An employer can give its employees benefit for superannuation. The employer can give tax free compensation upto 15 % of its basic to its employees by introducing a superannuation scheme.  Provision of pension through a superannuation scheme may be an attraction for employees to continue in the organization and give their best to the organization, as with continuous improvement Moreover superannuation gives a regular income even after retirement which has become a necessity. To provide the pension benefits to employees, an employer has two alternatives under the provisions of Rule 89 of Income Tax Rules 1962.

1. Create a privately managed trust fund and as and when a member retires, purchase annuity from LIC to provide pension for such retiring member.
2. Entrust the Management of the Pension Fund to an Insurer by purchasing its Group Superannuation Scheme. The employer can also manage a trust by himself by making investments in specified securities.

1. An attractive and competitive yield on the fund will be credited to Fund account.


2. The problem of liquidity gets automatically eliminated as soon as the fund is managed by LIC.


3. LIC conducts free actuarial valuations of the funds administered by us from time to time.


4. The Administration of the fund is carried out by us in a scientific manner and claims are promptly settled.


5. Group Insurance in conjunction with the Group Superannuation Scheme can be taken by an Organization to provide for an attractive lump sum payment on the unfortunate death of a member while in service, at very nominal cost.

The employer contributes a certain fixed percentage of salary of each member. Such Contributions are accumulated by LIC and the accumulated amount is utilized to provide Various benefits as mentioned below.

1) On Retirement:

On Retirement of a member, the corpus (contributions plus interest) is utilized to provide the pension as per his choice.

2) On Death:

The Pension is payable on the life of the beneficiary. Corpus is utilized towards the payment of pension of the type the beneficiary may opt and the benefit so received is tax free. A lump sum payable by way of death besides the pension, if the employer has taken Group Insurance Scheme in conjunction with the Group Superannuation Scheme.

3) On Withdrawal:

• He can get the equitable interest transferred to the Superannuation Scheme of the new employer
• Opt for immediate or deferred pension in case he resigns and the trust rules permit him to avail benefit.

Pension Options Provided By LIC:

• Life Pension ceasing at death.
• Life Pension with Return of Capital and Group Pension Terminal Bonus on death.
• Life Pension guaranteed for 5, 10, 15 or 20 years and life thereafter.
• Joint Life Pension payable on the last survivor of the employee and spouse.
• Joint Life Pension payable to the last survivor of the employee and spouse with return of capital on the death of the last survivor. If desired, 1/3rd of the pension can be commuted at vesting.

It is not obligatory or statutory on the part of the employer to provide for pension to all employees. It is entirely upto him to decide to which class/ classes of employees he desires to extends the scheme. The eligibility conditions may be defined on the basis of designation or salary. (However, after the categories are specified, employer cannot discriminate between the employees and thus extends the scheme uniformly).

The maximum annual contribution that an employer can make to the Pension Fund and Provident Fund is restricted by the Income Tax Provisions to 27% of the annual salary (basic plus D.A.) The annual contributions are treated as deductible business expenses.

The provisions relating to the approved Superannuation Scheme are set out in Part 'B' of the Fourth Scheme of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 and Part XIII of the Income Tax Rules, 1962. The income tax concession will be available only if the scheme is approved by the CIT.

1. The annual contribution is treated as a deductible business expense in term of Section 36(1) (iv) of the I.T. Act.
2. In terms of a Notification issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes .80% of the contribution (s) towards the past service liability are treated as deductible business expenses spread over in the subsequent years of payment.
3. The employee's contribution, in the case of the Contributions scheme qualifies for exemption under Section 80C of the Income-Tax Act.

The members of the Group Superannuation scheme can be covered under Group Insurance in conjunction with superannuation scheme so as to provide death risk cover while in service subject to certain conditions.