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...
A new facility has been launched in employee’s Member Interface of Unified Portal for the employees/members to submit Online Claims based on Composite Claim Form (Aadhar) for availing the benefits under EPF (Form-19), Pension (Form-10C) & PF Part Withdrawals (Form-31).
ollections of EPF dues have been started with PNB, Allahabad Bank, Indian Bank, Union Bank of India in addition to State Bank of India through direct online mode.
The different application forms for Certificate of Coverage (COC) in respect of Indian Worker (having Indian Passport) going to work in a country with which India is having Social Security Agreement (SSA) has been revised into a single form keeping in view the new COC application software being developed by IS division.
Several references have been received from the field offices that cases where two years weightage was given where the past service comes out to 20 years, the new application software while generating the worksheet has reduced the past service benefits in comparison to that calculated in legacy software. The matter has been examined and the following clarification is issued.
An Indian employee will be treated as International Worker only when (i) he has worked or is going to work in a foreign country with which India has entered into Social Security Agreement and (ii) he is eligible to avail the benefits under a social security programme of the said foreign country.
EPFO has been nominated as the nodal organisation for implementation of the PMRPY/PMPRPY Scheme vis-à-vis verification of the credentials of the eligible beneficiaries and payment of benefits to them in accordance with the guidelines of PMRPY/PMPRPY schemes besides creating awareness for maximum outreach of the PMRPY/PMPRPY
Allowing members of the EPS’ 95 the benefit of the actual salary in the Pension Fund exceeding wage limit of either Rs. 5000/- or Rs. 6500/- per month from the effective date respectively as per the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s order in Civil Appeal NO(S) 10013-10014 of2016 arising out of SLP No. 33032-33033 of 2015
All the exempted Trusts are hereby advised to submit the pending online returns from October, 2016 till date. It is clarified that the return for the wage month March, 2017 is to be filed latest by 15th of May, 2017
It is advised to identify the uncovered Beedi establishments as well as unenrolled employees, and ensure social security benefits to all the eligible and left out employees under the schemes of EPF & MP Act, 1952.
EPFO Housing Scheme for PF members-Salient Feature- 1. To facilitate housing needs of EPF Members 2. Insertion of new provision- Para 68-BD in EPF Scheme, 1952 3. Applicable from 12th April 2017- Date of Notification
