Getting Started : Blog on Income tax

Hi Everyone,

My name is Ahmed Shareef. I work as Software engineer at a MNC. I am not an expert in Income Tax or on Personal Finance. But I am very passionate about Economics and Personal Finance. In this blog I will try to easily explain what is Income Tax, How to take benifits of various Income Tax Schemes or Regulations. I will try to answer some of the questions you have as well.

These are number of blogs, websites which explain you regarding various rules of Income Tax. They often do very good job at it. But I figured that, the information I need is spread across multiple sites, and often it takes lot of time to understand all the rules and regulations. Also, I found it is very hard to understand it as well.

In this blog, I will try to explain to you things in a more non-technical, easy to understand way. These are things I learnt while stuggling to understand these rules. Here, I will try to explain you how to save on your taxes -- remember I wont be teaching anything about "avoiding" taxes.

Please note : I want you to pay your taxes, but not a penny more than you have to.

Hope I am helpful. Let me know your feedback.

Ahmed


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