{"id":1508,"date":"2024-04-23T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T11:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamawealth.com\/askguru\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:25:20","slug":"is-it-good-to-go-for-nps-if-we-exhaust-section-80c-as-compared-to-investing-in-a-mutual-fund-non-elss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/2024\/04\/23\/is-it-good-to-go-for-nps-if-we-exhaust-section-80c-as-compared-to-investing-in-a-mutual-fund-non-elss\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it good to go for NPS if we exhaust Section 80C as compared to investing in a mutual fund non-ELSS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may consider National Pension Scheme (<a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/resources\/calculators\/nps\">NPS<\/a>) only for Section 80 CCD where Rs 50,000 investment is given additional tax benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond that it doesn&#8217;t make sense to invest in NPS. NPS has liquidity issues and some of the taxation elements when you start withdrawing in your post retirement years are not very friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence it is better to keep away from NPS even for Section 80C benefits. ELSS Funds are much better for Section 80C.<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- mw-cta-block -->\n\n<div class=\"mw-cta-block\" style=\"background:#EEF3FC;border-left:5px solid #1C52A0;padding:22px 26px 20px;margin:36px 0 24px;border-radius:0 10px 10px 0;\">\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 4px;font-size:11px;font-weight:700;color:#276FC4;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;\">Maxiom Wealth \u2014 Free Tool<\/p>\n  <h3 style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-size:19px;font-weight:700;color:#113E81;line-height:1.3;\">How Big Will Your NPS Corpus Be?<\/h3>\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 18px;color:#444;font-size:15px;line-height:1.65;\">NPS gives you 80CCD(1B) benefits of \u20b950,000 over and above the standard 80C limit \u2014 and compounds powerfully over decades. See your exact NPS maturity value with our free calculator.<\/p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/resources\/calculators\/nps\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#1C52A0;color:#fff!important;padding:11px 22px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;margin:0 10px 8px 0;\">NPS Calculator \u2192<\/a>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/meeting\" style=\"display:inline-block;border:2px solid #1C52A0;color:#1C52A0!important;padding:9px 22px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;margin-bottom:8px;\">Talk to a Financial Advisor<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may consider National Pension Scheme (NPS) only for Section 80 CCD where Rs 50,000 investment is given additional tax benefit. Beyond that it doesn&#8217;t make sense to invest in NPS. NPS has liquidity issues and some of the taxation elements when you start withdrawing in your post retirement years are not very friendly. Hence&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/2024\/04\/23\/is-it-good-to-go-for-nps-if-we-exhaust-section-80c-as-compared-to-investing-in-a-mutual-fund-non-elss\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is it good to go for NPS if we exhaust Section 80C as compared to investing in a mutual fund non-ELSS?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investments","category-tax-saving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}