Clarification on IT deduction on medical reimbursement

OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, UP(East]
PRATYAKSH KAR BHAWAN
57, RAM TIRATH MARG, LUCKNOW- 226 001

F.No.Pr.CCIT/Tech. /Lko/RTI/2019-20/2023-24

Dated:27.10.2023

To
The CPIO/Dy. Commissioner of Income Tax (Hq.)(Admn.),
O/o The Pr. Chief Commissioner of Income Tax UP(East),
Lucknow.

Madam,

Subject: Requisition of information under the RTI Act, 2005- reg.

Please refer to your office letter bearing F.N. RTIV/FA/Pr. CCIT/Lko/Vol.1/2023-24/3352 dated 19.10.2023 regarding the above mentioned subject vide which copy of order of the First Appellate Authority dated 17.10.2023 and RTI application dated 11.07.2023 filed by Sh. Yaduvesh Chaturvedi was sent to this office.

(i) Sub clause (a) of clause (ii) of the provisa to clause (2) of section 17 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 says that any sum paid by the employer in respect of any expenditure actually incurred by the employee on his medical treatment or treatment of any member of his family in any hospital maintained by the Government or any local authority or any other hospital approved by the Government for the purposes of medical treatment of its employees; shall not be treated as ‘perquisite’ therefore not taxable under the head ‘salaries’.

For clarify, provisio to clause (2) of section 17 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 is being reproduced hereunder:

Provided that nothing in this clause shall apply to,—

(i) the value of any medical treatment provided to an employee of any member of his family in any hospital maintained by the employer,

(ii) any sum paid by the employer in respect of any expenditure actually incurred by the employee on his medical treatment or treatment of any member of his family—

(a) in any hospital maintained by the Government or any local authority of any other hospital approved by the Government for the purposes of Medical treatment of it employees.

(b) in respect of the prescribed diseases⁸⁵ of ailments, in any hospital approved by the Principal Chief Commissioner or Chief Commissioner having regard to the prescribed guidelines⁸⁶

Provided that, in a case falling in sub-clause (5), the employee shall attach⁸⁷ with his return of income a certificate from the hospital specifying the disease or ailment for which-medical treatment was  required and the receipt for the amount paid to the hospital;

Yours faithfully,

(N.R. Chakravarty)
Dy. Commissioner of Income Tax (Hq.)(Tech.),
O/o the Pr. Chief Commissioner of Income-tax, Lucknow.