{"id":250749,"date":"1998-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-07-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-w-b-and-ors-vs-texmaco-ltd-on-30-july-1998"},"modified":"2017-04-14T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:34:32","slug":"state-of-w-b-and-ors-vs-texmaco-ltd-on-30-july-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-w-b-and-ors-vs-texmaco-ltd-on-30-july-1998","title":{"rendered":"State Of W.B. And Ors. vs Texmaco Ltd. on 30 July, 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"
Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n
State Of W.B. And Ors. vs Texmaco Ltd. on 30 July, 1998<\/div>\n
Equivalent citations: AIR 1999 SC 2366, JT 1998 (9) SC 437, (1999) 1 SCC 198<\/div>\n
Bench: S Bharucha, K Venkataswami<\/div>\n

ORDER<\/p>\n

1. The respondent-Company has a scheme whereunder it pays to its employees what is called an “incentive bonus”. The appellants took the stand that the incentive bonus fell within the definition of “salary” or “wage” contained in Section 2(j) of the West Bengal State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1979, and, therefore it was<\/p>\n

liable to the levy of tax under that statute, which the respondent-Company was bound to deduct and pay on behalf of its employees. This contention was the subject-matter of applications before the West Bengal Taxation Tribunal. In its order under appeal, the Tribunal found that it was common ground that the incentive bonus was linked to production. It was paid at a certain rate for production in excess of a specified minimum quantity. It was payable only when production exceeded that quantity. If in a particular month the production did not exceed the specified minimum quantity, there was no payment. If, on the other hand, there was in another month production exceeding the minimum quantity, the incentive bonus was payable commensurate with the additional production, which was naturally variable from month to month. Upon this basis, the Tribunal found that the payment of incentive bonus was not made on a regular basis and that, therefore, the requirement of the definition of “salary” or “wage” in Section 2(j) was not satisfied.\n<\/p>\n

2. That definition says, so far as is relevant for our purposes, that “salary” or “wage” includes “pay, dearness allowance and all other remunerations received by any person on regular basis whether payable in cash or in kind…\n<\/p>\n

(Emphasis supplied).\n<\/p>\n

3. The findings of fact reached by the Tribunal are clear. The scheme of the respondent-Company providing for incentive bonus sets out that it is payable only when production exceeds a specified minimum quantity. This implies that
\nthe incentive bonus is not paid when production does not exceed that minimum quantity. If so, clearly, the incentive bonus is not a remuneration received by the respondent Company’s employees “on regular basis”.\n<\/p>\n

4. Learned Counsel for the appellant submitted, however, that there was a scheme and that suggested regularity of payment. Judged only upon the basis of the scheme, it must be held, ‘that it contemplates situations where the incentive bonus is payable and situations where it is not payable. Judged on the scheme, therefore
\nthe payments of incentive bonus are not on regular basis. It would have been another matter had the appellants been able to place material before the Tribunal to show that, despite the terms of the scheme, there had in fact been, over a sub<\/p>\n

stantial period of time, payment of incentive ‘bonus from month to month.\n<\/p>\n

5. In the result, the appeals are dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court of India State Of W.B. And Ors. vs Texmaco Ltd. on 30 July, 1998 Equivalent citations: AIR 1999 SC 2366, JT 1998 (9) SC 437, (1999) 1 SCC 198 Bench: S Bharucha, K Venkataswami ORDER 1. The respondent-Company has a scheme whereunder it pays to its employees what is called an “incentive bonus”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"\nState Of W.B. 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