Your Queries – Mutual Funds: You can withdraw money from ELSS after lock-in period and reinvest it

Fund homes don’t deduct any taxes on capital positive aspects aside from investments made by NRIs the place TDS is relevant.

I’ve been investing in ELSS for the previous 5 years. Because the lock-in is for 3 years, can I withdraw my first 12 months’s funding and reinvest the quantity?
—Okay S Singh
Sure, because the ELSS funding has accomplished 5 years, you may withdraw the primary 12 months’s funding and re-invest it. Long run capital positive aspects tax can be relevant for capital positive aspects of greater than Rs 1 lakh in a monetary 12 months. If the re-investment is in an ELSS fund, a contemporary three-year lock-in can be relevant on it. If objective is to create long-term wealth with fairness investments, it’s higher to make contemporary investments into the portfolio as a substitute of withdrawing and re-investing the identical.

If I withdraw some cash from my lump sum investments, do I’ve to calculate the capital positive aspects and pay the quantity or will the fund home deduct the capital positive aspects quantity?
—Ramesh Anand
Sure, capital positive aspects tax computation and cost (if relevant) on withdrawals of mutual fund funding need to be carried out by the investor. Fund homes don’t deduct any taxes on capital positive aspects aside from investments made by NRIs the place TDS is relevant.

If I withdraw greater than Rs 1 lakh from my mutual fund items, do I’ve to pay capital positive aspects tax?
—C R Ranjan
For fairness, capital positive aspects tax needs to be paid on capital positive aspects exceeding Rs 1 lakh and never on withdrawn quantity. For debt, capital positive aspects tax is relevant if the funding has been held greater than three years, and is taxed at 20% submit indexation of prices or at 10% with out indexation. If held for lower than three years, the positive aspects are added to earnings and taxed at marginal tax price as relevant.

How can I save on expense ratio by investing in a direct plan?
—Aditya Kapoor
A direct plan is the one which an investor buys straight from the mutual fund. Since there isn’t any middleman concerned on this transaction, the AMC doesn’t need to pay any fee or trailing charges. In case you are investing by way of a financial institution that’s registered as a distributor you’re investing in a daily plan (with greater expense ratio) and never a direct plan (with decrease expense ratio). Then again, if the financial institution is a Registered Funding Advisor the funding could possibly be within the ‘direct’ plan.

The author is director, Funding Advisory, Morningstar Funding Adviser (India). Ship your queries to fepersonalfinance@expressindia.com