Companies Act, 1956
Sec 200 - Prohibition
of tax-free payments.
(1) No company shall pay to any officer or
employee thereof, whether in his capacity as such or otherwise, remuneration
free of any tax, or otherwise calculated by reference to, or varying with, any
tax payable by him, or the rate or standard rate of any such tax, or the amount
thereof.
Explanation: In this sub-section,
the expression " tax " comprises any kind of income-tax including
super-tax.
(2) Where by virtue of any provision in force
immediately before the commencement of this Act, whether contained in the
company's articles, or in any contract made with the company, or in any
resolution passed by the company in general meeting or by the company's Board
of directors, any officer or employee of the company holding any office at the
commencement of this Act is entitled to remuneration in any of the modes
prohibited by sub-section (1), such provision shall have effect during the
residue of the term for which he is entitled to hold such office at such
commencement, as if it provided instead for the payment of a gross sum subject
to the tax in question, which, after deducting such tax, would yield the net
sum actually specified in such provision.
(3) This section shall not apply to any
remuneration:
(a) which fell due before the commencement of
this Act, or
(b) which may fall due after the commencement
of this Act, in respect of any period before such commencement.