Religare Fund has announced that Religare Infrastructure Fund which is a close ended scheme will be converted to an open ended scheme. The change will be effective from 23rd November, 2010. Investors who do not agree with the conversion may redeem or switch their units between the periods of 22nd October, 2010 to 22nd November, 20100 without paying any exit load. After the conversion to open ended scheme the fund will charge 1 per cent exit load if units are redeemed within 1 year from the date of allotment. The scheme is benchmarked against CNX 500 and is managed by Mr. Pardeep Kumar.
DDT is deducted when a non-equity fund declares dividends. Equity and balanced fund dividends are tax-free The AMC is correct to deduct the dividend distribution tax (DDT) as it is mandated by tax laws. DDT in mutual funds is deducted every time a non-equity fund declares dividends. Equity fund and balanced fund dividends are tax-free . It is possible that you have invested in a non-equity fund for the first time or have received the dividend under a non-equity fund for the first time. That is why this is the first occasion when you have come across DDT. The rate at which non-equity schemes deduct DDT has also gone up after the July 2014 budget. This is due to a change in calculation methodology. Earlier, if the fund has to declare a dividend of R 100, it used to make a provision for R 128.3, paying R 28.3 to the taxman and distributing the balance to the investor. This allowed the investor to bear less tax since the effective tax rate was 22.07 per ce...
