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Unplanned, hurried purchases can add to your future monetary burden

 

As we enter the last three months of the current financial year (FY15), a large number of salaried individuals will rush to meet their tax-saving investment obligations to reduce their annual tax burden. Ideally, one should do tax planning at the start of the year. But a large number of people fail to do so. In their rush to meet the deadline for investing in tax-saving instruments and reduce the tax burden, people often invest in financial products that become monetary burdens for years to come but, on the surface, remain unnoticed to most.

To avoid such a pitfall, financial planners and advisers say that one should plan early and invest throughout the year to save on taxes. Rather than rushing into buying the first available instrument, it is critical that investors do their tax-planning exercise in a structured manner. Make your tax-saving strategy an integral part of your overall financial life to help it work for you at its fullest.

Don't invest randomly They also insist on having a strong purpose behind every investment decision in tax saving instruments and these should never be made randomly. "The purpose of tax planning is to achieve future goals by planning your finances in a tax-efficient way. Tax efficient financial planning is basically arranging your financial affairs in such a way that you can take full advantage of all the exemptions, deductions, etc, allowed by the government. While investing with an aim to reduce tax liability, one should invest keep ing in mind factors like age, risk appetite and tax slab.

For example, younger clients saving for goals that are more than 10 years away -like education for their children, retirement, etc - can use a larger component of equity in their tax planning portfolios. This is because, equities tend to outperform other asset classes over longer time frames and are also inflation-adjusting. Therefore, ELSS mutual funds could be the preferred instrument for tax saving due to their 100% equity exposure

If you are extremely uncomfortable with even temporary capital losses in your portfolio, avoid products that have 100% equity exposure. Investors with a balanced risk profile could explore options that have a combination of both stocks and bonds. For instance, pension plans from MFs or insurance companies. Investors with an aggressive risk profile could opt for a full ELSS portfolio for tax planning as well.

Look at existing portfolio One should also consider existing asset allocation while planning for tax-saving investments. For an individual having a large contribution towards employee provident fund, which is fixed income oriented, it may not be advisable to put more money into a PPF account, whereas a self employed individual could use PPF as a contribution tool towards retirement to balance business risks.

Also, one should look for the most suitable alternative, rather than buying what everyone else buys. Be sure to understand all the alternatives available to save taxes. For example, a couple of mutual funds offer pension plans that have a mix of bonds and stocks and are, hence, less volatile. They also offer the advantage of allowing onetime contributions unlike many of the pension plans from insurance companies that require payments regularly.

Careful planning and discipline in investments with proper asset allocation can help build long term wealth on tax-saving investments. For instance, a monthly investment of Rs 12,500 (aggregating to the Rs 1.5 lakh annual investment limit under section 80C) over 30 years and generating an annual return of 12%, can help create a Rs 4-crore corpus.

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Best Tax Saver Mutual Funds or ELSS Mutual Funds for 2015

You can invest Rs 1,50,000 and Save Tax under Section 80C by investing in Mutual Funds

1. ICICI Prudential Tax Plan

2. Reliance Tax Saver (ELSS) Fund

3. HDFC TaxSaver

4. DSP BlackRock Tax Saver Fund

5. Religare Tax Plan

6. Franklin India TaxShield

7. Canara Robeco Equity Tax Saver

8. IDFC Tax Advantage (ELSS) Fund

9. Axis Tax Saver Fund

10. BNP Paribas Long Term Equity Fund

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