KCAS has requested Corporate Affairs Minister Shri. Piyush Goyal that DIR-3 KYC for the year 2018-19 be should be deferred to January 2019 keeping in view of efficiency of transacting and form filing without hindrance of blockage of DIN as it suits for the directors and professionals to plan efficiently for updation. Text of the Representation on Extension/ Deferment and Relaxation of E-Form DIR3 KYC is as follows:-
Date: 9thAugust 2018
To,
Shri. Piyush Vedprakash Goyal
Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance, Railways
Coal and Corporate Affairs
Government of India
North Block
New Delhi – 110001
Hon’ble Sir,
Re: REPRESENTATION ON EXTENSION/ DEFERMENT AND RELAXATION OF E-FORM DIR3 KYC
The Karnataka State Chartered Accountants Association (R) (in short ‘KSCAA’) is an association of Chartered Accountants, registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, in the year 1957. KSCAA is primarily formed for the welfare of Chartered Accountants and represents before various regulatory authorities to resolve the professional problems faced by chartered accountants and business community.
We have written to your good selves many a times populating issues and possible solutions. Herein, we are presenting difficulties and hardship faced by the trade, consultants and directors at large pursuant to introduction of Form DIR-3 KYC and also, relating to adhering the timelines for filing of the forms within 31stAug 2018. Having a wide outreach to Chartered Accountants, tax practitioners, trade bodies etc., and the pressing issues populated by them, KSCAA felt necessary to put forth these issues and seek your redressal mechanism to alleviate the pain caused as well as seek a reasonable extension of due date. We wish to present before you the following facts on the ongoings and public sentiment on the matter under two segments:
A] DIR-3 KYC- Hardships
• DIR-3 form has been in existence since way back and the prospective directors would have already uploaded PAN and address proof like Aadhar and Passport. We understand the necessity of having passport related details of the directors in the wake of the events wherein few high-profile directors having turned fugitive and fled country. This section has been a marginal segment who have resorted to such ill practices.
• While the step is well received amongst the fraternity and the directors, the timing of such introduction is questionable. It is a well-known fact that the directors and companies rely heavily upon the Chartered Accountants and Company Secretaries.
• The sudden introduction of these form, out of the blue, calls for the practitioners to realign their work schedule to accommodate the form filings. It is important to note that the process requires collating of the data and certification of such forms and uploading. Many a times the directors are foreign directors and non-residents, and adhering the timelines is not an easy ask in the peak season for both the fraternities as well as the directors and companies, who are already mired with the compliance and audit obligations.
• The Chartered Accountants usually around this time are preoccupied with Tax audits, Company Audits, new incorporations as well as uploading of ROC annual forms, the due date spillover for income tax filing not helping the cause in any way. Company Secretaries as well are preoccupied with new incorporations, ROC annual forms. In this context, it will be a tough ask on the MCA webpage as well to support such an exercise now within such a short span of time.
• Completing this kind of entire exercise of updating the Directors KYC form through DIR3 KYC pan India basis will be a humongous ask for the companies, directors and professionals, especially non-compliance has penal provisions and bearing upon the filing of routine forms.
• Even the Supreme Court of India has taken a moderate view on linking of Aadhar with bank accounts and mobile phone numbers by extending the 31stMarch deadline indefinitely considering the data privacy concerns. Now, making Aadhar linkage mandatory with DIN while filing KYC is definitely an attempt indirectly, and will go against the law of the land. Further, it creates unnecessary hardships on directors who are in the process of obtaining Aadhar.
• The adherence of timelines assumption is quite far-fetched especially as the load on the MCA webpage would be increased on two counts, one all the stakeholders would be on the web page and two, the OTPs mobile and email and the timelines of such OTPs would keep both the professionals and directors on their toes and extending the working for professionals to time beyond normal hours to beat the traffic.
• Another pertinent issue is levy of late fee of Rs.5,000/- for delayed compliance. It seems extremely harsh especially in cases of prospective directors having DINs which are not linked any company.
• There are as many issues faced by the practising professionals on the LLP formation, closure of LLP etc., which are already discussed and deliberated in the public domain. We invite your kind attention to resolve those issues at the earliest to enable smooth functioning of these.
