Income Tax : Understand the nuances of Gratuity - eligibility, exemptions, tax implications for employers & employees, and recent regulatory ch...
Corporate Law : Understand the implications of Karnataka's new Gratuity Insurance Rules 2024 on employers. Learn about registration, exemptions, t...
Corporate Law : Explore the Union Bank Vs CG Ajay Babu case (2018) on gratuity forfeiture. Detailed analysis on conditions, legal aspects, and jud...
Corporate Law : Understand Karnataka's new Compulsory Gratuity Insurance Rules 2024. Learn compliance steps, key observations, and expert recommen...
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Corporate Law : Whether Government is considering to increase the Gratuity payment from 15 days’ salary for each completed year to 30 days’ sa...
Corporate Law : The Government has issued Notification the same day wherein gratuity limit has been increased from Rs.10 lakhs to Rs.20 lakhs un...
Corporate Law : Decision:The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2018 has been passed by Lok Sabha on 15th March, 2018 and by the Rajya Sabha on...
Corporate Law : The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2018 has been passed by parliament today. The bill ensures harmony amongst employees in ...
Corporate Law : Clause 3 of the Bill seeks to amend the provision relating to calculation of continuous service for the purpose of gratuity in cas...
Income Tax : Analysis of ITAT Pune's criticism of the Assessing Officer's hasty penalty imposition at a 200% rate without proper application of...
Income Tax : Twinings Pvt. Ltd. vs. DCIT: ITAT Kolkata allows gratuity payment as salary expense u/s 37(1) of IT Act, rejecting disallowance u/...
Income Tax : TAT) Delhi in case of Chandan Lal Goswami vs. ITO sheds light on the eligibility of employees holding civil posts under a State fo...
Income Tax : State Government Undertaking may be considered as a State instrumentality within the definition of article 12 of Constitution of I...
Corporate Law : Patna High Court held that petitioner is duly entitled for at least 5% Simple interest on delayed payment of pension and gratuity....
Corporate Law : Explore the Karnataka Compulsory Gratuity Insurance Rules 2024 introduced by the Government of Karnataka. Learn about coverage, co...
Income Tax : Govt increases Gratuity exemption limit u/s Section 10(10)(iii) to ₹ 20 lakhs from existing Rs. 10 Lakh vide Notification No. ...
Corporate Law : (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Act, 2018. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central...
Corporate Law : Central Government hereby specifies for the purposes of the said clause that the total period of maternity leave in the case of a ...
Corporate Law : Central Government hereby appoints the 29th day of March, 2018 as the date on which Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Act, 2018 shal...
Regulation 72(1) provides that an officer or employee shall be eligible for payment of gratuity either as per the provisions of the Act of 1972 or as per Sub-regulation (2) whichever is higher. Thus, it is beyond doubt that an employee must receive gratuity whichever is more beneficial either under the Act of 1972 or under the Regulations framed by the bank. However, this is not the same thing as to suggest that an employee can choose computation of gratuity under one statute and seek benefits of other provisions under another statute. As we have noticed, the scheme of gratuity under the Act of 1972 and under the regulations framed by the bank are different.
Gratuity is that part of the salary of an employee when he received to employer. When leaving job. The payment of Gratuity act, 1972.means any person employed on wages in any establishment factory,mine, oilfield, plantation, port, railway company or shop or establishment in state which 10 or more persons are employed on any day of […]
This article is an attempt to create awareness amongst Indian and Multinational companies about the tax benefits available to Indian and Multinational Companies under Pay as you Go and Gratuity Trust Formation Option for Payment of Gratuity. Gratuity benefits are governed by “The Payment of Gratuity Act 1972” and paid by the Company to an […]
Krishna Gopal Tiwary & Anr. Vs Union of India (Supreme Court) What is exempt from the Income Tax Act is the amount of gratuity received under the Gratuity Act to the extent it does not exceed an amount calculated in accordance with the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 4 of the Gratuity […]
Difference Between Statutory Provisions Applicable To Companies Under Existing Payment Of Gratuity Act 1972 (Amended) & Social Security Code, 2020 To Be Effective From 01.04.2021 This article is an attempt to elaborate the difference between Statutory provisions applicable to Companies under Existing Payment of Gratuity Act 1972 (Amended) & The Social Security Code 2020 effective […]
Steel Authority of India Ltd. Vs Raghbendra Singh & Ors. (Supreme Court) Supreme Court held that gratuity money of an employee can be withheld and forfeited in case of recovery of dues such as overstaying in official accommodation. FULL TEXT OF THE SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT We have heard learned senior counsel for the petitioner and […]
The issue under consideration is whether a trainee is excluded from the definition of the term ’employee’ under the Gratuity Act? A trainee is not excluded from the definition of the term ’employee’ under the Gratuity Act. What is excluded is an ‘apprentice’.
The word ‘Gratuity’, has not been defined in the Income-Tax Act, 1961(the Act). In the absence of any definition of ‘Gratuity’ in the Act, its meaning as provided in the dictionaries has to be referred to. The word ‘Gratuity’ has been variously defined in the Advanced Law Lexicon by P.R. Aiyar. The aforesaid definition is to be found on page 2038 of Book – 2, 3rd Edition,2005,
Section 2(5) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 defines an ‘approved gratuity fund’ as ‘a gratuity fund which has been and continues to be approved by the Principal Chief Commissioner or Chief Commissioner or Principal Commissioner or Commissioner in accordance with the rules contained in Part C of the Fourth Schedule’. In order to get the […]
Gratuity is one of the retirement / separation dues paid to the employees. An employee becomes eligible for gratuity after rendering minimum service of 5 years in an organization (subject to certain exceptions) The exemption for gratuity from tax is covered under Sec 10(10) of income tax Act 1961. Any Gratuity received during service is […]
