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Income Tax - section 17 of the Income-tax Act defines the term salary. However, not going into the technical definition, generally whatever is received by an employee from an employer in cash, kind or as a facility [perquisite] is considered as salary....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Articles compiles List of benefits available to Salaried Persons for AY 2019-20 which includes 1. House Rent Allowance, Children Education Allowance, Hostel Expenditure Allowance, Transport Allowance and other allowances 2. Perquisites...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Is rental income from sub-letting chargeable to tax under the head Income from house property? Ans: Rental income in the hands of owner is charged to tax under the head Income from house property. Rental income of a person other than the owner cannot be charged to tax under the head Income from house property....
Read MoreIncome Tax - What is House Rent Allowance: – HRA is an allowance (Salary Component paid to employees by an employer towards payment of rent for residence of the employee. Taxability of House Rent Allowance: – As House rent Allowance (HRA) granted by Employer to Employee is part of Salary. It will be taxable under the head “Income [&helli...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Generally employee submits Rent receipt and rent deed to his employer to claim exemption of tax on account of HRA however recently CBDT vide circular :08/2013 dated 10 Oct 2013 has made mandatory that If annual rent paid by the employee to his/her land lord exceeds Rs 1,00,000 per annum...
Read MoreIncome Tax - A government employee is not entitled to get House Rent Allowance(HRA) if he or she is residing with the spouse who has been alloted a government accommodation, the Delhi High Court said on Tuesday. The Court’s decision came on a petition filed by a government employee challenging the Centre’s order directing her to refund...
Read MoreSudip Rungta Vs DCIT (ITAT Kolkata) - Clause (h) of Rule 2A specifically provides that ‘salary’ includes dearness allowance, if the terms of employment so provede, but excludes all other allowances and perquisites. Accordingly, the performance bonus received by the appellant did not form part of ‘salary’ for the purposes of comp...
Read MoreMrs. Meena Vaswani Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) - Assessee had claimed deduction u/s 10(13A) of 1961 Act which is a wrong claim as no rent was paid by the assessee and the said alleged rent of Rs. 31,500/- per month being paid to mother was shown only to take exemption of HRA u/s 10(13A) of 1961 Act. ...
Read MoreCommissioner of Income Tax, New Delhi Vs UK. Bose (Delhi High Court) - In the returns the assessee had claimed deduction under Section 10(13A) on the basis of the rent paid by him which has been debited from his salary directly. This Section exempts any special allowances specifically granted to an assessee by his employer to meet expenditure actually incurred on payme...
Read MoreCommissioner Of Income-Tax Vs P.D. Singhania (Allahabad High Court) - From a reading of the clauses (a) and (b) of the Explanation to section 10(13A), which were inserted by the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1984 with retrospective effect from 1-4-1976, it is absolutely clear that in order to claim deduction under sub-section (13A)...
Read MoreACIT Vs Hughes Software Systems Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) - The fact that there is a short deduction of tax in the present case where it was linked with the performance incentive paid to the employee on the basis of achievement of fixed percentage, the estimated TDS deducted in a bona fide manner as per the settled legal position cannot be faulted with....
Read MoreCircular No. 90-Income Tax - (26/06/1972) - Circular No. 90-Income Tax With the issue of orders in the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure), O.M. No. F. 1(34) E-II(B)/68, dated 18-1-1969, "dearness pay" is considered as "pay" for purposes of pension and gratuity and compensatory allowance (including house ren...
Read MoreLetter : F. No. 12/19/64-IT(A-I - (02/01/1967) - Reference is invited to the Central Board of Direct Taxes letter F. No. 12/19/64-IT(B), dated 22-2-1966 , where in it was intimated that the house rent allowance given at flat rates may be treated as exempt from income-tax without verification of the fact whether the employee concerned had paid any ...
Read MoreLetter : F. No. 12/19/64-IT(B) - (22/02/1966) - 1. Reference is invited to the Board’s letter No. 12/19/64-IT(B), dated 8-1-1965, addressed to all State Governments. A question has been raised whether the house rent allowance at flat rates sanctioned to Central Government servants without verification of rent receipts vide the Ministry of Fin...
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