Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
INCOME
Chapter 10
By: Anna Janinah E. Ramos
EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE
RELATIONSHIP
EMPLOYER EMPLOYEE
■ A person who has control ■ An individual who is a
over the payment of the recipient of wages.
employee remuneration.
■ If such person is a NRA-
NETB, the employer is
deemed the person paying
remuneration in their
behalf.
Elements of Employer-Employee
Relationship under case law:
1.Selection and engagement of employees
2.Payment of wages
3.Power of dismissal
4.Power of control
Thus, the income of consultants, directors
without management function, artists are not
consider as compensation income but are
business or professional income.
Types of Employee
As to FUNCTION: As to TAXABILITY:
1. Managerial Employees – given powers to lay 1. Minimum Wage Earners – employee in the
down and execute managerial policies, private sector who is paid the minimum
and/or hire, transfer, suspend, layoff, recall, wage or to an employee in the puctic
discharge, assign, or discipline employee. sector who is paid not more than the
2. Supervisory Empoyees - who effectively statutory minumum wage.
recommend such managerial actions if the 2. Regular Employees – employees subject
exercise of such authority is not merely to regular progressive income tax.
routinary or clerical in nature but requires
the use of independent judgement.
3. Rank and File Employees – who hold neither
managerial nor supervisory function;
EXEMPT BENEFITS UNDER THE
NIRC, AS AMENDED, AND
SPECIAL LAWS
1. Remuneration received as incidents of employment
2. De Minimis Benefits
3. 13th month pay and other benefits not exceeding P90,000
4. Certain benefits of minimum wage earners.
Remuneration Received as
incidents of employment
a. Exempt retirement benefits under RA7641 including
exempt retirement gratuities to government officials
and employeer.
b. Exempt termination benefits
c. Benefits from the United States Veterans
Administration
d. Social security, retirement gratuities, pensions, and
similar benefits from foreign government agencies
and other institutions, private or public
e. Benefits from SSS, under SSS Act of 1954, as
amended
f. Benefits from GSIS under the GSIS Act of 1937, as
De minimis benefits
- Are facilities or privilages such as
entertainment, medical services, or courtesy
discounts on purchases that are relatively
small value and are furnished by the
employer merely as a means of promoting the
health, goodwill, contentment, or efficiency of
his employees.
- De minimis benefits are petty fringe benefits
exempt from income tax
De minimis benefits
■ Monetized unused vacation leave credits of private
employees not exceeding 10 days during the year.
■ Monetized unused vacation and sick leave credits paid to
government officials and employees.
■ Medical cash allowance to dependence of employees not
exceeding 1500 per employee per semester or 375 per
month.
■ Rice subsidy not exceeding 2000 or 1 sack of 50 kg rice per
month amounting to not more than 2,000.
■ Uniform in clothing allowance not exceeding 6000 per
annum.
■ Actual medical assistance, e.g., medical allowance to cover
medical and health care needs, annual or medical executive
check-up, maternity assistance, and routine consultations
not exceeding 10000 per annum.
De minimis benefits
■ Laundry allowance not exceeding 300 per month
■ Employee achievement award, e.g., for length of service or
safety achievement, which must be in the form of tangible
property other than cash or gift certificates, with an annual
monetary value not exceeding P10,000 received by the
employee under an established written plan which does not
discriminate in favor of highly paid employees.
■ Gifts given during Christmas and major anniverssary
celebrations not exceeding P5,000 per employee per annum
(i.e., Christmas gift and anniversary gifts)
■ Daily meal allowance for overwork and night or graveyard shift
not exceeding 25% of the basic minimum wage on a per region
basis (i.e., overtime meal)
■ Benefits received by an employee by virtue of a collective
bargaining agreement (CBA) and productivity incentive
schemes provided that the total annual monetary value
Taxable de minimis benefits
1. Excess de minimis over their regulatory limits
2. Other benefits of realtively small value that
are not included in the list of de minimis benefits