Payment of Professional Tax to Chennai Corporation

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20 June 2025 A manpower company based in Chennai recruits personnel to serve as security guards and for other allied services, deploying them to various government agencies, banks, private establishments, and other authorities. The minimum wages and allowances (Pay plus variable Dearness Allowance) payable to these contract labourers have been fixed at ₹21,000.

My query is: Who is responsible for the deduction and remittance of Professional Tax payable by these contract labourers to the respective Local Bodies? All such labourers fall within the taxable slabs and are therefore liable to pay Professional Tax. Specifically, does the responsibility lie with the manpower company, or with the organization that engages these labourers on a contractual basis?







20 June 2025 Who pays salary to the labours.

21 June 2025 The salary is being paid by the Manpower agency and later on reimbursed by the authority to which the laborer is deployer

21 June 2025 So, the manpower agency is liable...


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