Legal Authorities for India

A legal authority is a government or legal body that is charged with such powers as making laws or levying and collecting staxes.

A legal authority in HCM is used to set up the agencies where remittances are made and payroll information is reported.

For India, legal authorities can be the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Income Tax Department, Employee Provident Fund organization, Employee State Insurance Corporation.

Define Legal Authorities

Here's how you can define the legal authorities:

1. Select Manage Legal Authorities in the implementation project task list.

2. Click Create in the Manage Legal Authorities screen and enter the following details:

   1. Enter the name of the Legal Authority, for example Employee Provident Fund Organization.

   2. Select the appropriate Tax Authority Type. You can select from the following three types:

   1. Collecting

   2. Reporting

   3. Collecting and Reporting.

      The Employee Provident Fund Organization is of type Collecting and Reporting.

3. Click Save and Close.

Create Addresses for a Legal Authority

1. Click Create under Addresses.

2. Choose India as the Country and complete the address details:

3. Add the purpose of the address, under Address Purposes.

4. Select the purpose from the list of values, such as Payment.

   Note: You can create more than one address with different purposes for a egal authority. For example, one address for general correspondence and the other for tax remittances.You can add more than one purpose to each address.

Add Legislative Categories to a Legal Authority

1. Click Create under Legislative Category.

2. Select the Legislative Category from the single select choice list, such as Provident Fund for the Employee Provident Fund Organization:

3. Click Save and Close.

   Note: You can add more than one legislative category to a legal authority.