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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

If you are planning on attending an institute of higher education in the future, there is some good news for your wallet. Now that Congress has passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, getting that education may bit a bit easier.

Student Loan Interest

The good news is that many folks who in the past were unable to take advantage of this tax break can now do so thanks to more relaxed rules concerning the deduction of student loan interest. You can write off up to $2,500 of annual college loan interest charges if you qualify. The bad news is that if your modified AGI is too high, the break is phased out. The 2009 phase-out range for unmarried taxpayers is between modified AGI of $60,000 and $75,000, the range is between modified AGI of $120,000 and $150,000 for joint filers.

Hope Scholarship Credit

For 2009, the Hope Scholarship credit amounts to 100% of the first $1,200 of a college student’s annual tuition and fees (no room and board costs) plus 50% of the next $1,200. So the maximum Hope credit is $1,800 per qualifying student. But here’s the rub: The Hope credit can be claimed for only two tax years for any one student. It’s unavailable after the student has logged two years’ worth of academic hours. Also, the Hope credit is allowed only when the student carries at least half of a full-time load for at least one academic period beginning in the year the credit is claimed.

Lifetime Learning Tax Credits

The Lifetime Learning credit is less restrictive. It’s mainly intended to help defray college costs after the first two years, when the Hope credit is no longer allowed. The Lifetime credit is available for an unlimited number of years and without any requirement to carry a certain course load. Graduate courses are cool. So are random classes not intended to lead to any sort of degree, such as professional training seminars and courses to update your software skills. The credit equals 20% of tuition and fees up to $10,000, for a maximum annual credit of $2,000.

Qualifying expenses for both the Hope and Lifetime credits include post-secondary tuition and fees for you, your spouse, and any other person claimed as a dependent on your tax return.

For 2009, both credits are phased out between adjusted gross income of $100,000 and $120,000 for joint filers; $50,000-$60,000 for unmarried taxpayers. You’re completely ineligible if you’re married and file separately from your spouse.

Question: Is A person doing Internship liable for professional tax deduction in?

Can anyone provide me detail that a person who is doing internship and getting paid has to pay professional tax or not in west bengal

Answer: Levy of Profession tax :
1) There shall be levied by the Municipal Council a tax on profession, trade calling and employment.
2) Every company which transacts business and every person, who is engaged actively or otherwise in any profession, trade, calling or employment with in the Town Panchayat on the first day of the half-year for which return is filed, shall pay half-yearly tax at the rates specified in such manner as may be prescribed:

ANARCHIC LEGACY

It will be 68 years on Monday since the catchy jingle — “ Sarkar ki mal/ pani mein dal (Into the water with State property)” — rallied Indians for what the viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, called “by far the most serious rebellion since that of 1857”. August 9, 1942, the day that shook the world, may have driven one more nail into the coffin of the British raj but it was also responsible for an …

Value added tax (VAT) has always been a cause of perplexity to the real estate buyers. While some builders are recovering VAT from the customers, there are others who are not charging their customers at all. This has led to much confusion for the property buyers as to whether VAT needs to be paid and if it does need to be paid, what should be the amount.

The VAT system replaced the sales tax system with the objective of simplifying the tax regime and to avoid the problem of double taxation. VAT is a multi-stage tax levied at each stage of the value chain with the provision that tax credit will be allowed for the tax paid at an earlier stage.

Under the VAT structure, there are two categories of rates – four percent or 12.5 percent. The idea behind this was to bring about uniformity in the levying of tax by different States and simplify the complex structure under the sales tax system. Different States have enacted the VAT Act for their State along with certain variations. While some States have moved away from the basic rate structure, some have introduced certain exemptions and concessions for the benefit of specific sectors.

In Karnataka, the real estate developers or builders have an option to charge VAT to the customers under two schemes. The first one is the composition scheme where the builder pays four percent of the construction cost as VAT. In this case, he does not claim anything from the individual owners.

Under the second scheme, the builder can collect 12.5 percent of 70 percent of the cost of construction from the individual owners. This works out to 8.75 percent of the total cost of construction. VAT is applicable only to materials and 70 percent of construction cost is representative of the materials cost in construction. VAT is calculated on the cost of the flat, parking space cost and amenities.

While some may think that it is unfair for buyers where the builder opts for the second scheme, it is not so. In the first case, although the builder is paying VAT himself, the additional burden will be passed on to the owners by way of a higher price. Similarly, where the builder is recovering VAT from the owners, the price of the flat would be lower to that extent since VAT is an additional cost to the buyer. Failure to do so may render him uncompetitive in his overall pricing.

Courtesy:- TOI dt:- 05-09-2009

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Question: what is the professional tax slab (new-2009) in karnataka?

Answer: Professional tax is levied by the State. For various states including AP, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharastra, Delhi, West Bengal read http://mytaxes.in/index.php?topic=157.0

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Kudrin gets Finance Minister of the Year 2010 Euromoney award

WASHINGTON, October 11 (Itar-Tass) – Russian Vice Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has been presented with the Finance Minister of the Year 2010 award by Euromoney magazine.