CA, CS, CMA : A comprehensive guide covering 175 legal compliances for July 2026 under FEMA, Income Tax, GST, SEBI, Companies Act, Labour Laws, ...
Corporate Law : EPFO simplified PF withdrawal rules by reducing categories and easing eligibility, but most claims continue to fail because of KYC...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department has explained the tax treatment of gratuity, pension, leave encashment, provident funds, NPS, and retire...
Income Tax : Under the earlier law, even a one-day delay in depositing employee contributions resulted in permanent tax disallowance. The new r...
Corporate Law : International workers from non-SSA countries cannot withdraw PF on exit. The article explains why age 58 remains the key condition...
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 ITAT Ahmedabad upheld the disallowance of employees' PF/ESI contributions deposited beyond the due dates prescribed under the ...
Income Tax : The ITAT Ahmedabad held that proportionate interest disallowance cannot be sustained without establishing a direct nexus between b...
Income Tax : The Agra ITAT held that disallowance of employees' PF and ESI contributions could not be made through Section 143(1) processing wh...
Income Tax : The Tribunal rejected the challenge to disallowance of delayed PF and ESI employee contributions, relying on the Supreme Court's d...
Income Tax : The Tribunal examined disallowance made for delayed employee contributions under Section 143(1). It held that debatable issues can...
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...
Superlite Jointings Private Ltd Vs Circle-2 (2) (ITAT Delhi) The sum and substances of the grievance in the captioned appeal pertains to the disallowance of PF and ESI payments on account of these payments being made beyond the due date specified under the specific parent legislation but before filing of the Income Tax Return. After […]
Google India Private Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) ITAT held that assessee would be entitled to deduction of employees’ contribution to PF and ESI provided that the payments were made prior to the due date of filing of the return of income u/s 139(1) of the I.T.Act. It was further held by the ITAT that […]
There are many changes in the tax rules effective 1st April 2022, Out of which I am going to discuss are New tax rules on EPF Interest, Taxation of Virtual Digital Assets, Filing of Updated IT Return and Tax relief on Covid-19 treatment expenses and compensation. 1. New tax rules on EPF Interest: Effective April 1, […]
Employees Provident Fund and Employees State Insurance are two social security scheme availably to the working class in India. These are the central government schemes, comes under the jurisdiction of The Ministry of Labour and Employment. Both the schemes introduced with the objective to improve the working class condition. It’s the employer’s duty to register […]
Deloitte Haskins & Sells Vs Additional Director of Income Tax (ITAT Kolkata) ITAT, Kolkata has specifically propounded that if employees’ contribution received by an assessee and paid to ESI and PF accounts before the due date of filing of the return, then the assessee will be eligible to claim the deduction of such amounts. With […]
Krishna Kanha Shelters Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Agra) ITAT held that AO was not justified in denying, the deduction claimed by the assessee for AY 2018-19 on account of late deposit of PF/ESI/EPF, albeit before filing the return of income. Admittedly in all the above-stated matters, the revenue had not contended that the assessee […]
ITAT held that, the said amendment to Section 39(1)(va) and Section 43B effected by Finance Act 2021 is having prospective effect. Since, the said amendment is having prospective effect and not being retrospective one the same cannot be applied to the present case.
Kulgaon Badlapur Nagar Parishad Vs Regional Provident Fund Commissioner II (Bombay High Court) HC held that There is a purpose behind prescribing a limitation period to prefer an Appeal, by way of a statutory provision under any enactment. It is a period which is rightfully allocated to the aggrieved party to prefer an Appeal or […]
ITAT held that amended provisions of section 43B as well as 36(1)(va) of the I.T. Act are not applicable for the assessment year 2018-19.
Arjun Yadav Vs DCIT (ITAT Chandigarh) In the instant case, it is not in dispute that employees’ contribution to ESI and PF had been deposited well before the due date of filing of return of income u/s 139(1) of the Act. We further note that though the ld. CIT(A) has not disputed the various decisions […]
