Tax Loss Harvesting: Here's A Smart Strategy to Reduce The Tax Bill

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Tax Loss Harvesting

By using this strategy, an investor can sell loss-making investments to offset taxable gains from other investments. This helps reduce the overall tax liability.

Tax benefits

How Is The Scheme Helpful?

This scheme is helpful for those investors who have lower than experienced returns from their stocks and mutual fund investments. By selling the underperforming assets, one can set off the losses.

Sections 70–71

Tax-loss-harvesting legislation is present in Sections 70–71 of the Income-tax Act of 1961.

Scheme

Tax Saving Opportunities

With tax loss harvesting, investors can convert market dips into tax-saving opportunities, therefore, ensuring that their money works smarter, not harder.

Tax saving opportunities

Benefits

The benefits include a reduction in tax liability, portfolio balancing and in carrying forward the capital losses.

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