emolument

By this subsection we define emoluments as covering any form of valuable consideration and that, I think, meets the point which my noble friend indicated to your Lordships.

is, for a soldier, defined as more than is required for subsistence.

You cliam, I gather, that this which is given for subsistence allowance an allowance which is given merely for food and subsistence -might become an emolument and that the Department should not inquire whether it is so large an allowance that it becomes an emolument or more than is required for subsistence' Parliamentary Papers: 1850-1908, Volume 12, Part 1 By Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons . 21 May 1906 Mr. T. McKinney

is inclusive of all salaries, fees, wages, perquisites and profits whatsoever.

Mr Ridley: Sections 181 and 183 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 charge to tax the emoluments of any office or employment and define 'emoluments' as including 'all salaries, fees, wages, perquisites and profits whatsoever'

is latin for 'payment to a miller for grinding corn' and means 'profit, gain, advantage, benefit.

emolument (n.) mid-15c., from Old French emolument 'advantage, gain, benefit... income, revenue' (13c.) and directly from Latin emolumentum 'profit, gain, advantage, benefit,' perhaps originally 'payment to a miller for grinding corn,' from emolere 'grind out,' from assimilated form of ex 'out' (see ex-) + molere 'to grind' (see mallet).

is something paid to one for his work over and above the wages actually agreed to be paid.

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