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  'My pressure worked': Rahul seeks credit for EPF tax rollback

  National | March 08, 2016 18:54 IST

  New Delhi: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday sought credit for the government's rollback of proposed move to tax EPF withdrawals. In a series of tweets, Gandhi said the government was “forced” to listen to

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  FM withdraws EPF tax proposal announced in Budget 2016

  March 08, 2016 14:51 IST

  New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today announced the  rollback of his budgetary proposal that allowed a part of the Employees Provident Fund withdrawal to be be taxed. Jaitley made the statement in the parliament

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  FICCI lauds decision to review EPF tax proposals

  March 06, 2016 19:23 IST

  New Delhi: Expressing its dismay over the union budget 2016-17 proposal to tax withdrawals from the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) contributions, industry chamber FICCI today said it was, nevertheless, encouraged by the reports that Finance

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  Rahul Gandhi demands rollback of proposed tax on EPF withdrawals

  National | March 03, 2016 14:41 IST

  New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today demanded the rollback of government's proposal to tax employee provident fund withdrawals."People work all their lives, and EPF is the safety net for them, and to destroy

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  Facing flak, government says will reconsider tax on EPF withdrawals

  March 02, 2016 8:04 IST

  New Delhi: Under all-round attack following its Budget proposal to tax 60 per cent of withdrawals from provident fund and a ceiling on employers contribution, the government today promised to consider demands for a rollback of

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  PPF withdrawal out of tax ambit ; only interest to be taxed in EPF: Govt

  March 01, 2016 13:38 IST

  New Delhi: Seeking to dispel fears of the salaried class, the government today clarified the popular public provident fund (PPF) scheme will continue to stay out of the tax ambit and that tax will be

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  Opposition slams proposal to tax Provident tax, unions warn stir

  India | March 01, 2016 19:12 IST

  New Delhi: Modi government's decision to impose tax at the time of withdrawal on 60 per cent of the contributions made after April 1, 2016, to provident fund and other schemes,has evoked strong opposition from

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  Cost is in favour of exchange traded funds: SEBI

  October 26, 2015 17:13 IST

  Mumbai: One of the positive points in favour of exchange traded funds (ETF) is their low cost of trading and time has come when along with Employee Provident Funds, other funds can look at ETFs, SEBI

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  More than Rs 27000 crores of EPF unclaimed, know how to claim yours

  August 29, 2015 22:13 IST

  Employees contribute to Provident Fund for post retirement benefits. But when employees change jobs, some of them open a new EPF account and do not operate their old EPF account. As a result, that account

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  Rs 27,000 crore lying unclaimed in EPF: Labour Minister

  May 30, 2015 20:40 IST

  Vijaywada:  An amount of Rs 27,000 crore is lying as unclaimed in the Employee Provident Fund, Union minister of state for Labour, Bandaru Dattatreya said here today."A sum of RS 27,000 crore is lying as

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  Know all about opening PPF account

  May 28, 2015 14:45 IST

  New Delhi:  When we hear of PPF, we think of our office PF account where some money is reduced from our salary and transferred to our account. But you should know that apart from the

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  Govt planning to shed off employee's contribution to EPF, employer's share to remain

  March 13, 2015 9:56 IST

  New Delhi: The law governing Employees Provident Fund (EPF) is soon to see drastic changes with government planning to discontinue mandatory 12% contribution by employees while retaining the outgo for employers, however, the arrangement will

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  Firms with 10 or more employees may come under EPF Act

  July 23, 2014 17:34 IST

  New Delhi: The government is considering a proposal to reduce threshold limit for coverage of firms under the EPF Act to 10 persons.At present, all those firms employing 20 or more workers are covered by

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  EPF interest rate will be raised to 8.6 pc this year, says Kharge

  India | April 26, 2012 23:19 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 26: Interest rate on employees' provident fund will be increased to 8.6 per cent for the current fiscal, a move which will benefit around five crore subscribers.“The rates were brought down due

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  EPF Rate Cut From 9.5 Per Cent To 8.25 Per Cent For 2011-12

  March 15, 2012 23:10 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 15: Government today slashed interest rate on deposits in Employees Provident Fund from 9.5 per cent to 8.25 per cent for 2011-12 affecting over 4.7 crore subscribers.This cut was proposed by the