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REKHA KUMARI

​Shares, Mutual Funds, Property, Gold and Crypto Under the Income-tax Act 2025 — Rates, Exemptions, Loss Set-Off and Filing for Tax Year 2026-27​ <blockquote>The section numbers changed on 1 April 2026. The tax did not get simpler.Section 54 is now Section 82. Section 112A is now Section 198. Indexation has gone for almost everything. Debt funds bought after April 2023 can never be long-term. Share buybacks flipped back to capital gains. And the Sovereign Gold Bond exemption you were counting on now only applies if you subscribed at original issue.This is the 94-page, India-specific guide that tells you exactly what your gain costs, what you can claim, and by when.Written for people who own the asset — not for people who audit it. Every rate, threshold, section number and date verified against public sources as at 22 August 2026, and updated to the Finance Act 2026.Instant PDF download. Read on any phone, tablet or computer. Yours to keep.</blockquote><h2 style="text-align: left">Feature bullets</h2><ul><li>94 A4 pages, 15 chapters, designed for reading — not a wall of text</li><li>Full old-to-new section concordance — Income-tax Act 1961 → 2025</li><li>Worked numerical examples for every major decision, with the arithmetic shown</li><li>The 20% vs 12.5% property calculation done in full, both ways</li><li>Asset-by-asset chapters: shares, equity funds, ESOPs, F&amp;O, debt funds, bonds, property, gold, silver, SGBs, crypto</li><li>Reinvestment exemptions (Sections 82–89) and the deadline that destroys them</li><li>A dedicated NRI chapter — gross-consideration TDS, Form 128, repatriation</li><li>One-page rate reckoner, Cost Inflation Index table, 25 FAQs, full glossary</li><li>Instant download, no app, no login, no subscription</li></ul>

Capital Gain Tax for Indian Investors

Baby's First File is the India-specific command center for the 18 documents, 3 statutory clocks and every rupee of the first year — built for parents running on three hours of sleep.The hospital hands you a baby… and a box of papers nobody explains. (PAIN) Somewhere in that box, three clocks are already ticking: 21 days to register the birth free. 90 days to add your baby to health insurance. And an employer group-cover window that nobody at HR proactively mentions.(AGITATE) Miss the first, and a free 5-minute task becomes affidavits — after a year, a magistrate's order. Miss the second, and from day 91 your child is uninsured: one paediatric hospitalisation, entirely out of pocket. And the domino effect is real — no birth certificate means no Aadhaar, which stalls the Sukanya account, the bank account, the passport. Five portals. Zero reminders. Two exhausted adults.(SOLUTION) Baby's First File replaces the mental load with one Excel file. Type in a single date — your baby's date of birth — and all 18 tasks arrange themselves in the right order with live countdowns, red flags in plain English, and 8 ready-to-send letters for every conversation the process forces you to have.<h1 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left: 0cm">Bullet benefits</h1>• Never miss the 90-day insurance window — a countdown + red alert is on the dashboard from day one• 18 pre-loaded tasks in dependency order — registration → certificate → insurance → Aadhaar → money• 8 fill-in-the-brackets letters — insurer, HR, registrar, bank — no drafting at 2 a.m.• Sukanya Samriddhi projector with the current 8.2% rate (editable every quarter)• Claims tracker that shows exactly how much of your hospital spend is still unrecovered• One-page auto Baby Brief you can print for grandparents• Works in Excel, LibreOffice and Google Sheets · reuse for baby #2<h1 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left: 0cm">What's included (file list)</h1>1) Babys_First_File_Command_Center.xlsx — 10-sheet workbook (Dashboard · Start Here · Baby &amp; Family · Document Roadmap · Insurance &amp; Medical · Money Setup · Benefits Tracker · Expense Tracker · Communication Log · Baby Brief)2) Letter_Templates_A-H.docx — 8 editable letters with red fill-in fields3) Quick_Start_Guide.docx + Quick_Start_Guide.pdf — 60-minute setup guide

Your baby's paperwork, on autopilot - First File

Five significant rule changes landed in twenty-seven months. The last SGB tranche was issued in February 2024 and there has been nothing since. The Budget of February 2026 narrowed the tax-free exit to original subscribers holding to full maturity, and listed bonds fell about 10% in a single session. Import duty went from 6% to 15% on 13 May 2026. SEBI switched Indian gold and silver fund valuation to domestic prices on 1 April 2026. And underneath all of it, gold fell about 27% and silver almost 53% between their January peaks and their June lows.Most of what you will find online was written before any of that.This book is the current map. Eighty-four pages. Sixteen chapters. Nine ways to own gold and silver, compared on the four things that actually decide your outcome: what each really costs, how each is taxed, which regulator stands behind it — and in one important case, that none does — and who each one suits.You will find the full SGB redemption calendar to March 2027. All 26 Indian gold ETFs and all 18 silver ETFs with sizes and expense ratios. The tax master table for Tax Year 2026-27. A method for auditing the gold you already own, including the jewellery that most Indian households never count. Worked examples with real rupee numbers. Checklists you can work through with a pen. Twenty frequently asked questions, a full glossary, and a 90-day action plan.Every rate, threshold and rule was verified against public sources on or before 24 August 2026. Where sources disagree, the book says so. Where a rule is contested, it says that too. And it tells you exactly where to check each rule yourself, so you are never dependent on it — or on anybody else.It will not forecast the gold price. It will not tell you gold always goes up. It shows you the decade rupee gold returned 2.4% a year, and it separates last year's 62% return into the metal, the falling rupee, and a customs duty change that cannot repeat.Educational material only. Not investment, tax or legal advice. Precious metals are volatile and you can lose money.<h2 style="text-align: left">Feature bullets</h2><ul><li>84 pages, 16 chapters, instant PDF download</li><li>All nine ways to own gold in India, compared side by side</li><li>Full Sovereign Gold Bond redemption calendar to March 2027</li><li>All 26 gold ETFs and 18 silver ETFs with sizes and fees</li><li>Tax master table for Tax Year 2026-27, every wrapper</li><li>The gold audit — work out what you already own</li><li>90-day action plan, 20 FAQs, full glossary</li><li>Every figure verified to 24 August 2026, every source named</li></ul>

