What you can do to get your employer to deposit PF, TDS

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Contributions towards employee provident fund (EPF) is an important component of your salary. Companies are mandated as per law to deduct the contribution from your salary and deposit it with the Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). That, though, need not happen always.

There have been several instances when errant companies deduct this amount from the salaries of their employees but fail to deposit it with the EPFO. Delhi-based Bansal (39), a start-up employee, realized that his PF contribution data was missing while filling his income tax return (ITR). Bansal, who declined to give his full name because of legal issues, raised the matter about the missing PF dues with his then employer but no action was forthcoming.

His mails to the company’s chief executive officer also remained unanswered. Bansal finally reached out to the EPFO and lodged a formal complaint. “The EPFO took immediate action, but I had to complain twice because the company ignored the organization’s first call thinking it was a hoax," he says.

Interestingly, Bansal says, the company cleared the deposits of only those who raised complaints with the EPFO but not other employees. The EPFO is yet to make the company accountable for repeated delays in crediting the PF amount and also the increase in number of employee complaints. It has thus far only addressed complaints of individual employees, says Bansal, who quit the firm shortly after.

Mint has accessed a copy of the complaint that Bansal filed with the EPFO. “The company is still delaying PF deposits of existing employees," says Bansal, adding it also did not deposit with the government the tax deducted at source (TDS) on his income. Bansal, has since moved the labour court against the company