Income Tax : The Finance Bill 2025 extends the investment deadline for SWFs and PFs to March 2030, ensuring continued exemptions on long-term c...
Corporate Law : NPS Vatsalya Scheme offers long-term financial planning for children. Parents can invest in a pension fund until the child turns 1...
Corporate Law : Overview of the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) for government employees, comparing it with the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and National...
Income Tax : Treatment of income from different sources Each income has different source of earning and so the provisions for its taxability. I...
Corporate Law : Learn how to calculate EPS pension, eligibility criteria, and the different types of pensions available under the Employee Pension...
Corporate Law : The National Pension System (NPS) offers flexible, low-cost pension options with digital accessibility, aiming to expand coverage ...
Corporate Law : Stakeholders and public can provide feedback on draft Unified Pension Scheme Regulations, 2025, under NPS for Central Government e...
Corporate Law : Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will launch the NPS Vatsalya scheme on September 18, 2024, to promote early financial planning...
Corporate Law : Discover the 'Vatsalya' pension scheme for minors launched by the Ministry of Finance. Learn about contributions, conversion optio...
Corporate Law : Explore vital role of pensions in securing financial stability during retirement, as discussed by PFRDA Chairperson. Learn about N...
Corporate Law : Patna HC rules on joint option under EPF and Pension Scheme for higher pensions, citing Supreme Court precedents, impacting retire...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that PFRDA Act, 2013 doesn’t prescribed any due date for payment of employee’s contribution to National Pe...
Income Tax : In the case of G.K. Reddy vs. DCIT, Madras High Court has directed the Income Tax Department to lift the attachment of a pension a...
Income Tax : Read the full text of the judgment by Punjab and Haryana High Court granting a refund of income tax on exempted disability pension...
Corporate Law : Patna High Court held that petitioner is duly entitled for at least 5% Simple interest on delayed payment of pension and gratuity....
Corporate Law : PFRDA mandates Aadhaar-based authentication for NPS transactions in government offices, enhancing security with two-factor login f...
Finance : Unified Pension Scheme under NPS offers assured payouts to Central Government employees, effective April 1, 2025, with flexible co...
Finance : Department of Posts clarifies guidelines for considering married daughters for compassionate appointments, based on dependency and...
Corporate Law : Govt clarifies that a daughter’s name cannot be deleted from a pensioner’s family record, with eligibility for family pension ...
Corporate Law : The Department of Pension announces a Dearness Relief hike to 53% for Central Govt pensioners and family pensioners, effective Jul...
Budget 2020: Rationalization of tax treatment of employer’s contribution to recognized provident funds (RPFs), superannuation funds and national pension scheme (NPS). Under the existing provisions of the Act, the contribution by the employer to the account of an employee in a recognized provident fund exceeding twelve per cent. of salary is taxable. Further, the amount […]
1. These regulations may be called the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (Pension Fund) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2020. 2. These shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official gazette.
People working in government services or those working with government departments get pensions after retirement from their services additionally people who have contributed towards Employee Provident Fund (EPF) also get pension under Employee Pension Scheme (EPS), 1995. Even after the death of the employee their family members are also entitled to get the pension from the employer as well as under EPS.
To discuss the tax treatment of the pension received, comprehensively, the employees have been divided in two types, government and non-government. Even the pension received can be of two types, commuted and uncommuted.
Article discusses Tax Treatment of Various retirement benefits i.e Gratuity, Leave Encasement, Commuted Pension, Uncommuted Pension, Statutory Provident Fund, Recognised Provident Fund and Unrecognised Provident Fund.
Section 80C replaced the existing Section 88 with more or less the same investment mix available in Section 88. The new section 80C has become effective w.e.f. 1st April, 2006. Even the section 80CCC on pension scheme contributions was merged with the above 80C. However, this new section has allowed a major change in the method of providing the tax benefit. Section 80C of the Income Tax Act allows certain investments and expenditure to be tax-exempt.
(i) Under the existing provisions of section 10 of the Act, any payment from the NPS Trust to an assessee on closure of his account or on his opting out of the pension scheme, to the extent it does not exceed forty per cent of the total amount payable to him at the time of […]
1. Some veterans have highlighted the case of Maj Gen Ian Cardozo (Retired) to express resentment against the recent directive to not allow tax exemption for disability pension. 2. Disability is granted to personnel who are disabled in combat or, during peace time and their disability is attributable to service conditions. The latter have some […]
Exemption of service element and disability element of disability pension granted to disabled personnel of armed forces who have been invalided on account of disability attributable to or aggravated by such service. Circular No. 13/2019-Income Tax F. No. 173/250/2019-ITA-1 Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes North Block, […]
What is National Pension Scheme (NPS)? National Pension Scheme (NPS) was initially launched in January 2004 for government employees but then in 2009, it was made available to every citizen of India whether resident or non-resident aged between 18-60 years. NPS allows you to contribute regularly in a pension account during their working life. On […]
