
PF and Gratuity to SSF: An Employer's Migration Guide
Moving from provident fund and gratuity to Nepal's Social Security Fund changes three payroll lines and one tax band. What it costs, with the numbers worked out.
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Moving from provident fund and gratuity to Nepal's Social Security Fund changes three payroll lines and one tax band. What it costs, with the numbers worked out.

Contributing on gross, running PF alongside SSF, and still charging the 1% social security tax. Six SSF errors with the rupee cost of each one worked out.

Nepal's Social Security Fund splits every contribution four ways. The medical caps, the accident cover, the dependent benefits, and the pension divisor of 160.

Registering a company with Nepal's Social Security Fund, enlisting each employee within three months, and what the Fund can do when neither has happened.

The SSF deposit deadline is now 25 days after the month ends, not 15. What the 2082 amendment changed, and what late payment costs an employer in Nepal.

Every enterprise in Nepal owes a labour audit. Here is Schedule 10 of the Labour Rules 2075 in English, question by question, plus the deadline and the penalties.

Gratuity in Nepal is 8.33% of basic salary deposited every month from day one, not a lump sum computed at exit. What the 2074 Act changed, and why it matters.

A day-by-day plan from signed contract to first compliant payroll in thirty days: the data to collect, the Nepal settings to configure, and the go-live gate.

Your workbook is not the problem. The six fields it never held are. A field-by-field migration guide for Nepali payroll, with the BS date and opening-balance traps.

What outsourcing a Nepali payroll really costs against running it in-house, where the break-even sits, and the one liability outsourcing does not transfer.

The FY 2083/84 budget merged the single and couple tables, raised the 1% band to NPR 1,000,000 and cut the top rate to 29%. The full table, with worked examples.

Twenty-five questions to put to any HRMS vendor in Nepal, grouped by risk, with what a good answer actually contains and the four answers to walk away from.

Compare the 5 best HR and payroll systems in Nepal for 2026 by features, pricing, payroll compliance, attendance, employee records, and business fit.

Nepal's new fiscal year (FY 2083/84) starts on Shrawan 1, 2083 - around 17 July 2026 - and it brings a major income-tax change. Here is the step-by-step…

Compare the best HRMS software in Nepal by pricing, features, attendance, leave, payroll, employee records, reports, and business fit.
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