Specified account

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Double Taxation Avoidance AgreementA treaty between two or more countries that prevents the same income being fully taxed twice, either by allocating the taxing right or by the residence country giving credit for tax paid at source.
• Equity-oriented fundA fund that puts at least 65% of its proceeds into listed domestic equity shares — the tax definition that unlocks the 12.5% long-term rate and the Rs 1,25,000 annual exemption.
• Exchange Traded FundA mutual fund scheme whose units are listed and traded on a stock exchange like a share, so you transact at live prices through the day instead of at one end-of-day NAV.
• Fund of fundsAn AIF that invests in the units of other AIFs rather than directly in investee companies — buying diversification across managers and strategies, and paying two layers of fees for it.
• Government SecurityA tradeable debt instrument issued by the Central Government or a State Government — treated as free of default risk, and the benchmark against which other rupee interest rates are priced.
• IDCWThe renamed dividend option of a mutual fund scheme — a payout that is part income and part return of your own capital, which is why the NAV falls by exactly the amount distributed.