How Can We Correct a Missed PF Contribution for an Employee's March 2012 Salary?

Due to some reason, we paid the salary of one of our employees for March 2012 after depositing the contribution of the PF challan at SBI bank. We paid him the salary after deducting his PF but didn't include him in the PF contribution for March '12.

Query on Paying Unpaid PF Contribution

Now my query is, how can we pay his unpaid contribution for March '12 in April 2012?

You can pay the leftover employees' contributions by generating a challan once again for the particular employee. Alternatively, you can pay the unpaid amount in the next month.

You mean to say that two times the wages are to be taken for PF contribution, i.e., the previous and current month.

Best regards

You have to generate an online supplementary challan for this employee, or you have to pay in the May-12 challan and put the March amount in the arrear column.

Regards,
Mukesh

You should deposit the same amount in the month of April as arrears through online mode by generating the challan.

Regards,
Sunil Kumar

Help Needed: Generating a Minimum Amount Challan

Can anybody confirm and help with the following matter? How can we generate a minimum amount challan, i.e., Rs. 7/-? The contribution by the employee is based on the actual salary, let's say Rs. 10,000/-, while the employer is sharing only up to Rs. 6,500/-. It seems not possible in the E-Return Tool.

You can generate the challan through ECR, mentioning Rs. 6500/- as salary for EPF/EPS. PKS.

There are two provisions available:

1. You can generate a separate PF Challan for the employee for the month of March '12.
2. Otherwise, you can show it in the arrear column in the April '12 salary.

It's better to use the Etool.

Thanks & Regards,
R. Vivek

All our HR friends said is true. Any unpaid contributions can be paid as arrears in the immediate pay cycle. Please make a note of it separately as you would have filed the annual returns by this time, which should be reconciled in the next annual filing.

Thanks.