110% for 10-year policy to 280% on a 30-year policy. The Kotak Super Advantage, which has replaced its earlier ULIP plan called Kotak Smart Advantage, claims 100% allocation of your premiums from the second year onwards. Besides, the ULIP offers assured bonus addition to enhance your fund value at maturity, the life insurer said in a statement. This benefit is calculated as 3% of the average Fund Value of the last three policy years. This ULIP offers five fund options to customers on the basis of their risk appetite.
The TDS rate doubles to 20% from 10% if you fail to mention your Personal Account Number IF you run a glance through your pay slip, you will come across something called TDS, which is tax deduction at source. In most cases, the employer deducts this amount at the time of payment of salary itself and pays the total tax amount to the government on behalf of all the employees. If you are a self- employed or practicing professional s, you have to pay this amount yourself. Tax deducted at source is one of the modes of income tax collection by the government. Under the income-tax laws, income tax at specified rates is required to be deducted while making certain payments. The rate of deduction of tax at source on interest and rent payment is 10%. For salary payments, the employers deduct income tax at source on a monthly basis after computing income tax liability on estimated annual taxable income of the employee. Tax benefits on housing loan, investments, etc are consid...
