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Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 updates Schedule XI to remove outdated contribution and investment limits.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...
HR process management is one of the finest and sensitive components of any organization. Indeed an organization cannot function in the right way if there is any disturbance in at least one of the processes involved in HR process. Now, first of all let’s understand about the various functions involved in a HR process.
Vide notification dated 22.08.2014 Ministry of Labour and Employment has increased Employee Provident Fund (EPF) Limit to Rs. 15000 from existing Rs. 6500 wef 01.09.2014.
Ministry of Labour & Employment issued notifications enhancing statutory wage ceiling from existing Rs. 6,500/- to ₹ 15,000/-, fixing minimum pension of ₹ 1000/- per month and 20% additional relief on the amount of assurance benefit admissible under EDLI Scheme, 1976.
The petitioner establishment contended that since manufacturing of ‘rusk’ is not mentioned in Schedule 1 to the Act, therefore the EPF & MP Act, 1952 is not applicable to them.
The Honible Union Minister of Finance in the Budget speech for 2014-15 has announced enhancement in statutory wage ceiling for enrollment under the EPF & MP Act 1952 to Rs. 15,000/- per month from the current maximum of Rs. 6,500/- per month. The notification for same is likely to be issued shortly.
BENEFITS OF PENSION SCHEME a. An Employee is eligible for Pension after 10 years of service. b. The Pension is payable on attaining the age of 58 years, whether he is in service or superannuated. c. Early Pension at reduced rate can be availed on leaving the employment, after attaining the age of 50 years. […]
Government has approved payment of 8.75 per cent rate of interest on PF deposits in 2013-14 for over five crore subscribers of retirement fund body EPFO. The Finance Ministry has given its concurrence to the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) trustees’ decision to provide 8.75 per cent rate of interest to its members for the […]
EPFO has taken a revolutionary step in year 2012 by launching its EMPLOYER E- SEVA portal which benefited the employer by way in reducing the hassles of submitting the paper return to EPFO office. The EPFO announced an online withdrawal and transfer provision for employee’s provident fund (EPF) from 1 July 2013, with the aim to settle claims faster.
For registration, a employer has to get these documents ready (to be submitted by an employer along with one or more of the documents mentioned below for obtaining Code Number): 1. Name of the establishment/factory and address. 2. Details of Head Office and branches with address.
Provident Fund scheme was started by few concerns even before the enactment of the act. The government in 1952 framed this act for the benefit and welfare of the employees. This act is applicable to employees drawing pay not more than Rs. 6,500 pm but at the time of registration the same employee pay should not exceed Rs. 5,000.
