Corporate Law : EPFO simplified PF withdrawal rules by reducing categories and easing eligibility, but most claims continue to fail because of KYC...
Corporate Law : Learn about the key features of EPFO 3.0, including instant withdrawals, mobile access, and faster claim settlements. Understand h...
CA, CS, CMA : Summary of notifications and circulars from August 18-24, 2025, covering new income tax rules for employee perquisites, GST update...
Corporate Law : A summary of the EPFO's new mandate requiring UAN generation and activation through the UMANG app with Facial Authentication Techn...
Corporate Law : Key Labour law rulings in November 2024: ESI, ID Act, Provident Fund, and more across various High Courts....
Corporate Law : Simplified online registration, auto-enrolment via MCA portal, and digital initiatives have led to a 251% rise in new EPFO registr...
Corporate Law : A six-month special scheme allows employers to enrol left-out employees and regularise EPF non-compliance with minimal penalties....
Corporate Law : The Labour Ministry clarified EPFO reforms, which simplify withdrawals by merging 13 provisions into three, reducing eligibility t...
Corporate Law : Ministry of Labour launches EPF Enrolment Campaign 2025 (Nov 2025 - Apr 2026) to expand social security. Employers can regularize ...
Corporate Law : The EPFO extended the ECR filing deadline for the September 2025 wage month to October 22 due to employer difficulties with the re...
Corporate Law : NCLAT held that provident fund dues assessed during moratorium under Section 14 IBC cannot be admitted in CIRP. The resolution pla...
Corporate Law : Provident fund dues were protected by statute and same were excluded from the liquidation estate of a company under Section 36(4)(...
Corporate Law : NCLAT Delhi held that demand made by the EPFO on the basis of an inspection report made after initiation of moratorium is not enfo...
Corporate Law : NCLAT Delhi held that demand of EPFO raised on the basis of inspection report dated 10.05.2023 and assessment order dated 25.09.20...
Corporate Law : Liquidator vide letter dated 20.11.2021 did not accept the claim principally on the ground of violation of Moratorium. On instruct...
Corporate Law : EPFO permits de-linking of wrongly linked Member IDs even when contributions exist, subject to limits. The circular outlines a str...
Income Tax : The new tax regime introduces Form 121 as a single declaration replacing Forms 15G and 15H. It simplifies TDS exemption compliance...
Corporate Law : The government clarified that employees under the Unified Pension Scheme are eligible for Fixed Medical Allowance. The key takeawa...
Corporate Law : EPFO streamlined the process for transferring pension contributions and nominee payments. The instructions aim to avoid procedural...
Corporate Law : EPFO has approved acceptance of transgender identity certificates for name and gender corrections. The move strengthens inclusivit...
The Employees’ Enrolment Campaign, 2017 shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 2017 and shall cease to operate on the 31st day of March, 2017.
The new Unified Portals has been launched by EPFO for PF members, employers and field offices, and can be accessed through epfindia.gov.in.
Guidelines, approved by Central Board of Trustees, EPF on 19.12.2016, for processing cases of surrender of EPF Exemption granted to Establishments, is as under:-
Functionality of filing of online returns for Exempted Establishments is currently integrated in ECR Portal and said portal will be stopped in current month.
Central Board decided to recommend 8.65% interest to its subscribers for the year 2016-17. Roughly 17 crore subscribers’ accounts will be updated with this interest rate upon acceptance by the Government.
EPFO is in the process of launching next version of ECR in the month of December, 2016. The revised ECR is a part of the Unified Portal which has Online Registration of Establishments (OLRE) and Universal Account Number (UAN) as its other two components.
Sub-committee of Central Board of Trustees, EPF recommended to Govt to consider increase in wage ceiling under EPFO to Rs. 25000 PM from existing 15000 PM.
Government, in principle, decided to enhance the threshold limit of wage for coverage under the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Act, 1948 from existing Rs.15,000/- pm to Rs. 21,000/- pm.
Under implemented Universal Account Number programme, seeding of Aadhaar number in UAN database of EPF members is very low (just 23% up to 25.10.2016).
It has been decided that PF and pension payments to members or EPF Scheme 1952 and EPS 1995 are made on the date of retirement Itself
