02 May 2016
All allowances paid cash are taxable as 'salary' except they are exempted u/s 10. The exemption for mobile allowance is not provided for in section 10.
Alternatively, if it is a reimbursement, currently in vogue of opening a reimbursement account for each employee with employee's banker under the same customer id and crediting reimbursement claims of the employee under that account by the employer periodically. The employers are not considering such transactions as part of salary of the employee and does not form part of salary. Hence, no TDS required to be deducted on it.
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