Government has decided to relax LTC rules by permitting Central government employees to travel by any airlines to visit Jammu and Kashmir. All officers and employees of the Central government will be allowed to avail LTC to visit the state against "conversion of one block of their home town LTC", an ...

A government employee is not entitled to claim house rent allowance (HRA) as a matter of right, the Delhi High Court has held, saying that it is compensatory allowance paid in exchange of accommodation facilities. "HRA is not a part of pay but is a compensatory allowance in lieu of accommodation... ...

Recent enhancement in limits of gratuity payment has generally been cheered by employees although some worry that these limits for non-government employees are applicable prospectively and not retrospectively. A lot of queries have been received as to the taxability or otherwise of the gratuity received by different category of employees. ...

The Delhi High Court has held that an employee in unauthorized occupation of the premises of the employer is not entitled to house rent allowance(HRA). "If the employees inspite of unauthorisedly occupying the accommodation of the employer are also held entitled to HRA, it would tantamount to allowing them to ...

The finance ministry is hastening slowly on its radical proposals for changes in tax rules. Thanks to public resistance to giving up their pet tax exemptions, the ministry has put out a new discussion paper of the direct tax code (DTC) that, inter alia, will go slower in reducing tax ...