Tds on petrol & driver salary reimbursement

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04 March 2013 Dear All,

Want to know about if we as company are giving petrol reimbursement to our employees and driver salary for their car, it will attract any TDS under perquisite or not. Car is owned by employees and he is claiming as expenses

Regards

Deepak

04 March 2013 yes will be considered as perquisite if car is used for personal use only..

04 March 2013 Car is using for office use only then pls advice.


04 March 2013 then no tax is leviable and company can claim expenditure in its books of accounts...

04 March 2013 but company need to maintain log book to show for which purpose car was used

04 March 2013 we want to use this component in salary structure to save tax on employees hand, so please guide me if we goes to show it as reimbursement and collect bills and voucher from employees every month then what will be treatment for the same

04 March 2013 you can give them reimbursment, take bill as they have incurred exp on company work then no taxability

04 March 2013 Thanks Sir


04 March 2013 This is not to debate just sharing.

Your intention to use this component in salary structure to save tax in employee’s hand, on other hand you are saying that reimbursement is only for official job.

How can you include this in salary structure and have employees accepted this scheme, they are not deriving any benefit and just getting reimbursement of official expenses incurred.

Please note tax treatment is different if car is used for Both official and private purpose

05 March 2013 Thanks Sir, my actual plan is to covered it under CTC as reimbursement to higher slab employees.

If they produce bills every month for Petrol and voucher for payment of driver salary and we make payment against these bills/voucher.

then it will be covered under perquisite or not

05 March 2013 In your case Car is owned by employees and is used both for official and private purpose.


Yes it is taxable as perquisites and the perquisite value would be as under

1)If employee has small car: Amount reimbursed minus Rs.1800 per month minus Rs. 900 for Driver. Suppose employee has been reimbursed 5000 per month including driver salary, taxable value would be 5000-1800-900=2300 per month.

2)If employee owns big Car (cubic capacity >1600cc): Amount reimbursed minus Rs.2400 minus 900 for driver. i.e. 5000-2400-900=1700. Per month.

Tax treatment is different and more beneficial for employee if car is owned by the Employer.





05 March 2013 Thanks Sir, clear


05 March 2013 one more question please if we shows car taken on hire with driver and petrol for employees for office use and company paid directly to other person then it will be covered under perquisite or not

Car Hire Charges - 25000/- with Driver & Petrol
TDS Contractor - 2% on vendor

Then Pls advice it would be taxable in employees hand or not

05 March 2013 No question of taxability in employee’s hand at all, as the car is used exclusively for Office work.

Please note car should be used only for official work and not for private purpose of employees otherwise taxability would arise.




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