Income tax

In proceedings concerning a tax avoidance scheme by which employers paid remuneration to their employees through an employees’ remuneration trust (consisting of a principal trust and sub-trusts), it was not necessary that the employee himself should receive, or at least be entitled to receive, the remuneration for his work in order for that reward to amount to taxable emoluments. Accordingly, the Supreme Court, in dismissing the appellant’s appeal, held that payments made to the principal trust should have been subject to deduction of income tax.