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Meaning and Tax Treatment of Allowances for Computing Salary Income
The term allowance has been derived from the word ‘to allow’. As per Oxford Dictionary the word ‘Allowance’ means “any amount or sum allowed regularly”. As such allowances are given in cash along with salary by the employer. These allowances are given to an employee to meet some specific type of loss or expenditure of the employee or to help him to meet certain type of expenses. For example, house rent allowance is given to help the employee to pay house rent or to get a house on rent. These are divided into three categories on the basis of their tax treatment. These are : Tax Treatment of Allowances for Computing Salary Income
Note. An allowance which is neither covered under category A (Fully exempted) or category C (Partly taxable) shall always be fully taxable as salary income. |