Income Tax : The issue is understanding complex NPS rules, tax benefits, and recent updates. The framework clarifies withdrawal flexibility, ta...
Corporate Law : The case highlights NPS as one of the few deductions available in the new tax regime. Employer contributions remain fully deductib...
Income Tax : Even under the new tax regime, employer contributions to NPS remain deductible under Section 80CCD(2). This reduces taxable income...
Corporate Law : The 2025 amendments scrap key lock-ins and vesting conditions, allowing earlier and more flexible exits. The ruling links withdraw...
Income Tax : Learn about the tax treatment of key retirement benefits in India, including gratuity, pension, leave encashment, provident fund, ...
Corporate Law : Draft rules seek to bring petrol, gas, and hydrogen dispensers under approved testing centres. The key takeaway is enhanced regula...
Corporate Law : The Finance Ministry approved the extension of LC75 and Balanced Life Cycle (BLC) investment options to Central Government NPS/UPS...
Corporate Law : PFRDA consults on adopting dual valuation (Accrual/MTM) for Government Securities in NPS/APY schemes to stabilize NAV, reduce inte...
Finance : PFRDA rationalizes NPS Auto Choice and Life Cycle Fund names to align with actual equity and risk profiles. Funds are now Common S...
Corporate Law : PFRDA releases an exposure draft proposing amendments to NPS regulations, focusing on increased flexibility for exits, withdrawals...
Corporate Law : The authority clarified AMC alignment between Tier I and Tier II accounts to ensure uniformity. It also exempted low-balance accou...
Corporate Law : The issue involved enhancing the existing NPS Swasthya scheme. The circular introduces PoC 2 with revised features to improve flex...
Corporate Law : Revised guidelines require Points of Presence to compensate subscribers for service delays or operational failures without waiting...
Corporate Law : PFRDA clarified that the NPS Vatsalya Scheme Guidelines 2025 take effect from 23 February 2026. The circular also directs stakehol...
Corporate Law : The regulator notified comprehensive 2025 guidelines to govern NPS Vatsalya, detailing eligibility, contributions, investments, an...
National Pension System (NPS) is still not very popular amongst individual assessees for the simple reason that people are not familiar with the advantages of NPS. It is one of the best way of saving, steady returns & Income Tax benefits.
Subscribers can now create Virtual ID for Direct Remittance (D-Remit) through NPS Mobile App instead of being redirected to eNPS portal. This is in addition to the option available on eNPS portal for creation of Virtual ID.
Introduction- The pleasure of receiving money may get reduced when a substantial part of money is paid by way of taxes. To maintain the pleasure, the money could better be invested in some tax saving schemes which will not only save taxes but will also provide returns. Let us take a look at some of […]
NPS Subscribers are empowered with the comprehensive end to end digitally enabled solutions to fulfill their evolving needs and allow them for performing various facets of NPS viz On-boarding, maintenance, contribution deposit, partial withdrawal and exit with greater ease and convenience. PFRDA had already enabled online paperless exit process of Non Govt Sector Subscribers.
PFRDA is pleased to extend the online and paperless process of exit to the Subscribers of Government Sector as an option in addition to the existing physical mode of exit. The online exit would be integrated with Instant Bank Account Verification as per the existing guidelines as part of enhanced due diligence in the interest of Subscribers. The facility would also be available to the employees of Autonomous Bodies of Central/State Government who are covered in NPS.
The scheme was initiated under the Employee’s Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Act, 1952, for the benefit of employee after his retirement. The scheme was a collection of fund by the employer and employee. FEATURE OF THE SCHEME: ♦ Under this scheme, the employer and employee both contributes the 12% of the employee’s salary and dearness […]
(1) These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2021. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
The exit/withdrawal norms of the Subscribers are defined by PFRDA (Exits and Withdrawals under NPS) Regulations, 2015 and its amendments. As per regulatory mandate, there are certain predefined conditions which fulfill the norms of exit viz premature exit, normal exit and exit due to unfortunate death of the Subscriber.
The Central Record Keeping Agencies (CRAs) appointed by PFRDA develop system level functionalities as per the evolving needs of NPS stakeholders in accordance with Section 21 of PFRDA Act 2013.
It has been decided to increase the entry age of NPS in the interest of Subscribers and benefit them with the opportunity of creating a long term sustainable pension wealth. The existing age of entry which is 18-65 years has been revised to 18-70 years.
