The Companies Act is a legislation that governs the formation, functioning, and management of companies. Explore the key provisions, compliance requirements, and legal framework under the Companies Act.
Company Law : A practical overview of the legal procedure, timelines, and filings required for buy-back of shares, highlighting compliance essen...
Company Law : A detailed compliance roadmap covering board meetings, audits, ROC filings, and director duties. It explains mandatory corporate g...
CA, CS, CMA : This update compiles key statutory deadlines across multiple laws for May 2026. It highlights filing requirements under income tax...
Company Law : The scheme allows defaulting companies to regularize filings by paying only 10% of late fees. Key takeaway: CCFS-2026 offers a lim...
Finance : This explains how the regulatory framework strictly governs drug quality, manufacturing, and liability. Courts have clarified that...
Company Law : NFRA introduced guidelines to evaluate audit firms’ compliance and quality control systems. The framework emphasizes governance,...
Company Law : ICSI highlights delays in marking defective forms by RoCs under CCFS 2026. It urges MCA to mandate time-bound processing or allow ...
Company Law : The issue is ambiguity in filing authority during liquidation. ICSI has requested clarity to enable liquidators to maintain statut...
Company Law : The initiative addresses inefficiencies in the current filing system and proposes consolidation and automation. It highlights a sh...
Company Law : The MCA introduced a streamlined process for updating registered email IDs of companies and LLPs. The update ensures seamless rece...
Company Law : Legal Analysis and Narrative Brief: Dale and Carrington Investment Pvt. Ltd. and Another v. P.K. Prathapan and Others (Supreme Cou...
Company Law : The case examined whether Tribunal approval was required for extending preference share redemption. It was held that such extensio...
Company Law : The Tribunal held that allegations of siphoning ₹30 lakh were not supported by any evidence tracing funds to the respondent. Mer...
Company Law : The Court held that a separate meeting of sub-class shareholders is not required when identical terms are offered to the entire cl...
Company Law : Supreme Court held that section 66 of the Companies Act, 2013 doesn’t require mandatory obtaining or circulating of formal valua...
Company Law : The appellate authority found that the company complied with private placement provisions by safeguarding funds in a separate acco...
Company Law : The issue involved alleged violation in handling share application money under company law. The ruling held that maintaining funds...
Company Law : The issue involved alleged misuse of share application funds under company law provisions. The authority ruled that compliance was...
Company Law : The issue involved non-filing of Form DIR-12 for appointment of a director. The authority held that failure to comply with Section...
Company Law : The issue involved non-filing of Form DIR-12 to report resignation of a director. The authority held that failure to comply with S...
Specimen of Letter of Appointment as Vat Auditor under Section 61 Of The MVAT Act, 2002, For The Financial Year Ending 31st March 2011. Specimen Letter of Communication with Previous Mavt Auditor.
The much-awaited Companies Bill, 2008 has been introduced in the Lok Sabha. Minister of Corporate Affairs, Shri Prem Chand Gupta introduce the Bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to companies. Two days ago, i.e., on 21.10.2008 Shri Gupta had withdrawn the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2003 which was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on7.5.2003 as the said Bill was not in tune with the present day requirements of corporates in India.
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 […]
Small-and medium-sized companies (SMCs) may soon have a `SARAL’ format for disclosing their financial statements. For ensuring better compliance by all categories of companies with disclosure norms prescribed under the company law, the Ministry for Corporate Affairs (MCA) had asked the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to suggest a simpler format of financial statements especially for SMCs.
Companies Act, 1956 -· A company is required to maintain its books of account and vouchers for a period of 8 years immediately preceding the current year. · A s. 25 company is required to maintain its books of account and vouchers for a period of not less than 4 years. · The books and papers of the Amalgamated/Transferor Company must be not be disposed of without the prior permission of the Central Government
Company registration As per Indian law there needs to be 2 directors to register a company in India. One share to be nominated to some one here to start the company registration that will be returned. Digital signatures certificate application forms of all persons, 2 directors and 1 nominee need to be submitted for company […]
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.
Whether the obligation to register a transfer of shares within a particular period of time was mandatory or directory? Whether the company can cancel or reject the transfer where stamps on transfer form were not defaced or canceled?
in the auditor’s report, the answer to any of the questions referred to in paragraph 4 is unfavourable or qualified, the auditor’s report shall also state the reasons for such unfavourable or qualified answer, as the case may be. Where the auditor is unable to express any opinion in answer to a particular question, his report shall indicate such fact together with the reasons why it is not possible for him to give an answer to such question.
The government has amended the Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, reducing the maximum interest rate from 15% to 14% for company deposits.
