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The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is one of the two main social security organization under the Government of India's Ministry of Labour and Employment and is responsible for regulation and management of provident funds in India, the other being Employees' State Insurance. The EPFO administers the retirement plan for employees ...
The Public Provident Fund (PPF) is a voluntary savings-cum-tax-reduction social security instrument in India, [1] introduced by the National Savings Institute of the Ministry of Finance in 1968. The scheme's main objective is to mobilize small savings for social security during uncertain times by offering an investment with reasonable returns ...
Provident fund is another name for pension fund. Its purpose is to provide employees with lump sum payments at the time of exit from their place of employment. This differs from pension funds, which have elements of both lump sum as well as monthly pension payments. As far as differences between gratuity and provident funds are concerned ...
Employees Provident Fund. Employees Provident Fund or Employees' Provident Fund refer to: Employees' Provident Fund Organisation, in India. Employees Provident Fund (Malaysia) Employees Provident Fund Nepal. Employees' Provident Fund (Sri Lanka)
On 10 December 2018, the Government of India made NPS an entirely tax-free instrument in India where the entire corpus escapes tax at maturity; the 40% annuity also became tax-free. [11] Any individual who is a subscriber of NPS can claim tax benefit for Tier-I account under Sec 80 CCD (1) within the overall ceiling of ₹1.5 lakhs under Sec 80 ...
The entire 12% contribution of the employee goes towards the Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme (EPF), while from the employer's share of 12%, 3.67% goes to the Employees’ Provident Fund and 8.33% goes towards the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS) along with 1% contribution of the government while 0.5% contribution of the employer goes to the ...
Aadhaar (Hindi: आधार, lit.'base, foundation') [ 7 ] is a twelve-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by all residents of India, based on their biometrics and demographic data. [ 8 ] The data is collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a statutory authority established in January 2016 by ...
4. Your risk tolerance. Your comfort level with investment risk is a critical factor in deciding between a lump sum and an annuity. A lump sum exposes you to a lot of risk. Invest the money too ...