Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The Zero Fuss Wizard

Three days left, and you haven’t filed your returns. Try the ET tax wizard, it’s so easy to use and it just takes 5 minutes to fill the form. Don’t believe us; listen to some of the testimonials that grateful netizens from all over the country have been inundating us with.
Omar Sharif, Domain Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. in Mumbai, wrote to us that the interface “very user friendly…indeed it made my life simpler”.
Geetanjali P., an Analyst with a major computer manufacturing MNC in Bangalore says it “greatly simplified the tax filing process for professionals like me”.
Nipun K, a fellow Analyst in an MNC IT firm in the Graden City the Tax Wizard was “a great and easy-to-use tool by Economic Times”.
But for the final word we’ll go to 79-year-old Sunder Thadani in Mumbai. He’s been trying his hand at e-filling for the past three years, but found it “very difficult to use”. This is when he came to www.tax.economictimes.com and discovered the ET Tax Wizard. In his own words, “I was surprised to find compiling the returns on the screen so simple, and quick. I completed my returns within 15 minutes...it was so efficient and fast that even an old man like me could complete the returns.” Mr Thadani went on to add he “was saved so much tension and time which is wasted in filing the returns”.
But its not just a Tax Return tool, ET Tax Wizard is a pert of the ET Portfolio Wizard, the wealth management software that allows investors and savers to keep a track of their investements like shares, mutual funds, fixed deposits, NSC (National Savings Certificates) KVP (Kisan Vikas Patra), PPF (Public Provident Fund), RBI and Corporate Bonds and many more financial instruments. If a user maintains his investment portfolio on the ET Portfolio Wizard, then the calculation of capital gains on shares and mutual funds is automatically taken care-off.
So like Mr Thadani and thousands of others, why not give the ET Tax Wizard a try? We guarantee that this year there’ll be little worry and zero fuss, at least on the tax front. Even if you have filed your returns logon to ET portfolio wizard and create start tracking your investments there, so that next year your return filing is further simplified.

http://www.tax.economictimes.com

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

ET Now and Times Now to present live Budget09 on Times Audience Network

Times Audience Network, the online video arm of the Times Group, will be simulcasting the live budget feed for ET Now and Times Now on July 6. It will be a never-done-before event in the Indian electronic medium’s history with TAN coming together with Microsoft, Facebook, Akamai and the television properties of the Times Group.

Users will get live coverage of both ET Now and Times Now as well as on-demand videos, live news feeds, special updates and will also be able to interact with Facebook friends--all from a single show window. And with Facebook Connect and Live Stream Box, they will be able to take part in real-time conversations with their favourite TV anchors. The event will be hosted at http://budgetlive.economictimes.com

“We’re pleased to collaborate with the Times Group on their coverage of the national budget,” said Meenal Balar, International Marketing Manager at Facebook. “As discussions in New Delhi get under way, we hope Indians will share their comments and opinions with their friends on Facebook.”

Sanjay Sinha, Director - Enterprise Evangelism, Microsoft India says, “Users will experience unique features such as on-demand videos, picture-in-picture feature to watch highlights while watching the live stream, powered by Silverlight.” The event will be powered by Akamai, the global leader in live and on-demand streaming delivery. Sanjay Singh, MD, Akamai India, says they can “guarantee that viewers will get a flawless, high quality, live streaming experience."

Sunil Rajshekhar, TIMES INTERNET LIMITED, President and COO, says, with the Live Budget show, we’ll be bringing together the strengths of industry leaders in the content and technology space.The event is a continuation of our leadership and innovation in the online video space. It also marks the entry of ETNow onto TAN and will help expand our efforts in proliferating rich media consumption.”

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

OUR USP: ET Portfolio Wizard – The wizard of Money Management

Economictimes.com, the online edition of world’s 2nd largest financial Daily, now brings to you the Wizard of Money Management. Here comes ET Portfolio Wizard– the real-life wizard that would transform the way online investment tracking works – and that too with a single sleight-of-hand.

It’s automatic and so easy to use that even tax/investment consultant swears by it. No more tedious filling-out of numerous online forms in sequence – you’d only need to copy-paste your data just once and for all to activate, manage, update and continue with your account. Here’s the lowdown:

Try our new Portfolio’s Upload Wizard feature, which handles bulk transactions in a couple of clicks. Or perhaps ET Portfolio’s special IPO section that tracks down even your ESOPs. Also try our upcoming IPOs that might attract you, or the Alerts & Watchlists section which offers a bouquet of brand new features. But more on that later.

Don’t believe how easy it is? 50,000 tax payers bet on our Tax Wizard last year for calculating and filing their returns without the help of a Tax professional – its sheer wizardry!

And all of this comes with 128-bit encryption security arrangement of course, so that you’re sure that your data is completely safe.

Upload Wizard
The ET Portfolio’s unique Upload Wizard makes transaction entering simple. The Wizard has been pre-configured to import data directly from over XX brokers (LIST – ICICI Direct, Sharekhan, Reliance Money, Religare, Motilal Oswal, IDBI, Man Financial, etc) More will be added as we move along. There are other options as well. Like uploading bulk transaction history into an Excel file. Upload Wizard will automatically read your data, validate it and upload the same into your portfolio. Get a hold on your investments, the easy way.

Tracking More Asset Classes
ET Portfolio not only tracks Stocks, MFs, Deposits and Real Estate, but is the only service that even keeps track of your ESOPs (Employee Stock Option Scheme). A special IPO section also keeps a watch on upcoming IPOs and also tracks investments from the time you file the IPO application.

Security
The only integrated portfolio tool that keeps your data secure using 128-bit encryption, the kind if security used by Banks and brokers for their online ebusinesses. The security of your financial data is very important to us.

Integrated Tax Tool
The only portfolio tool to provide an integrated tax calculation and filing engine. Last summer, 50,000 tax payers used our tool. See what they had to say about us before you try it. Now with the integrated Portfolio and Tax engine, your short-term/long-term taxes and the dividend, interest components will be automatically exported to your tax returns.

Family View
Now maintain the portfolio of the whole family at one place. Get an integrated view or individual view of each portfolio. What’s more, family members can get independent access to monitor their individual portfolios.

Alerts and Watchlists
Alerts for updates on transactions or important triggers. You can even set up multiple watchlists to keep track of stocks and MFs you are interested in.

Wealth Manager and Tax Consultant View
Select parts of the ET Portfolio and Tax Wizard can be enabled for your Wealth Manager or Financial Advisor/Tax Consultant to access, thus creating a seamless single source of information for all your financial advisory requirements.

ET Portfolio Wizard has lot more to offer, such as, double entry book-keeping, auto update of SIPs/SWPs; Alerts and automatic adjustments of dividends, bonus, stock splits, interests, redemption etc. Come take a look, you will be the richer for it.

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