Dear Sir,
I have a query regarding the Professional Tax (W.B) deduction for a resigned employee. The issue is that one of our employees resigned from our organization in June 2024, and we have to clear her full and final settlement with her due bonus amount.
My query is: Will the bonus amount be added to her gross salary for the Professional Tax deduction, and will the slab of Professional Tax amount be increased for that?
Kindly help.
Regards,
Tarak Shaw
From India, Kolkata
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7I have a query regarding the Professional Tax (W.B) deduction for a resigned employee. The issue is that one of our employees resigned from our organization in June 2024, and we have to clear her full and final settlement with her due bonus amount.
My query is: Will the bonus amount be added to her gross salary for the Professional Tax deduction, and will the slab of Professional Tax amount be increased for that?
Kindly help.
Regards,
Tarak Shaw
From India, Kolkata
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Profession tax is a tax on a profession; thus, income from all sources, including bonuses, will qualify for it. After all, a bonus is a receipt in the hands of an employee, and the employee should pay tax on that amount as well. Therefore, when preparing a full and final statement, if you include the bonus as a component of amounts payable, you should consider it part of revenue for the purpose of computing professional tax and income tax, if applicable.
I believe the same question was raised in the forum last week, and a number of comments also appeared regarding it. If this post is from the same thread starter, please do not repost the same question but instead use the existing thread to seek further clarifications, if needed.
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I believe the same question was raised in the forum last week, and a number of comments also appeared regarding it. If this post is from the same thread starter, please do not repost the same question but instead use the existing thread to seek further clarifications, if needed.
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Dear Madhu Sir,
Please note that we pay this bonus as a festival bonus once a year, not on a monthly basis, and we distribute this bonus during the West Bengal Durga Puja. In this scenario, could you please advise on the process?
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From India, Kolkata
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Please note that we pay this bonus as a festival bonus once a year, not on a monthly basis, and we distribute this bonus during the West Bengal Durga Puja. In this scenario, could you please advise on the process?
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From India, Kolkata
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Whether the bonus is paid on a monthly basis, yearly basis, festival bonus, or statutory bonus as per the Payment of Bonus Act, professional tax will be applicable as explained by Mr. Madhu TK.
S K Bandyopadhyay (WB, Howrah) CEO USD HR Solutions +91 98310 81531 skb@usdhrs.in
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S K Bandyopadhyay (WB, Howrah) CEO USD HR Solutions +91 98310 81531 skb@usdhrs.in
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If you pay a bonus during Durga Puja, the amount of the bonus will become part of the income for that half-year. For example, if Durga Puja falls in October, then it will be considered as income for the computation of professional tax for the second half of 2024-25.
In the case of an employee who has left the service in the first half, if you are paying the bonus at the time of Full and Final settlement, you can include the bonus amount in the first half's income and deduct the tax accordingly from the Full and Final settlement. If the bonus is not paid now but will be paid in October (during Durga Puja), then when you pay the bonus, you can deduct the professional tax from the bonus.
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In the case of an employee who has left the service in the first half, if you are paying the bonus at the time of Full and Final settlement, you can include the bonus amount in the first half's income and deduct the tax accordingly from the Full and Final settlement. If the bonus is not paid now but will be paid in October (during Durga Puja), then when you pay the bonus, you can deduct the professional tax from the bonus.
From India, Kannur
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Dear Tarak,
The Professional Tax (W.B) is not applicable to "Annual Bonus" in West Bengal. So you need to calculate PT on exact salary components.
As to your query, read the following line:
Salary and Wages
Any person earning a salary or wages is liable to pay professional tax. Salary and wages under the West Bengal State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings, and Employments Act, 1979 are described below.
Salary and wages include the following:
1. Pay, Dearness Allowance, and any other amount paid as an allowance. Remunerations are received in cash or any other kind regularly.
2. Honorarium, perquisites, and profit instead of salary.
3. Leave encashment amount.
4. Leave concessional pay and subsistence allowance.
Salary and wage do not include the following:
- Medical reimbursement
- Reimbursement of conveyance charges,
- Traveling allowance
- Salary paid to an apprentice under the Apprentices Act, stipend paid to the trainee
- Statutory Bonus
- Gratuity
- Ex-gratia payment.
Pension granted to an employee is not considered a salary. Therefore, pensioners are not liable to pay Professional Tax on their retirement.
From India, Mumbai
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The Professional Tax (W.B) is not applicable to "Annual Bonus" in West Bengal. So you need to calculate PT on exact salary components.
As to your query, read the following line:
Salary and Wages
Any person earning a salary or wages is liable to pay professional tax. Salary and wages under the West Bengal State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings, and Employments Act, 1979 are described below.
Salary and wages include the following:
1. Pay, Dearness Allowance, and any other amount paid as an allowance. Remunerations are received in cash or any other kind regularly.
2. Honorarium, perquisites, and profit instead of salary.
3. Leave encashment amount.
4. Leave concessional pay and subsistence allowance.
Salary and wage do not include the following:
- Medical reimbursement
- Reimbursement of conveyance charges,
- Traveling allowance
- Salary paid to an apprentice under the Apprentices Act, stipend paid to the trainee
- Statutory Bonus
- Gratuity
- Ex-gratia payment.
Pension granted to an employee is not considered a salary. Therefore, pensioners are not liable to pay Professional Tax on their retirement.
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Thank you for the above explanation. But what I understand about salary is the salary as per the Income Tax Act. Obviously, that will include a bonus as well. Section 2(j) of the Act (West Bengal State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings, and Employments Act, 1979) also clarifies it. Since a bonus is a receipt of income in the hands of employees, there is no scope for its exclusion, I believe.
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