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Investment Guide for a Fresher

I am sure everyone has a different kind of a dream to own something like a Ferrari, a Yacht, a Bungalow or even an Island. At the same time you have heard your parents, relatives or even friends have said we can only dream of having all those possessions.

Investment
Dreaming big is good. Never stop dreaming big just because you are de-motivated by the comments you hear. This article is basically intended for fresher’s who have a job in hand or have just started out there. Am sure you would have heard the grown up speak about doing various things they have done to save on taxes or bought some kind of policies to save money for the future. Well I used to wonder why should not we enjoy the day to day existence first and spend lavishly and make life a big party.

Recently I got my first financial advice 6 month short of me finishing up graduation and starting out to earn my own money. The main reason I am writing this article is to share the things I learnt which proved my Party Lifestyle wrong to an extent and gives a win-win to the millions of people who save for the rainy day.
Mutual Funds
As you know once you start earning you guys have to apply for a PAN (Personal Identification Number) card and start filling taxes from the same financial year. Firstly almost 50% of your earnings are taxed by the government. Initially up to 33% on your salary and everything you buy is also taxed by VAT (Value added tax). Bellow is the matrix on how you are taxed directly on the income.

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Downloading (leeching) from YouTube may become a history

Youtube doesn’t need an introduction at all. I am sure everyone of us visit youtube at least once a week. But some people like me who download and archive video’s from youtube have some bad news. Youtube has made up a strategy to monetize from the downloads after all. Its gonna allow its partners or users who upload videos to charge a fee for downloading the video to view it offline payable via Google Checkout.

In favour for the partners Youtube is on a hunt to cut down the download via the FireFox plug ins, websites and software’s which used to leech the video for you. Over the few week you may start noticing those free services being shut down or hunting for an alternate way to get the job done.

Well the good news is partners like khan-academy, household-hacker and pogo-bat are using this for generating revenue through distribution where as University partners like Stanford, Duke and UC Berkeley and using it to distribute free downloads of lectures and events.

Cross your fingers so that your favorite channel or uploader is not gonna make a hole in your pockets.