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Holders of about 3 crore inoperative provident fund accounts may not get any interest on their deposits from the next fiscal if the recommendations of the EPFO’s advisory body, Finance and Investment Committee (FIC), are approved.
A circular dated 5 May 2010 is issued by Employee Provident Fund Organization (Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt of India) in relation to implementation to EPFiGMS. This circular is issued by the Central Provident Fund Commissioner to Additional / Regional Provident Fund Commissioners and related officers.
A budgetary estimate of Rs. 96 crore has been approved by the Central Board of Trustees, Employees’ Provident Fund (CBT, EPF) for the implementation of the first phase of the ‘Modernization Project’ of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) being implemented in collaboration with National Informatics Centre (NIC).
Employees Provident Fund Organisation Regional Office, Bandra has introduced e-payment to credit the benefits payable to members accounts immediately after authorization of claims leading to higher customer satisfaction and substantial reduction in grievances. In order to avail this facility the Provident Fund beneficiaries are required to submit attested copy of the first page of their pass book along with their claim form. In case the first page of passbook does not indicate the IFS code, a cancelled blank cheque should also be enclosed.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation is switching to an electronic payment system, which will allow it to credit the PF amount to the members’ bank accounts within two days of claim authorisation. EPFO is becoming more customer-friendly these days as it is trying to stave off competition from the new pension scheme, or NPS.
The finance and labour ministries have locked horns over the issue of bringing retirement fund manager EPFO under the service tax net. The Central Board of Excise and Customs has slapped a notice for recovery of service tax on Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) but the Labour Ministry has opposed it saying the organisation was not doing any commercial activity.
It’s not clear if dipping tax collections have anything to do with it, but the country’s largest retirement fund just got a shocker from the revenue authorities. The Central Board of Excise & Customs has slapped a penalty notice on the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) for evading service tax, arguing that it provides employers fund management services. Fund management falls under the definition of banking & financial services, which are taxable.
Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Union of India and others v Ogale glass Works 1971 AIR 2577 held that the award of industrial tribunal cannot stand in the way of enforcing the statutory provision cast on the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner under the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.
Short title, extent and application.- (1) This Act may be called the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) Subject to the provisions contained in section 16, it applies – (a) to every establishment which is a factory engaged in any industry specified in Schedule I and in which twenty or more persons are employed and
