Organization : Employees Provident Fund Organization
Facility : Online ECR/ Challan Submission :
Home Page : http://www.epfindia.com/index.html
ECR/ Challan : http://www.epfindia.com/site_en/For_Employers.php?id=sm1_index
Online ECR/ Challan Submission :
EPFO Launches online receipt of Electronic Challan cum Return (ECR) from the Month of April 2012 (March paid in April). Employers are requested to Register their establishments and create their user id and password through this portal.
Related : EPFO Registration Of Establishments : www.statusin.in/1996.html
The registered employers can upload the Electronic Return and the uploaded return data will be displayed through a digitally signed copy in PDF format. It will be available for printing also. Once approved by the employer online Challan will be popped based on uploaded return. The employer may choose to make the payment through internet banking of SBI or take a print out of the Challan and pay at any designated branch of State Bank of India (SBI).
Benefits :
** No paper return to be prepared and submitted to EPFO.
** No need to submit other returns viz Form 5/10/12A,3A and 6A.
** Employers will get the confirmation of payment through SMS instantly.
** The contribution will be credited to the members’ account on monthly basis.
** Employers can view the annual accounts slip for accounting year 2011-12 online.
** For earlier years employers can request for the annual slips through this portal.
Kind Attention Employers
Please update/enter(new employers registering for the first time) your PAN and Name of establishment as per PAN on the portal by using the Update Profile function under your login. The PAN and the name will be verified from the PAN database. Please note that the while filling up the Name as per PAN card, you should keep the PAN card of your establishment handy and fill up the name exactly as on PAN card. PAN of the proprietor can be provided if your establishment is a proprietorship firm and name of the establishment differs from the name in PAN.
Instructions to avail facility :
** Register your establishment at EPFO website
** You will receive system generated temporary username and password on your mobile.
** On first login with the temporary user id and password, create your permanent User Id and new password to avail facilities through the portal.
EPFO :
EPFO is one of the World’s largest Social Security Organisations in terms of clientele and the volume of financial transactions undertaken. At present it maintains more than 15 crore accounts pertaining to its members.
The Employees’ Provident Fund came into existence with the promulgation of the Employees’ Provident Funds Ordinance on the 15th November, 1951. It was replaced by the Employees’ Provident Funds Act, 1952.
The Employees’ Provident Funds Bill was introduced in the Parliament as Bill Number 15 of the year 1952 as a Bill to provide for the institution of provident funds for employees in factories and other establishments.