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Your Dubai salary lands on the 28th with no tax taken. You want to keep it that way. One wrong number on your India trips can hand a…
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Who Is, and Who Is Not, an Indian Citizen: A Definitive Guide to the Constitution, the Citizenship Act, and the CAA
A friend in Dubai asked me last week whether his daughter, born in a Sharjah hospital, is Indian. He was not sure. With all the noise online about...
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The USD 1 Million Rule: How Much Money You Can Actually Move Out of India?
You sold the Bangalore flat. The buyer paid, the bank deducted its tax, and now a little over two crore rupees sits in your NRO account in India….
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You sell your flat in India for ₹1.5 crore. Your profit is ₹40 lakh. Then the buyer hands you the money, minus nearly ₹20 lakh. Not because the…
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Your bank in India is probably taking too much of your money. Not stealing it. Just deducting tax at the highest rate, because you never told them to…
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One extra week in India can change what you owe in tax. Not by a little. Your entire global income can come into India’s tax net. Most Gulf…
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The first stock I ever bought My first stock was the NTPC IPO. A stockbroker friend told me to subscribe. I nodded like I knew what subscribing meant….
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Getting Rich is in everyone’s bucket list. But how to get rich is is not a simple topic. And today, we’re diving into some fantastic books recommended by…
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Investing can feel like a jungle: wild, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous. But what if there was a guide, a map to help navigate through the dense, complex world…
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