Rates, banking, savings and markets — what each change actually costs you, worked out.
The agency’s own release separates 42 million records corrected from 8.5 million it is “currently in the process of correcting”. The “nearly 50 million” headline and the “nearly 15 percent” both need the unfinished third to reach their figure.
Read the full story →CBDT Circular 07/2026 moved two dates, and the one that binds first is 21 October. Why the audit date followed the return date automatically, why transfer-pricing cases were never in the extension, and what the circular does not say about section 234A interest.
The barrel behind five analyst target raises for Chevron this month is costing Indian refiners money on every litre they sell. Why ICRA says ₹8 a litre and Jefferies says ₹26, and what the Delhi board would read if either were passed on.
The IRS opened accounts automatically from 1 October, and a new Treasury rule lets charities give individual shares like SpaceX. Section 530A, the rule that reconciles them, and what $1,000 actually grows to by 18.
More than 20 million people on traditional Medicare get a one-time $90 this week, paid from a $2 billion fund no administration had touched. It covers 42% of this year’s Part B increase, and the payout uses about 90% of the fund.
The increase covers Nayara’s 7,108 pumps, about 7% of India’s outlets. PPAC’s crude data shows why it came now, after a July reversal, and what it costs at different levels of use.
Treasury began mailing $500 payments on 30 September to about 950,000 full-price HealthCare.gov buyers in 30 states. The fee behind them was 2.5% of premiums, a rate CMS itself proposed to keep for 2027 before cutting it to 1.9%.
The 2020 framework ended 20x intraday bets on shares, and it has been amended four times since. SEBI’s August 2026 data shows where the leverage went instead: options, which carry 92% of individual traders’ losses, and overnight margin loans growing 53% a year.
From 1 September 2026, every new single-holder demat account and mutual fund folio must carry a nomination or a formal opt-out declaration. This is SEBI’s second attempt at solving the same problem: the first one threatened to freeze existing accounts, was extended five times, and was withdrawn in 2024. Here is exactly what the new circular requires, who it actually applies to, and the real scale of the unclaimed-assets problem behind it.
Confirmed by the government’s own 23 June 2026 factsheet: four rules stop savers routing cash around the new £12,000 cap, and a separate tax rise on savings interest lands the same day: with the same number, 22%, used for two different things.
The first revision in twelve years, notified and in force within 24 hours of Cabinet approval. ₹1,200 more out of your salary each month, ₹5,000 a month more in pension at the end of a full career, and one widely quoted cost figure that is off by a factor of ten.
A 0.4% merchant discount rate arrives on UPI payments to merchants above ₹2,000. You pay nothing: sending money to people stays free, apps cannot add a platform fee, and the government’s FAQ says shops cannot pass the charge on to you. Here is what the merchant pays, what stays free, and the numbers worked through.
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