Gold and Silver Investing in India — 2026 Edition

Last year Indians lost ₹22,495 crore to online fraud. Three-quarters of it went to one kind of scam. Almost none of the victims were careless — they were simply unrehearsed.Fraud-Proof Your Money is an 85-page, professionally designed guide written for Indian financial reality in 2026. It does four things, and does them properly.It explains what changed on 1 April 2026. RBI's new authentication framework is the biggest shift in how Indians pay since the OTP. You will understand exactly what it means for your UPI app, your cards and your wallet — and why every "complete your 2FA migration" message you receive this year is fraudulent.It walks you through every live scam, script by script. Investment and fake-trading platforms. Digital arrest. UPI collect requests disguised as refunds. The jumped deposit scam. Hostile QR codes. Fake customer care and screen-share cons. Predatory loan apps. Deepfake endorsements and cloned voices. Task-job scams. Mule account recruitment.It gives you a defensive setup you can finish in a weekend. A 60-minute Digital Fortress checklist for your phone and accounts, and a three-layer money architecture that guarantees no single compromised credential can reach everything you own.And it shows you how to get your money back. The RBI liability rules most bank staff will not volunteer. Why reporting within three working days can mean zero liability. The ₹5,000 / ₹10,000 / ₹25,000 caps. The 10-working-day and 90-day deadlines that bind your bank. And the free escalation ladder all the way to the RBI Ombudsman.Every figure was verified against official and reputable sources in August 2026.Download it now, read the Golden Hour chapter tonight, and photocopy the Emergency Card for every wallet in your house.<h2><a name="_9vx87xbgvmqn"></a>Feature Bullets</h2>-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ 85 pages, professionally typeset — not a thin PDF report-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ 15 chapters covering every scam operating in India right now-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ RBI's 1 April 2026 authentication rules decoded in plain English-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ 7 original diagrams — the scam funnel, the liability clock, the three-layer account architecture-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ 12 ready-to-use checklists you work through with the book open-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ A tear-out Emergency Card for the first 60 minutes after a fraud-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ 30-day action plan — one week each for device, money, architecture and family-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ Full glossary, FAQ and sourced references-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ Instant download. Works on phone, tablet, laptop and Kindle-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ✅ Free updates to this edition when rules change

Fraud-Proof Your Money (2026 Edition) — Instant PDF 

​A 94-page working handbook for Indian bank officers going from Scale I to II or Scale II to III. Written test, interview and group discussion.&nbsp;<blockquote>Your promotion exam is in seven weeks. Your study notes are from 2022.Every priority sector limit changed in April 2025. The nomination rules changed in November 2025. The liquidity and authentication rules changed in April 2026. The Ombudsman scheme changed in July 2026. A file that predates any of those will not merely leave gaps — it will hand you wrong answers, confidently.This is a 94-page working handbook for serving officers in Indian banks, built for the two transitions that involve the most people and have the least published material: Scale I to Scale II and Scale II to Scale III.It does three things, in this order. First, it explains how promotion is actually scored — the composite, the two channels with their two different cut-offs, and the eligibility gates that disqualify prepared officers every year. Second, it gives you the subject knowledge the paper tests, written to the level a promotion paper asks rather than the level of a textbook. Third, it prepares you for the interview and the group discussion, the round almost nothing is published about and where thirty minutes of preparation moves more marks than a weekend of reading.It is built for the time you actually have. Sixty to ninety minutes on a weekday, two or three hours at a weekend. Every chapter ends with a Key Takeaways panel you can revise in ninety seconds on a phone, and Chapter 3 gives you three honest plans — twelve weeks, six weeks, three weeks — so you pick one on day one.It is not a question dump. There is not one recalled examination question in it. Every practice element is original.Delivered as a single A4 PDF the moment you pay. No app, no login, no expiry.Independent publication. Not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by any institute, regulator or bank. Educational use only; verify every figure against the current official source.</blockquote><h2 style="text-align: left">B4. Feature bullets</h2><ul><li>✔ 94 pages, 15 chapters, three parts — a complete promotion handbook</li><li>✔ Built specifically for Scale I→II and Scale II→III officers</li><li>✔ Every rate, rule and date verified to 25 August 2026, each printed with its effective date</li><li>✔ Two full chapters on the interview and group discussion — sold separately elsewhere</li><li>✔ Bank-by-bank exam patterns compiled in one table</li><li>✔ Worked examples: drawing power, provisioning, composite score arithmetic</li><li>✔ A 30-day action plan, a 35-term glossary and reusable checklists</li><li>✔ An honest published list of everything the book could not fully verify</li><li>✔ No recalled or memory-based question papers — everything original</li><li>✔ Instant PDF download; reads on a phone, prints cleanly on A4</li></ul>