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Govt makes 60% pension withdrawal tax free

11 Dec 2018 Evaluate

Detailing on taxability of fund under National Pension Scheme (NPS), the government has said that the entire 60% of the corpus withdrawn at the time of retirement will now be tax free. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said ‘earlier, while exiting the fund (at the time of retirement), 60 % (of the corpus) was allowed to be withdrawn and the rest went to annuity. Of this 60%, 40 % was tax free and 20% was taxable... Now, this entire 60% is tax free’. He said that both entry stage contribution and 60 % of the withdrawal amount is tax exempt. Currently, 40 % of the total accumulated corpus utilised for purchase of annuity is already tax exempted. Out of 60%, of the accumulated corpus withdrawn by the NPS subscriber at the time of retirement, 40% is tax exempt and balance 20 %is taxable.

Besides, Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs had approved amendments to the National Pension Scheme (NPS) and decided to increase the government's contribution, in the NPS tier-I, to 14% from 10%. The amendment will be applicable for all the employees registered under the scheme after 1st January 2004. This number is expected to be 18 lakh.

The scheme will be notified (come into effect) from next financial year, once amendment to Finance Bill is passed. According to government estimates, this will cost Centre close to Rs 2,840 crore in financial year 2019-20 (FY20). Providing further tax relief to employees under NPS Tier-II scheme, the cabinet cleared applicability of Section 80C of Income Tax Act to such employees.

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