Building Societies Act, 1989

Prohibition of tax-free payments.

62.—(1) It shall not be lawful for a society to pay a director remuneration (whether as director or otherwise) free of income tax or otherwise calculated by reference to or varying with the amount of his income tax or to or with the rate of income tax.

(2) Any provision in a society's rules or in any contract or in any resolution of a society or a society's directors, for payment to a director of remuneration as in subsection (1) shall have effect as if it provided for payment, as a gross sum subject to income tax, of the net sum for which it actually provides.

(3) In this section “remuneration” includes emoluments within the meaning of section 191 of the Act of 1963.