CA, CS, CMA : This update outlines critical compliance deadlines across FEMA, GST, Income Tax, Companies Act, and more for April 2026. It helps ...
Corporate Law : International workers from non-SSA countries cannot withdraw PF on exit. The article explains why age 58 remains the key condition...
Income Tax : The Central Government, in the Union Budget 2026, has proposed an important amendment concerning employee welfare funds. The objec...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 updates Schedule XI to remove outdated contribution and investment limits. The changes bring income-tax rul...
Income Tax : The amendment replaces the fund-specific due date with the return-filing deadline for claiming deductions. Employers gain greater ...
Corporate Law : A six-month special scheme allows employers to enrol left-out employees and regularise EPF non-compliance with minimal penalties....
Corporate Law : Ministry of Labour launches EPF Enrolment Campaign 2025 (Nov 2025 - Apr 2026) to expand social security. Employers can regularize ...
Corporate Law : EPFO increases the auto-settlement limit for advance claims to ₹5 lakhs, enabling faster access to funds for members across vari...
Corporate Law : EPFO introduces easier PF transfer with revamped Form 13 and bulk UAN generation for employers (without immediate Aadhaar)....
Corporate Law : EPFO adds 15 banks for employer contributions, expanding to 32 banks. The move aims to enhance efficiency and reduce transactional...
Income Tax : The Tribunal examined disallowance made for delayed employee contributions under Section 143(1). It held that debatable issues can...
Corporate Law : Paragraph 27AA of the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) Scheme could not be automatically imposed on establishments exempted under S...
Corporate Law : The issue was whether coconut falls under the fruit category for EPF applicability. The Court held it does, emphasizing liberal in...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court has taken up the controversy over delayed employees’ PF/ESI deposits, while the High Court upheld disallowance...
Income Tax : The assessee sought to contest an EPF/ESI disallowance arising only from CPC processing. ITAT ruled that issues from 143(1) must b...
Corporate Law : EPFO has approved acceptance of transgender identity certificates for name and gender corrections. The move strengthens inclusivit...
Corporate Law : The authority held that pension contributions wrongly paid for ineligible members must be recalculated with interest, transferred ...
Corporate Law : EPFO has confirmed that the Aadhaar–UAN seeding deadline will not be extended beyond 31 October 2025. Employers must ensure full...
Corporate Law : EPFO's campaign (Nov 2025–Apr 2026) allows employers to enroll employees missed from 2017 to 2025. Pay only employer's share and...
Corporate Law : EPFO introduces a revamped Electronic Challan-cum-Return (ECR) from September 2025 with system-based validations, revised filing o...
Subramanya Karthik Vs ITO (ITAT Bangalore) ITAT held that decisions cited by the learned Counsel for the assessee proceed on the assumption that the disallowance of employees’ share of PF and ESI paid beyond the due dates under relevant law has been made only under section 143(1)(a)(iv) of the Act, while in the intimation under […]
Chase Security Vs ITO (ITAT Bangalore) Section 36(1)(va) and Section 43B(b) operate on totally different equilibriums and have different parameters for due dates, i.e., employee’s contribution is linked to payment before the due dates specified in the respective Acts and employer’s contribution is linked to payment before the due dates specified in the respective Acts […]
Cemetile Industries Vs ITO (ITAT Pune) These appeals by different assessees are directed against the confirmation of disallowance u/s.36(1)(va) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter also called ’the Act’) made in the Intimations issued u/s.143(1) of the Act or thereafter its confirmation in the respective rectification orders for the assessment years 2017-18 to 2020-21. Due […]
1. The EPFO vide Circular dated 29 Dec 2022 lays down the eligibility criteria for employees seeking higher pensions under EPS 95 Scheme. The circular is issued to comply with the Supreme Court’s direction vide judgment pronounced on 04.11.2022 2. Para 44(ix) of the said judgment stipulated that the fund authorities shall implement the directives […]
Understand the scope of section 143(1)(a) for delayed deposit of PF/ESIC contributions under ITAT Mumbai-P.R. Packaging Service v ACIT (Mum.)(Trib.) (ITA No. 2376/Mum/2022),
In this case employee’s contribution to PF was not deposited before due date mentioned in Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. Hence, impugned amount has been rightly disallowed by AO.
The employees who had retired prior to 1st September 2014 without exercising any option under paragraph 11(3) of the pre-amendment scheme have already exited from the membership there f. They would not be entitled to the benefit of this judgment.
DCIT Vs Automac Diesels (ITAT Bangalore) ITAT held that addition can be made in respect of the employees’ contribution in regard to PF/ESI, which has not been deposited within the stipulated date as per the respective Act, since in the case on hand, the assessee has not deposited the employees, contribution within the due date […]
Delayed employees PF remittance Supreme Court decision in Checkmate Services – Under s.143(1), power to disallow. Tribunal decisions divergent.
CIT(A) was justified in sustaining the adjustment u/s 143(1)(a) by means of disallowance made in these cases for late deposit of employees’ share to the relevant funds beyond the date prescribed under the respective Acts.
