Explainers

Finance Explainers

Plain-English pages for terms people see in salary, tax and investment decisions.

Understand cost to company and why it differs from take-home salary.

A beginner guide to the salary TDS certificate issued by employers.

Understand the common old-regime tax-saving deduction bucket.

Connected calculators

Turn the page into numbers.

Turn annual CTC into monthly in-hand salary with automatic tax and gratuity.

Estimate new CTC and monthly take-home after a salary hike.

Estimate gratuity from monthly basic plus DA and completed service years.