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The Employees' Provident Fund is a statutory retirement savings scheme administered by the EPFO. Both employer and employee contribute a percentage of wages each month, and the employer files and remits.
Rates, wage ceilings and eligibility thresholds are set by statute and change. Take the current position from the EPFO or your own advisers rather than from any software vendor, including this page.
Three things: the correct wage base for each employee, contributions calculated on it, and a monthly filing and remittance within the deadline.
The wage base is where most errors originate, because what counts is a legal question rather than a preference, and it interacts with how you have structured salary components.
They are statutory and change. Confirm the current position with the EPFO or your advisers — we deliberately do not publish rates here.
No. It produces the figures and holds the evidence; filing and interpretation stay with you.
From dated salary and joining records, so a partial period is computed rather than estimated.
Half an hour with your own data usually saves reading three of these. The guides will still be here afterwards.