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.
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As the number of Coronavirus cases are continuously growing in India which forced the Indian Government to announce a ‘Lockdown’ for 21 days starting from 00:00 Hours of March 25, 2020. This Lockdown will definitely disrupt the businesses activities of all sectors as the Nation comes to pause. By understanding the disruption of the business […]
The Ministry of Corporate Affair issued the circular dated 24th March, 2020, having General Circular No. 11/2020 relaxing any additional payment payable by the company on late filing of e-Forms to ROC to provide relaxation to the corporate world causing devastating circumstances created by COVID-19 causing a global pandemic. MCA in furtherance of the above […]
How to file Company’s return without paying late fees- Company Fresh Start Scheme 2020 (CFSS 2020)? There have been no better time for the defaulting companies than this. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs decided to give all the defaulting companies another chance to improve their filing-related defaults irrespective of the duration. Further, as per the […]
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) taking into cognizance the issue faced by Corporates due to COVID-19 has issued several notifications & circulars in order to grant immunities & reduce the compliance cum financial burden on the Corporates. One of the recent initiatives taken by MCA is the introduction of COMPANIES FRESH START SCHEME, 2020 […]
Reduction of share capital is often resorted to by companies for internal restructuring or altering their capital structure; it entails reduction of issued, subscribed and paid up share capital (either equity shares or preference shares or both) of a company.
In order to facilitate the companies registered in India to make a fresh start, a one-time opportunity is given to all defaulting companies and to enable them to file belated returns, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has introduced the Companies Fresh Start Scheme, 2020 vide General Circular No. 12/2020 dated March 30, 2020. Sl. No. […]
What is this Company Fresh Start Scheme – 2020 (CFSS-2020) The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has provided an opportunity to corporates to make a “Fresh Start” in their life by issuing a General Circular No. 12/2020 dated 30th March 2020. MCA introduced a scheme called ‘COMPANIES FRESH START SCHEME 2020 (CFSS-2020)’. The salient features of this scheme […]
On 23rd March 2020, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs declared donations by the companies to Prime Minister’s emergency fund set up to fight against the Coronavirus pandemic will qualify as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure.
The Companies Act, 2013 requires all Companies to make annual statutory compliance by filing the Annual Return and Financial Statements. Apart from this, various other documents such as eForm DIR-12 for appointment/resignation of Director, eForm PAS-3 for allotment of shares, eForm DIR-3 KYC or web based KYC, Active Form (eForm INC-22A) is required to be […]
The MCA vide its circular dated 30th March 2020 has issued Companies Fresh Start Scheme, 2020 to promote defaulting companies to make a fresh start on a clean slate and waive the additional fee as charged under section 403 of Companies Act, 2013 which is applicable on certain forms to be filed with MCA. –Companies Fresh Start Scheme, 2020 will […]