B] Suggestions:
The due date fixed for filing KYC before 31stAugust seems more than enough to comply but for various factors which are practically acting in concert against such compliance on the part of the directors, companies and practitioners. We have presented here in below our suggestions-
• DIR-3 KYC for the year 2018-19 be should be deferred to January 2019 keeping in view of efficiency of transacting and form filing without hindrance of blockage of DIN as it suits for the directors and professionals to plan efficiently for updation. Presently, professionals are already overburdened with compliances under GST, Income Tax and deadline for completing audit and annual filings under the Companies Act is around the corner.
• This annual KYC exercise should be immediately dispensed with. Instead, it may be integrated with Annual Form AOC-4 which anyways capture similar information of directors. This will help ease compliance, reduce burden on IT infrastructure and avoid duplication of work for professionals and directors.
• Linking KYC exercise with Annual Returns will give enough head room to relook at the levy of late fees of Rs.5,000/-.
This write-up is on the back of representation received from directors, companies, trade bodies, who are in the thick of things and stakeholders who are perturbed with limited compliance time span.
We would be highly thankful if you could extend the due date well in advance, which would be very useful in planning the filings for the directors, companies and practitioners.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
For Karnataka State Chartered Accountants Association (R)
CA. Raghavendra Shetty
President
Download KCAS Representation on Extension/ Deferment and Relaxation of E-Form DIR3 KYC
The extension should.be given.as.the site crashed and there was delay of hrs in.getting OTPs! Email OTP was.not working since morning! Why penalise the ppl atleast those.who tried!!
Regards
Due date must be extended since, the directors have to obtain digital signatures and they have get the documents to be attached to the DIR-3 K Y C form be corrected identically.
NOW, ALL THE DOCUMENTS LIKE PAN, AADHAAR AND PASSPORT ETC., DATA BASE IS NOT SIMILAR. THERE ARE SO MANY MISTAKES IN AADHAAR DATE BASE. IN VIEW OF ALL THESE HARDSHIP FOR PRACTISING PROFESSIONAL AS WELL AS DIRECTORS, THE DATE SHOULD BE EXTENDED UP TO 31.01.2019
Yes it must be Extended at least 60 days
Most appropriate and timely representation before MCA. One point to be added that instead of Form DIR 3KYC it should be a screen based KYC like run form for which no Dsc is required.
Good initiative. But I request you to, request the Govt., “to allow to surrender/cancell DIN number”, in respect of the DIN holder who are presently not directors in any company and also do not want to become director in future, to avoid future KYC-compliance by them every year (specially to avoid hadship to Senior Citizen).
Pl. reply.
1. Extension NEEDED. It has to be considered positively.
2. DSC for each Director is bit too much. It is foolish to spend money for single signing and I feel unnecessary. I think it was decided by Arunji period. As a Chartered Accountant, Piyushji knows the problem and he can rectify like he did during the last GST Meet.
Yes, the representation seems to be good. But the Cas and CSs can commit to take the responsibility of updating these KYC requirements before the last date they want to extend?. By an Ordinary citizen
It has made getting digital signatures mandatory for all directors whether they are ‘simplictor’ or signatories. This is absurd. Why should they spend 700- 800 rs. for signing only once?
Equally absurd is counter certification by a CA/ CS.
MCA like any Govt office wants all the paper work and now even the verification work to be handled by outsiders absolving themselves of any work and responsibilty
Very good initiative… Such evil measures by the Government designed to loot innocent directors and companies should be vehemently opposed
Foreign (US Citizen) Directors of India Orgin living in India on OCI without any US address:
Please include this point. A US Citizen with OCI card who is living in India and is resident of India and DOES NOT have any US address. Since DIN-3-KYC form does not allow India address as India address if you are a US Citizen, it creates a problem and hardship for the director.
It should be relaxed for OCIs resident in India and DIR-3-KYC form should be modified to allow India address as permanent address. This is to cover cases where an OCI does not have a US address anymore and is resident in India. For such cases Aadhaar should be mendatory and should be sufficient proof.