Registrar of Companies

ITAT, MUMBAI BENCH `H’ : MUMBAI The Bombay Oil Industries Ltd. v. DCIT Appeal No. ITA NO. 2985/M/2005 Dated : JANUARY 22, 2009 Summary Section 2(22)(e) enacts a deeming fiction which would not be given a wider meaning than what it purports to do; the requisite condition for invoking section 2(22)(e) is that payment must [...] Full Article

The Parliamentary standing committee on Finance, headed by BJP member of parliament Ananth Kumar, has convened a meeting on Wednesday to examine the crisis sparked by the fraud in Satyam Computer Services. This could lead to changes in company law to strengthen regulation and governance. Several government officials, including the finance secretary, the chairman of [...] Full Article

The net is being cast wider with every company that has done a transaction  with Satyam now coming under the scanner of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), which got permission to probe Satyam’s transactions with as many as 250 companies. All the companies will have to divulge information regarding the nature of their business with [...] Full Article

The ministry of corporate affairs ordered investigation into the Satyam scandal by the Serious Frauds Investigation Office (SFIO), a multi-functional investigating agency that has representations from the ministry of home affairs, Enforcement Directorate and the Intelligence department. The government’s decision came on the basis of a report it received from the Registrar of Companies in [...] Full Article

The government may amend an accounting norm that gives certain exemptions to companies from consolidating the balance sheets of subsidiaries with that of the parent under certain circumstances. The idea is to ensure that companies do not take undue advantage of the exemption and give an unrealistic picture of their financial health. Making it compulsory to consolidate the financial statements of all subsidiaries with that of the parent will give the cumulative effect of.. Full Article

In a bid to check the rise in court cases against corporate houses for company law violations, the government is set to give more powers to its officials to deal with such offenses out of court. The framework proposed in the new company law envisages that company disputes should not be dragged to the court. Full Article

The scheme came with in-built safeguards to ensure that unscrupulous promoters/directors /managers did not escape their liabilities. Process has been completed for striking off names of 24,884 small, non-functioning or defunct companies from the field offices of the Ministry for Corporate Affairs (MCA). The Registrar of Companies (RoCs) had received applications from 26,590 such companies [...] Full Article

The Companies Act, 1956 requires every company registered under the Act to file various returns and forms with the Registrar of Companies (RoC), from time to time.Irrespective of the size and type of a company — private or public, listed or unlisted, profit- or loss-making — it has to file a minimum of two returns every year with the RoC — annual accounts and annual return. Full Article