Income Tax : Form 187 allows appeal against refusal or withdrawal of recognition of provident, gratuity, or superannuation funds within 60 days...
Income Tax : Form 186 application process, eligibility, documents, filing rules, and recognition of provident funds under Income-tax provisions...
Income Tax : Form 185 sets format for maintaining provident fund subscriber accounts, including contributions, interest, and balances, with ann...
Corporate Law : International workers from non-SSA countries cannot withdraw PF on exit. The article explains why age 58 remains the key condition...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 updates Schedule XI to remove outdated contribution and investment limits. The changes bring income-tax rul...
Corporate Law : EPFO introduces easier PF transfer with revamped Form 13 and bulk UAN generation for employers (without immediate Aadhaar)....
Corporate Law : EPFO adds 15 banks for employer contributions, expanding to 32 banks. The move aims to enhance efficiency and reduce transactional...
Corporate Law : EPFO has streamlined the PF transfer process, eliminating employer approval for most claims, aiming to reduce turnaround time and ...
Corporate Law : EPFO is revolutionizing service delivery by introducing auto-mode settlement for education, marriage, and housing claims, reducing...
Corporate Law : EPFO grants a five-month extension to employers for uploading wage details regarding pension on higher wages. Learn about the late...
Income Tax : The issue centered on employees’ PF contributions and statutory due dates post-Checkmate ruling. The ITAT held that detailed ver...
Income Tax : The High Court held that the Tribunal exceeded its limited powers under Section 254(2) by recalling a final order on merits. Once ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal remanded the MAT issue after noting lack of factual verification on whether reserve withdrawals were credited to the ...
Income Tax : SEO Description: The Tribunal held that an appeal cannot be dismissed solely on limitation without examining reasons for delay. Th...
Income Tax : Tribunal relied on Supreme Court’s Checkmate ruling to uphold disallowance of delayed employees’ PF/ESI contribution under Sec...
Corporate Law : EPFO's campaign (Nov 2025–Apr 2026) allows employers to enroll employees missed from 2017 to 2025. Pay only employer's share and...
Corporate Law : EPFO introduces a revamped Electronic Challan-cum-Return (ECR) from September 2025 with system-based validations, revised filing o...
Corporate Law : Starting August 1, 2025, UAN allotment and activation will be mandatory through the UMANG app using Aadhaar-based Face Authenticat...
Corporate Law : EPFO introduces easier PF transfer with revamped Form 13 and bulk UAN generation for employers (without immediate Aadhaar)....
Corporate Law : EPFO introduces UAN allotment and activation through UMANG app using Face Authentication (FAT). Simplifies access to EPFO services...
he EPFO has issued an inter-department clarification on May 23, 2011 indicating that splitting of minimum wages for the purposes of PF contributions is not permissible. This Clarification, which has been issued in view of the lack of a uniform approach followed by the PF authorities in different states, seems to be an attempt by the labour department to settle the ongoing ambiguity with respect to the calculation of provident fund contributions.
Retirement fund body EPFO will not take into account the past performance of previously engaged ICICI Pru, HSBC AMC, SBI and Reliance Capital while finalising the new asset management companies (AMCs) for managing its Rs 3 lakh crore corpus. Since the returns on investment provided by four fund managers was above the bench mark level of 8.52 per cent, past performance as EPFO’s fund manager would not be given any weightage while making fresh appointments, a source privy to the development told PTI.
Delay in deposit of P.F. dues attracts penal damages. Damages are levied at the following FLAT RATES: * For 0 — 2 months delay – @ 5 % p.a. * For 2 — 4 months delay – @10 % p.a. * For 4 — 6 months delay – @ 15 % p.a. * For delay above 6 months – @ 25 % p.a. (subject to a maximum of 100%)
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will soon give the green signal to the payment of 9.5 per cent interest rate on provident fund deposits during 2010-11, a senior government official said on Tuesday. “We can get ratification on 9.5 per cent for th
The Central Provident Fund commissioner Mr. Samirendra Chatterjee, I.A.S.,today launched Web Based Claim enquiry module at a small function organized at the EPFO headquarters. Addressing the officers and Staff of the Head Office he said the computeri
In the last two years, the Government of India has been making series of changes to the provident fund regulations. • After inclusion of international workers (IWs) into the PF net, and also restricting their withdrawals, the Government of
The labour ministry has refused to rethink its decision to pay a higher 9.5% interest rate on employees provident fund corpus this year despite objections raised by the finance ministry. “The decision on interest rate has already been taken,” labour
Trade unions are up in arms against the reported refusal of the finance ministry to approve and notify an interest rate of 9.5 per cent on provident fund (PF) deposits for 2010-11, as decided by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) truste
The retirement fund manager EPFO plans to replace PF account number with unique identification number, a move which will help in speedy transfer of subscribers’ funds in case of job change and allow them to track their accounts online. At present whe
The involvement of as many as 30 judges in the multi-crore provident fund scam has shaken the confidence of people in the judiciary, attorney general G E Vahanvati told the Supreme Court on Thursday while arguing for CBI’s application seeking transfe
