SWP Calculator
Model how withdrawing a fixed monthly income from your investment corpus affects its longevity and growth.
Remaining Corpus Value Over Time
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP)?
An SWP allows you to withdraw a pre-determined amount of money regularly from your mutual fund investments. It is widely used by retirees to construct a monthly income stream while keeping the remaining principal invested to compound.
How is SWP withdrawal taxed in India?
Unlike bank interest or FD payouts, only the capital gains portion of the SWP unit redemption is taxed. This makes SWPs highly tax-efficient. Equity-oriented funds attract STCG or LTCG taxes depending on the holding period.
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How to Create a Monthly Salary From Your Mutual Fund in Retirement
For most Indians, retirement planning has a clear accumulation phase (save, invest, grow) but a vague distribution phase (how exactly do I live off this money?). A Systematic Withdrawal Plan answers the distribution question with elegant simplicity.
An SWP allows you to withdraw a fixed monthly amount from your mutual fund corpus while the remaining units continue to grow. If your ₹2 crore corpus earns 10% annually and you withdraw ₹1.2 lakh/month (₹14.4 lakh/year), your corpus can sustain itself for over 30 years — because the remaining corpus keeps compounding.
The math breaks down when withdrawal rate exceeds net growth. If you withdraw 10% of your corpus annually and the fund earns 8%, your corpus depletes. This is why a 4% withdrawal rate (popularised by the FIRE movement's "4% Rule") has historically been sustainable — it's well below long-term equity return rates.
Tax efficiency is another advantage: equity fund SWP withdrawals have LTCG tax implications only on gains, not the principal portion of each withdrawal. Compare this to Fixed Deposits where the entire interest is taxed annually at slab rate. Over a 20-year retirement, this tax efficiency compounds meaningfully.
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