Payment of Bonus Act


The Fourth Schedule

(See Sections 15 and 16)

In this Schedule, the total amount of bonus equal to 8.33 percent of the annual salary or wage payable to all the employees is assumed to be Rs. 1,04,167. Accordingly, the maximum bonus to which all the employees are entitled to be paid (twenty percent of the annual salary or wage of all the employees) would be Rs. 2,50,000.

 

Year

Amount equal to sixty percent or sixty-seven percent as the case may be, of available surplus allocable as bonus

Amount payable as bonus

Set on or set off of the year carried forward

Total set on or set off carried forward

1

2

3

4

5

 

Rs.

Rs.

Rs.

Rs. of (year)

 

1.

1,04,167

1,04,167**

Nil

Nil

2.

6,35,000

2,50,000*

Set on 2,50,000*

Set on
2,50,000 (2)

3.

2,20,000

2,50,000* (inclusive of 30,000 from year-2)

Nil

Set on
2,20,000 (2)

4.

3,75,000

2,50,000*

Set on 1,25,000

Set on 2,20,000 (2) 1,25,000 (4)

5.

1,40,000

2,50,000* (inclusive of 1,10,000 from year-2)

Nil

Set on 1,10,000 (2) 1,25,000 (4)

6.

3,10,000

2,50,000*

Set on
60,000

Set on Nil*** (2)
1,,25,000 (4)
60,000 (6)

7.

1,00,000

2,50,000* (inclusive of 1,25,000 from year-4 and 25,000 from year-6)

Nil

Set on
35,000 (6)

8.

Nil
(due to loss)

1,04,167** (inclusive of 35,000 from year-6)

Set off
69,167

Set on
69,167 (8)

9.

10,000

1,04,167**

Set off
94,167

Set off
69,167 (8)
94,167 (9)

10.

2,15,000

1,04,167** (after setting off 69,167 from year-8 and 41,666 from year-9)

Nil

Set off
52,501

Note:

* Maximum; 
** Minimum   
*** The balance of Rs. 1,10,000 set on from year-2 lapses.