Income tax benefit for telephone allowance

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Querist : Anonymous

Querist : Anonymous (Querist)

08 April 2015 Dear Sir,

I just come to know with my friends that if employees get salary with Telephone Allowance like HRA, Transport Allowance, the telephone allowance is fully tax free allowance.

Please suggest me about the same so that we can also get the benefit if our employer will make the changes in salary structure with the Telephone Allowances.

Apart from that do employee need to submit the telephone bill to claim this exemption.

I would be thankful to you!!!!

CA Mohit Bansal

CA Mohit Bansal (Expert)
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09 April 2015 Telephone allowance is not an exempted allowance and hence is fully taxable. If you are getting telephone reimbursement and not an allowance then only no tax would be payable