You can encash unused leave time in exchange for cash. The ability to encash acquired leave is available to employees upon retirement. Whether you want to maintain your position or resign, it needs to be done. Employees can encash their leave in a variety of ways depending on their company. Non-advanced leave may be reimbursed by some companies for the following curriculum year. Whenever you have excess leaves left over, you can carry them forward to the next year.
In addition, non-advertised leave is provided to candidates who leave the company. Employees may be able to encash their leave depending on the nature of their employment. No matter whether someone is employed, on vacation, or retired, they are included in this definition.
Benefits of leave encashment
- As long as the employee is in service, proceeds received for leave encashment are chargeable.
- You are entirely responsible for the amount collected on account of leave encashment if you withdraw from a job due to termination or resignation, regardless of whether you are employed in the private or public sector.
- Leave encashment rules – Amounts earned for leave encashment are taxed under income tax rules as income from payroll and taxed at the employee’s specific tax slab rate.
- In the case of government representatives (state and central), leave encashment is exempt from taxation at retirement.
- There are three types of retirement benefits available to non-government representatives:
- a. The exact value of the leave encashment
- b. A standard percentage of turnover based on the employee’s average pay described within the last ten months directly before leaving is applied to a ten month’s normal pay (earnings allowance, basic salary, and commission.)
- c. An equivalent amount of cash for unutilized earned leaves (leave obtained for each year of service cannot exceed 30 days).
- d. Three lakh rupees – the maximum amount defined by the government.
- Think about what would happen if you received Rs 5 lakh upon retirement as leave encashment. During the 10 months immediately preceding your retirement, you earned Rs 4 lakh in total (basic + DA + commission). There is a sanctioned limit of Rs 3 lakh for exemptions in this situation. The difference of Rs 5 lakh and Rs 3 lakh is calculated as your income and is therefore taxed.
- No leave encashment is payable to the heirs of a late employee.
- If an employee receives leave encashment and avails of any exceptions in relation to this, the employee will have to pay the difference. If this happens, the Rs 3 lakh limit will be reduced by the amount of the release already granted.
- If the employee resigns or retires before encashment of their leaves, the amount collected by them is exempt from taxes. According to the director of tax and administrative services, the amount of the exception will be reduced by that amount.
- Hence, leave encashments permitted on retirement will also be exempt from tax, subject to the detailed limits outlined by the Bombay High Court.
Read more,