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In this articleCapital gains are profits from your investments. When you sell your mutual fund holdings, the returns from the investment are either a capital gain or a capital loss. The capital gains from your mutual fund investments are taxable. The taxation depends on the type of scheme – equity or debt. And also, on your investment holding period. It is necessary for us to know our total capital gains to assess the tax liability. Thus, while filing income tax returns, the mutual fund capital gains statement comes in handy. This article is a guide on downloading a mutual fund capital gains statement.
Following are the different ways through which you can download a mutual fund capital gains statement:
If you are investing in mutual funds through Scripbox or any other online platform, you can easily get your capital gains statement. Following are the steps to generate a capital gains statement through Scripbox:
The Scripbox’s Capital Gains Statement will have the following details:
Similarly, you will be able to generate a capital gains statement from the online platform that you are investing in.
Registrar and Transfer Agents consolidate all your mutual fund investments and can generate a single statement for all your mutual fund investments. Suppose you are investing in funds through various platforms or offline modes. An RTA can consolidate all your MF investments. Furthermore, you will receive the statement on your email ID through a mail-back service. CAMS and Karvy are SEBI approved RTAs in India.
RTAs handle the back-office operations of mutual funds so that fund houses can focus on investment management and other opportunities. The exceptions are Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund and Sundaram Mutual Fund, both of which have their own RTAs.
Rather than acquiring capital gains statements from individual mutual fund firms, you can get a consolidated report from RTAs. The statement will include capital gains information from all mutual fund houses they serve.
The following steps will guide you in generating your mutual fund capital gains statement through CAMS:
The following steps will guide you in generating your mutual fund capital gains statement through Karvy:
Alternatively, you can also download your statement from the mutual fund website. You have to go to the mutual fund website, log in using your credentials and download the capitalgains statement.
Comparatively, downloading the statement through the fund website is cumbersome. Since you will have to individually visit all the mutual fund house pages to download the statements.
RTAs and online platforms save you time and provide a consolidated statement in one go.
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