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Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 updates Schedule XI to remove outdated contribution and investment limits.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...
Budget 2021- Payment by employer of employee contribution to a fund on or before due date Clause (24) of section 2 of the Act provides an inclusive definition of the income. Sub-clause (x) to the said clause provide that income to include any sum received by the assessee from his employees as contribution to any […]
There is a lot of confusion on the issue of taxability of interest on PF (Provident fund) on employee’s contribution in excess of Rs 2,50,000 P.A w.e.f FY 2021-22. Before going in to that let’s have a relook into the provisions brought by the Finance Bill 2021. “Taxability of Interest on various funds where income […]
The budget proposals affecting salaried employees contributing toward Employee Provident Funds The finance minister has proposed to partially tax the interest accrued on the provident fund account of employees. Let us discuss the provision. Present Provisions Presently, any payment received by an employee from his provident fund account is fully tax free. The same may […]
Shishir Kumar Das Vs DCIT (ITAT Hyderabad) Decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of CIT vs. Alom Extrusions Ltd is applicable to both the employer as well as employee’s contribution to Provident Fund and ESI and if the assessee has not remitted the amount collected from the employees before the due date […]
Deployment of electronic facility at Employer Interface of EPFO’s Unified Portal for Principal Employers to view EPF compliances of their Contractors & contract workers EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND ORGANISATION (Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt. of India) Bhavishya Nidhi Bhawan, 14, Bhikaiji Cama Place, New Delhi-110 066. No. C-I/011(16)2020-21/ABRY/1179 Date: 01.02.2021 To, All Addl. CPFCs in […]
Is there any GST liability on a Labor contract, on the consideration received inclusive of ESI & PF from the Contractee Factory? And paid by the contractor to concerned Department by recovering the same from his contract Laborers? The GST recovered by the Contractor from his contract Laborers towards ESI and PF is paid to […]
All quasi judicial proceedings under the EPF & MP Act, 1952 for which functionality has been created in the ‘e proceedings portal’ must be conducted through the portal. If conduct of proceedings is not possible in any case through the portal for functional or technical reasons must be brought to the notice of the concerned Zonal Offices.
1. Applicability of Employees Provident Fund Scheme a. As per section 1 read with section 6 of The Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, an employer of establishment including factory employing 20 or more persons shall required to contribute 12 percent of the basic wages [including dearness allowance and retaining allowance (if any)] […]
Units of Debt Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) regulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India and managed by an asset management company appointed as per an agreement with Government of India, specifically meant to invest in the bonds of the Central Public Sector Enterprises, Central Public Sector Undertakings, Central Public Financial Institutions and other Government organizations:
The Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, has conveyed the approval of the Central Government under para 60(1) of Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, 1952 to credit interest @ 8.50 % for the year 2019-20 to the account of each member of the EPF Scheme as per the provisions under Para 60 of EPF Scheme, 1952.
