The Centre might consider the Left parties' demand for increasing the Employee Provident Fund rate to 9.5 per cent from the present 8.5 per cent and a decision on the issue is expected after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returns from The Hague.
While the lockdown hit employment in all age groups, it hit the employment of youngsters who are less than 29 years of age much more. The lockdown also hit women more than it has affected men, reveals Mahesh Vyas.
Supporting the striking truck operators, the National Democratic Alliance on Wednesday asked the government to withdraw the proposed service tax on transport booking agents.
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Leaders of major central trade unions on Wednesday made a strong demand before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for restoring the interest rate on Employees Provident Fund to 12 per cent
The deduction will be higher and net take-home pay will fall.
The EPF Board on Saturday failed to clinch the contentious issue of interest rate for the current fiscal for its four crore subscribers and rejected finance ministry's proposal to invest 5 per cent of the EPF money in the equity market.
The Labour and Employment Ministry has requested the Finance Ministry to keep Employee State Insurance and Employee State Insurance schemes out of the ambit of service tax as they are social security schemes.
Once the new rules kick in, you will have less cash-in-hand and may feel tempted to scale back on savings and investments.
Unlike the first two stimulus packages, this time the focus would be on boosting demand.
Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma said on Monday that he will try to maintain the present interest rate of 9.5 per cent on Employees Provident Fund for 2003-04.
The government will decide the interest rate on the country's largest pension fund scheme based on the rate of return on investments in the next financial year, Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma said on Tuesday.
'There is still scope for selective stockpicking.'
Unhappy over several decisions of the government, major trade unions and independent federations will observe a nationwide protest day tomorrow
At present, the EPFO is mandated to invest 20-45 per cent of its incremental funds - of around Rs 1.5 trillion - in debt-related instruments.
The financial fraud, one of the biggest in the state as per records, was being investigated by the different departments of Himachal Pradesh for the past over four years.
The independent institute advising the PM on jobs seems to have missed the point that the challenge is to create net additional jobs, says Mahesh Vyas.
The new form does not require attestation by employer and can be submitted directly to the concerned EPFO offices
Concerned by the continuous downward revision in the monthly net enrolment numbers, the EPFO has begun counting people quitting their previous jobs and joining a new one as an addition to the net payroll. According to experts these people cannot be counted as those who got a new job.
Investments and expenses under section 80 C allows various tax benefits, says Harjot Singh Narula
The government will soon issue guidelines for regulation of OTT (over the top) platforms that will address issues such as sensitive content, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
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Under increasing pressure to cut interest rates on Employees Provident Fund, the labour ministry is expected to meet the Reserve Bank of India brass in a bid to retain the current rate of 9.5 per cent.
Trustees of Retirement fund body EPFO will decide tomorrow on amending the scheme to provide a minimum monthly pension of Rs 1,000, which will immediately benefit about its 28 lakh pensioners.
Private firms will have to maintain a minimum net addition to their workforce each month from October this year to June 2021 to get the Employees' Provident Fund subsidy for the new recruits.
Tax deductions and prioritising their sequence will help you streamline your investments for efficient tax saving.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says a higher interest rate on Employees Provident Fund would depend on whether the Employees Provident Fund Organisation could afford a higher payout.
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Almost 2,000 companies whose private provident and pension funds have invested in non-convertible debentures of IL&FS group firms are staring at the prospect of booking losses to the tune of Rs 9,000 crore or more if the interest income is added.
Finance secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey on Sunday hinted that the government was working on another stimulus package but he refrained from giving a timeframe.
Retirement fund body EPFO on Monday is likely to retain 8.5 per cent interest on PF deposits for its over 5 crore subscribers in 2013-14.
The Left parties on Tuesday lashed out at the UPA government equating it with the previous NDA regime for reducing the EPF interest rate and demanded reconsideration of the decision.
Leading up to the International Women's Day on March 8, this is the first of a four-part series that talks about how women can invest to achieve their long-term financial goals.
If retrenched workers are unable to reskill within a fixed period of time, they will have to return the money given to them by the government. Moreover, they may be asked to pay back an interest on the sum transferred.
Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) and Knowledge processing Outsourcing (KPO) firms are covered by the retirement fund body EPFO, Parliament was informed.
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