Income Tax : Under the earlier law, even a one-day delay in depositing employee contributions resulted in permanent tax disallowance. The new r...
CA, CS, CMA : This update compiles key statutory deadlines across multiple laws for May 2026. It highlights filing requirements under income tax...
Income Tax : The Central Government, in the Union Budget 2026, has proposed an important amendment concerning employee welfare funds. The objec...
Income Tax : The amendment replaces the fund-specific due date with the return-filing deadline for claiming deductions. Employers gain greater ...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court upholds disallowance of delayed PF/ESI contributions under Section 143(1), but permits deductions when the due da...
Corporate Law : ESIC launched a one-time Amnesty Scheme (Oct 2025-Sept 2026) to settle pending court cases on ESI contribution, coverage, and dama...
Corporate Law : ESIC launches the Amnesty Scheme 2025 (Oct 2025-Sep 2026) to settle ESI court cases, withdrawal of prosecution, and reduce litigat...
Company Law : Explore the challenges faced by newly incorporated companies regarding mandatory ESI and EPF registrations in India, with proposed...
Corporate Law : As we all know that registration on Sham Suvidha Portal for new Companies was discontinued w.e.f. 15.02.2020 and thereafter, Compa...
Corporate Law : Through the coordinated efforts of Government, Private Institutions, Civil Society, NGOs and Private Citizens overcame the health ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal examined disallowance made for delayed employee contributions under Section 143(1). It held that debatable issues can...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the original assessment was not erroneous or prejudicial except for TDS verification and PF/ESI disallowanc...
Income Tax : ITAT confirmed Section 263 revision after finding that the AO wrongly allowed delayed PF/ESI contributions despite binding Supreme...
Income Tax : The assessee’s plea that delayed PF/ESI deduction was a debatable issue was rejected because Checkmate had settled the law retro...
Income Tax : The Tribunal confirmed that employees’ contributions to EPF and ESIC deposited after the statutory due dates are disallowable un...
Corporate Law : The Government of India has implemented the Code on Social Security, 2020 with nationwide effect from November 21, 2025, consolida...
Corporate Law : ESIC launches SPREE, a scheme from July 1 to Dec 31, 2025, for employers and employees to register under the ESI Act without retro...
Corporate Law : ESIC's SPREE 2025 scheme offers a time-bound opportunity for employers to register their businesses and employees without past pen...
Corporate Law : ESIC proposes new rules for medical benefits to retired employees and spouses, open to public suggestions for 30 days from notific...
Corporate Law : Explore the latest amendment to the Employees' State Insurance Rules 1950, raising the threshold from INR 5 to 25 crores. Get insi...
Provided that an Insured Women shall be eligible to claim maternity benefit for a confinement occurring or expected to occur in the benefit period January 2021-June 2021 if contributions in respect of her were payable for not less than 35 days in the immediately preceding two consecutive contribution periods from October, 2019 to March, 2020 and April, 2020- to September, 2020.
Murlidhar Hassani Vs DCIT (ITAT Jaipur) In the instant case, admittedly and undisputedly, the employees’ contribution to ESI and PF collected by the assessee from its employees have been deposited well before the due date of filing of return of income u/s 139(1) of the Act. Further, the ld D/R has referred to the explanation […]
Akbar Mohammad Vs ACIT (ITAT Jodhpur) In the present cases, it is not in dispute that the assessee deposited the contribution of PF & ESI belatedly in terms of section 36(1)(va) of the Act. However, the said deposits were made prior to filing of return of income u/s 139(1) of the Act. Of course, it […]
Dr. B. Lal Clinical Laboratory Private Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Jaipur) In the instant case, admittedly and undisputedly, the employees’ contribution to ESI and PF collected by the assessee from its employees have been deposited well before the due date of filing of return of income u/s 139(1) of the Act. Further, the ld D/R […]
The deceased Insured Person must have been in employment on the date of diagnosis of COVID19 disease and contributions for at least 35 days should have been paid or payable in respect of him / her during a period of maximum one year immediately preceding the diagnosis of COVID-19 disease resulting in death.
Employees’ State Insurance Corporation Vs Union of India (Supreme Court of India) Facts- The ESIC has filed the present appeal against the judgement of Division Bench which rejected the petition filed against the promotion of the contesting respondent to the post of ‘Associate Professor’ under the Dynamic Assured Career Progression Scheme (DACP Scheme). Fact of […]
Adama Solution P. Ltd. Vs ADIT (ITAT Delhi) ITAT allowed the issue raised by the assessee holding that the addition/disallowance made by the learned assessing officer of late deposit of employees contribution to the provident fund and ESI, as it is deposited before the due date of the filing of the return of an income […]
S.V. Engineering Constructions India (P) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Visakhapatnam) It is settled issue that no debatable issues are permitted to be made adjustments u/s 143(1) of the Act. In the instant case, what was added in the intimation u/s 143(1) was the employees contribution to PF and ESI. Hon’ble Madras High Court in the […]
Chodavaram Vs Asst. Director of Income Tax (ITAT Visakhapatnam) We are of the considered view that as in the instant case, the employees contribution qua ESI & PF for the Asst. Year: 2019-20 has been deposited before the due date of furnishing the return of income u/sec. 139(1) of the Act and therefore cannot be […]
Ridhi Sidhi Mills (India) Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Jodhpur) In the present cases, it is not in dispute that the assessees deposited the contribution of PF & ESI belated in terms of section 36(1)(va) of the Act, however, the said deposits were made prior to filing of return of income u/s 139(1) of the […]
