TMI Blog80C DEDUCTION ON THE INSURANCE PREMIUM PAID BY EMPLOYERX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 80C DEDUCTION ON THE INSURANCE PREMIUM PAID BY EMPLOYER X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... PREMIUM PAID ? Reply By CA Rachit Agarwal: The Reply: Your employer must be taking the deduction for the insurance premium paid. Above all the insurance premium is niether paid by you nor it is being deducted from you account. Hence in our openion such premium would not be eligible for deduction u/s 80C. Reply By GOPALJI AGRAWAL: The Reply: To my mind, once the premium is taxable in the han ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ds of employee, he would be entitled for deduction. Reply By VIPIN GARG: The Reply: As far as I concern, employee can not take deduction on the insurance premium paid by the employer. U/S 80C, for claiming the deduction of insurance premium, there is a pre condition that, it should be paid by the person who is taking the deduction. But if the employer is recovering the same from the employee sa ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... lary then yes the picture is somehow different, then it can be deemed as indirect payment by the employee and employee can take the deduction of such premium.
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VIPIN GARG
Reply By Seetharaman K C:
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I think the deduction would be allowable only if it is paid by the employee. In this case it is paid by the employer and therefore would not qualify for deduction X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... rum - Knowledge Sharing ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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