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Liable for professional tax??????

Sushmita (CA-Final(Intern)) (262 Points)

27 August 2011

Hello all,

Please tell me when does a co. or a firm become liable to pay or make provision for payment of Proffesional Tax.

As i am doing maintaining accounts of one of our client, so this question strikes me as in audit we generally see profeesional tax.

Please reply as soon as possible.

Thanks a lot in advance.

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DAYANANDA K N (ACCOUNTS EXCECUTIVE) (575 Points)
Replied 27 August 2011

It depend upon state Act. For karnataka applicablity is given below

3. Levy and charge of tax.- (1) There shall be levied and collected a tax on professions, trades, callings and employment for the benefit of the State.

(2) Every person who exercises any profession or calling or is engaged in any trade or holds any appointment, public or private, or is employed in any manner in the State, specified in the second column of the Schedule, shall be liable to pay to the State Government the tax at the rate mentioned in the corresponding entry in the third column of the said Schedule :

Provided that no tax shall be payable by persons who have attained sixty-five years of age.

Provided further that the levy and collection of tax from any person under this section shall be subject to the restriction specified in clause (2) of Article 276 of the Constitution.

Provided further that, no tax shall be payable by a person in respect of any year if the period during which he exercises such profession or calling or is engaged in the trade or holds the appointment or is employed does not exceed one hundred and twenty days in that year.

4. Employer's liability to deduct and pay tax on behalf of employees.- The tax payable under this Act by any person earning a salary or wage, shall be deducted by his employer from the salary or wage payable to such person before such salary or wage is paid to him, and such employer shall, irrespective of whether such deduction has been made or not when the salary or wage is paid to such persons, be liable to pay tax on behalf of all such persons.

Provided that, if the employer is an officer of Government, the State Government may, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, prescribe by rules the manner in which such employer shall discharge the said liability.