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Allowance
is defined as a fixed quantity of money or other substance given regularly in
addition to salary for meeting specific requirements of the employees. As a
general rule, all allowances are to be included in the total income unless
specifically exempted. Exemption in respect of following allowances is
allowable to the exent mentioned against each :-
House Rent Allowance:- Provided that
expenditure on rent is actually incurred, exemption available shall be the
least of the following :
(i) HRA received.
(ii) Rent paid less 10% of salary.
(iii) 40% of Salary (50% in case of Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi ) Salary here means Basic + Dearness
Allowance, if dearness allowance is provided by the terms of employment.
Leave Travel Allowance: The amount actually
incurred on performance of travel on leave to any
place in India
by the shortest route to that place is exempt. This is subject to a maximum of
the air economy fare or AC 1st Class fare (if journey is performed by mode
other than air) by such route, provided that the exemption shall be available
only in respect of two journeys performed in a block of 4 calendar years.
Certain allowances given by the employer to
the employee are exempt u/s 10(14).
All these exempt allowance are detailed in Rule 2BB of Income-tax Rules and are briefly given below:
For the purpose of Section 10(14)(i),
following allowances are exempt, subject to actual expenses incurred:
(i) Allowance granted to meet cost of travel
on tour or on transfer.
(ii) Allowance granted on tour or journey in
connection with transfer to meet the daily charges incurred by the employee.
(iii) Allowance granted to meet conveyance
expenses incurred in performance of duty, provided no free conveyance is
provided.
(iv) Allowance granted to meet expenses incurred
on a helper engaged for performance of official duty.
(v) Academic, research or training allowance
granted in educational or research institutions.
(vi) Allowance granted to meet expenditure on
purchase/ maintenance of uniform for performance of official duty.
Under Section 10(14)(ii), the following
allowances have been prescribed as exempt.
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Type of Allowance
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Amount exempt
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(i) Special
Compensatory Allowance
for hilly areas or high altitude allowance or
climate allowance.
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Rs.800 common for various areas of North East, Hilly areas of UP, HP. &
J&K and Rs. 7000 per month for
Siachen area of
J&K and Rs.300 common for all places at a
height of 1000 mts
or more other than the above places.
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(ii) Border
area allowance or remote area allowance or a difficult area allowance or
disturbed area allowance.
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Various
amounts ranging from Rs.200
per month to Rs.1300 per month are exempt for various areas specified in Rule
2BB.
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(iii) Tribal
area/Schedule area/Agency area allowance available in MP,
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Rs.200 per month.
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(iv) Any allowance granted to an employee
working in any transport system to meet his personal expenditure during duty
performed in the course of running of such transport from one place to
another place.
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70% of such allowance upto a
maximum of Rs.6000 per month.
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(v) Children education allowance.
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Rs.100 per month per child upto a
maximum 2 children.
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(vi) Allowance
granted to meet hostel
expenditure on employee’s child.
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Rs.300 per month per child upto a maximum two children.
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(vii) Compensatory
field area
allowance available in various areas of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur
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Rs.2600 per month.
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(viii) Compensatory modified
field area allowance available in specified areas of
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Rs.1000 per month
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(ix) Counter
insurgency allowance to members of Armed Forces.
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Rs.3900 Per month
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(x) Transport
Allowance granted to an employee to meet his expenditure for the purpose of commuting between the place
of residence & duty.
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Rs.800 per month.
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(xi) Transport
allowance granted to physically disabled employee for the purpose of commuting between place of duty and
residence.
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Rs.1600 per month.
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(xii) Underground allowancegranted
to an employeeworking
in under groundmines.
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Rs.800 per month.
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(xiii) Special allowance in thenature of high altitudeallowance
granted to members of the armed forces.
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Rs. 1060 p.m. (for altitude of 9000-15000
ft.) Rs.1600 p.m. (for altitude above 15000 ft.)
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(xiv) Any
special allowancegranted to the members of the armed
forces in the nature of special compensatory highly active field area
allowance
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Rs. 4,200/- p.m.
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(xv) Special allowance
granted to members of
armed forces in the
nature of island duty
allowance.
(in Andaman & Nicobar
& Lakshadweep Group
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Rs. 3,250/- p.m.
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