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 : Learn which companies must file MGT-7 or MGT-7A, when MGT-8 certification is mandatory, and how the Companies (Management and Admi...
CA, CS, CMA : A comprehensive guide covering 175 legal compliances for July 2026 under FEMA, Income Tax, GST, SEBI, Companies Act, Labour Laws, ...
Company Law : Learn how the Companies Act, 2013 regulates managerial remuneration through profit-linked limits, approval requirements, and gover...
Company Law : The article explains that SBI and PNB are statutory bodies created under separate Acts and are therefore not governed by the Compa...
Company Law : The article examines the Hamlin Trust ruling, where the NCLAT held that CFO appointments must satisfy Section 203 eligibility requ...
Company Law : ICSI has urged the MCA to ensure eligible companies comply with Section 203 by appointing Whole-time Company Secretaries. The repr...
Corporate Law : NSO has launched the Annual Survey of Incorporated Services Sector Enterprises (ASISSE) to collect comprehensive economic and oper...
Company Law : ICSI has requested the MCA to grant compliance relaxations following technical disruptions caused by the Data Centre fire. The pro...
Company Law : The MCA has widened CSR eligibility by recognizing subscriptions to Zero Coupon Zero Principal Instruments as a valid CSR activity...
Company Law : Provisional list of audit firms of listed companies yet to file NFRA-2 for 2023-24. Filing deadline was 30.11.2025; fines apply fo...
Company Law : Madhya Pradesh HC dismissed a winding up petition, holding that a bona fide dispute over liability required adjudication before th...
Company Law : The NCLAT held that CFO nominees must satisfy the eligibility requirements under Section 203 of the Companies Act. It set aside th...
Company Law : Where a composite scheme of arrangement satisfies the procedural requirements of sections 230 to 232 of the Companies Act, 2013 an...
Company Law : NCLT Mumbai compounded the offence for failure to hold the AGM within the time prescribed under Section 96 of the Companies Act, 2...
Company Law : The NCLT Ahmedabad refused to condone a 4,215-day delay in filing an appeal for restoration of a struck-off company. The Tribunal ...
Company Law : MCA extends the Companies Compliance Facilitation Scheme, 2026 up to 31 August 2026 due to data center restoration following the...
Company Law : MCA has allowed companies to file Form DPT-3 for FY 2025-26 without additional fees until 31 July 2026 due to disruptions caused b...
Company Law : MCA notifies the New Development Bank under Section 2(11)(ii) of the Companies Act, 2013, specifying it as a body corporate for th...
Company Law : ROC Mumbai penalized a director after Form AOC-4 contained an incorrect AGM due date. The order emphasizes that directors are resp...
Company Law : ROC Mumbai imposed a penalty after finding that an individual held two Director Identification Numbers in violation of Section 155...
The Companies Act, 2013 (Act) allows Companies to convert itself into any other Companies at any time subject to the fulfilment of conditions prescribed in the Act and rules thereunder. Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) by its notification dated 18th December 2018 has introduced new Rule 41 in the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014 specifying the […]
Company Law Committee was constituted on 18th September 2019 in the backdrop of the government striving hard in its endeavour to facilitate ease of living for corporates in India, and for making some critical changes for the decriminalization of certain offences in furtherance of a similar step taken through the Companies (Amendment) Act 2019
MCA allow companies to conduct their EGMs through VC or OAVM or transact items through postal ballot upto 30th September, 2020.
(SS-1) on Meetings of Board of Directors The Board may, by a Resolution passed at a Meeting, delegate certain powers to any Committee of Directors, the Managing Director, the Manager or any other principal officer of the company or in the case of a branch office of the company, the principal officer of the branch office, on such conditions as it may specify.
As per the Companies Act, 2013 and related rules and provisions, it is mandatory for every company to appoint an auditor from incorporation to their going out of business. Auditor is eligible person, who audits the financial part and working of company. Hence, every company needs to appoint auditor. Notably there are many times, when […]
As per Section 441 of the Companies Act, 2013, not all the Offences can be compounded. Only the following offences can be compounding under section 441(1) of the Act by certain authorities
Conduction of Annual General Meeting (AGM) through Video Conferencing (VC) or Other Audio Visual Means (OAVM) The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) vide its General Circular No 14/2020 issued earlier, on April 08, 2020, allowed the Companies to hold their Extra-Ordinary General Meetings (EGM) through Video Conferencing (VC) or Other Audio Visual Means (OAVM). Later on May […]
Nominee shareholder: 1. Means a person whose name is entered in the registered of member, who hold share in behalf of actual owner of share. 2. Nominee shareholder has to make declaration, 3. Nominee can be Natural Person or a Legal Person. Main Purpose: 1. To fulfill the minimum shareholders requirement as per the provisions […]
There has been a lot of confusion on taxability of director’s remuneration from companies in which they are directors in different forms. The confusion or doubts got mounted in the wake of recent conflicting advance rulings. CBIC has now come out with a detailed Circular No. 140/10/2020-GST dated 10.06.2020 which clarifies issues relating to taxability […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has throttled the world economy in the last few months, putting a virtual halt to almost all economic activities. Countries world over, including India, resorted to harsh extraordinary measures of complete lockdown to flatten the Coronavirus Curve. However, India INC, notwithstanding the lockdown, has been cohesively trudging the recovery path with its fleet of corporate professionals.
