Many Traders and service providers who were registered under State VAT Laws /Service TAX /Excise Law prior to 30.06.2017 have been migrated under GST Law w.e.f 01.07.2017 but they do not wish to continue their registration under GST their turnover being less than threshold limit of Rs. 20Lacs / 10Lacs as the case may be.
Arjuna : Krishna, On 5th of September there will be emersion of lord Ganesha. Whole period of Ganpati went in filing Form 3B & GSTR-1. So what is next?
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has recently revised the Secretarial Standard on Meeting of the Board of Directors (SS 1) and General Meeting (SS 2). The enforce ability of SS 1 and SS 2 comes from the provisions of section 118(10) of the Companies Act, 2013 (Act, 2013). The earlier SS 1 and SS 2 were made effective from 1st July 2015.
If one looks at the trend in economic growth, it is seen that gross value added in the economy has been slowing down with 7.9% in 2015-16, 6.6% in 2016-17 and just 5.6% in Q1 of 2017-18. On the same lines, industrial capacity utilization as well as industrial production has been slipping. Not only this, fiscal deficit and interest rates have also been declining. While all this was happening, demonetization and GST came along which added to disruption of economy.
The Standard is applicable to the Meetings of Board of Directors of all companies incorporated under the Act except One Person Company (OPC) in which there is only one Director on its Board.
Secretarial Standards on Meetings of the Board of Directors (SS-1) and General Meetings (SS-2) were approved by the Central Government under Section 118(10) of the Companies Act, 2013 on 10th April, 2015 and were published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part III -Section 4 on 23rd April, 2015 vide ICSI Notification No. (1) SS of 2015, making them effective from 1st July, 2015.
Following is the text of the revised Secretarial Standard-2 (SS-2) on General Meetings, issued by the Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and approved by the Central Government. Adherence by a company to this Secretarial Standard is mandatory, as per the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.
The following is the text of the Revised Secretarial Standard-1 (SS-1) on Meetings of the Board of Directors, issued by the Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and approved by the Central Government.
The revised SS-1 & SS-2 as approved by the Central Government under Section 118(10) of the Companies Act, 2013 shall be applicable for compliance by all the companies (except the exempted class of companies) w.e.f. 10 October, 2017
The appellant sought to know: a) how many persons exchanged old notes for new notes at Pinto Park branch and also in 3 Wing Branch of Post Office in Air Force area, during the period 08.11.2016 to 25.11.2016 after demonetization; b) total amount of new currency issued for the period 08.11.2016 to 01.12.2016 from both the post offices; c) how many individuals exchanged the currency notes by producing their respective ID cards for the period 08.11.2016 to 01.12.2016 and sought addresses of all such individuals.
