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| (1) Profits from any employment include-
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| | | (i) any wages, salary, allowance, leave pay, fee, pension, commission, bonus, gratuity, perquisite or such other payment in money which an employee receives in the course of his employment; |
| (ii) the value of any benefits to the employee or to his spouse, child or parent, including the value of any holiday warrant or passage; |
| (iii) any payment to any other person for the benefit of the employee or of his spouse, child or parent, |
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| | (b) the value of any conveyance granted free of any charge by an employer to any employee, or any sum so granted for the purchase of any conveyance; | | |
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| | | (i) any retiring gratuity or any sum received in commutation of pension; |
| (ii) any sum paid from a provident fund approved by the Commissioner-General to any employee at the time of his retirement from such fund, other than such part of that sum as represents his contributions to that fund; |
| (iii) any sum paid from a regulated provident fund to an employee other than-
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| (iv) any sum received as compensation for loss of any office or employment; |
| (v) any sum paid from the Employees Trust Fund established by the Employees' Trust Fund Act, No. 46 of 1980; |
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| | (d) the rental value of any place of residence provided rent-free by the employer or where a place of residence is provided by an employer at a rent less than the rental value, the excess of the rental value over such rent. | | |
| | (e) the value at the time of its disposal, of any share of a company received as a benefit from the employer or on behalf of the employer at no cost or at a price which is less than the prevailing market value of such share of that company, whether directly or through a share option scheme. | | |
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| (2) For the purposes of this section, "the value of any benefit", in relation to an individual who has received, or derived such benefit, means -
| | (a) where the market value of such benefit can be readily ascertained, such market value; or | | |
| | (b) where the market value of such benefit cannot be readily ascertained or such benefit has no market value, the cost that would have to be incurred by any other individual to obtain such benefit: | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts