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Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 updates Schedule XI to remove outdated contribution and investment limits.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...
EPFO Launches online receipt of Electronic Challan cum Return (ECR) from the Month of April 2012 (March paid in April). Employers are requested to Register their establishments and create their user id and password through this portal. The registered employers can upload the Electronic Return and the uploaded return data will be displayed through a digitally signed copy in PDF format. It will be available for printing also. Once approved by the employer online Challan will be popped based on uploaded return. The employer may choose to make the payment through internet banking of SBI or take a print out of the Challan and pay at any designated branch of State Bank of India (SBI).
How to Check Online Balance in Your Employee Provident Fund Account- Please click on the following link to know the balance in your EPF Account upto the date, the accounts are updated, which also includes the latest approved transactions of settlement/advances/transfer-in/transfer-out, if any. Select the EPFO office where your account is maintained and furnish your PF Account number. Leave the extension field blank, in case your account does not have one.
Grant of family pension to next eligible member in the family in the case of missing family pensioners – HO No. HRD/12(4) 2011/ Family Pension/21046 dated 20/03/2012
References are received from various field offices pointing out that implementation of the instructions contained in the circular referred in Para 1 above will lead to return of claims already received in the office wherein the benefits payable are more than Rs. 10,000/-. This will lead to undue hardship to the PF beneficiaries.
The circular no.Coord. / 4 (6) 2003/ clarification / Vol. -II/ 7394 dated 23.05.2011 regarding splitting of minimum wages for the purpose of PF contribution is kept in abeyance in view of the verdict of Hon’ble High Court of Punjab and Haryana in the matter of LPA No. 1139 of 2011(O&M) Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner Vs M/s G4S Security Services(India) Ltd. & Another till out come of the SLP (C) No. 20085/ 2011 filed by EPFO against the above decision of High Court of Punjab & Haryana.
Amendment in Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 and in Employees’ Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme, 1976 for submission of E-returns – HO No. Coord./40(1)2011/claim settlement/33462 dated 04/11/2011
Retirement fund manager EPFO will seek the legal opinion on implementation of the order of the MP High Court throughout the country under which employers and employees will be required to increase their contributions to the provident fund. ‘We will seek legal opinion and also the opinion of Ministry of Law and Justice Ministry, through Labour Ministry, on the MP High Court order throughout the country,’ Central Provident Fund Commissioner Samirendra Chatterjee said.
Montage Enterprises Pvt. Ltd versus Employees Provident Fund – 1. Conveyance allowance is included in the definition of basic wages because it is universally, necessarily and ordinarily paid to all across the board. 2. Special allowance is included in the basic wages since it is paid to all the workers and there are no specific criteria to determine the amount of special allowance.
It has been brought to the notice of the Head Office that, in some case of grant of exemption, funds have not been transferred to the PF trusts, subsequent to the grant of exemption/relaxation, by the Appropriate Authority. It is therefore requested that, the matter may be examined and wherever required, necessary action for transfer of funds to the PF trusts granted relaxation/exemption by the Appropriate Authorities may be initiated immediately. Details of all such cases along with the reasons for non- transfer of funds, also be submitted to Head Office within one week.
he EPFO has issued an inter-department clarification on May 23, 2011 indicating that splitting of minimum wages for the purposes of PF contributions is not permissible. This Clarification, which has been issued in view of the lack of a uniform approach followed by the PF authorities in different states, seems to be an attempt by the labour department to settle the ongoing ambiguity with respect to the calculation of provident fund contributions.
