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Nov 14, 2019
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Tax department wants to impose 18% GST on CXO salaries
The tax department has started questioning top companies and banks if they were passing on some of the common costs like salaries of chief executives to their branch offices. The department wants companies to proportionately distribute common costs from head office to branch offices and treat this as a supply. Once this is treated as a supply, 10% of it has to be added to the cost and 18% Goods and Services Tax (GST) could be levied on the total amount. Some of the top companies headquartered in Pune, Mumbai and New Delhi have started receiving queries from the tax department on cross-charging. Under the GST framework, nothing is for free, including some of the common functions carried out at a company’s or a bank’s head office like human resource, IT functions, audit and legal fees paid.
“The interpretation adopted by the tax authorities is that an employee of an organisation should be considered as an employee of a particular office only (not the organisation as a whole) for GST-related purposes.
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