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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
