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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Government has Constituted 11 Benches of NCLT, out of which 2 will be the Principal Bench, which shall be Preside at New Delhi.And the regional bench territory authority is in Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai.
Not a day passes without reference to fictitious accounts opened for diverting funds either for income tax purposes or laundering of funds. Interestingly, many of these accounts carry the solemn auditor’s fairness opinion on the financial statements. It was a meeting of Chartered Accountants, some of them must be leading, judging by the Toyotas, Hondas or BMWs parked at the gate of the conference. I was in attendance there. Sophisticatedly called “Transfer Pricing” one of the speakers made salient features of various ways of assessing the cost involved between two countries experts’ services, expert fees, boarding, lodging etc. and also casually concluded by mentioning some money to be paid to the tax authority to get the cases cleared. Wow! Since long our Chartered Accountants have become commission agents, a remark jokingly or seriously made by a government official
For the beginners who want to incorporate the company, can easily with the help of this article incorporate a private company. Starting from the filing form INC-1 ( reservation of name of the company), Spice form 32, Spice form 33 (MOA), Spice form 34 (AOA). There is a short list of the FORMS required to be filed during incorporation and includes what kind of information required to be filed.
Taking forward the initiative launched by the Government of India to curb the menace of shell companies, money laundering and black money in the country and prevent misuse of corporate structure by shell companies for various illegal purposes, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) have now concluded a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for data exchange, on 6th September, 2017.
Section 8 is a Company incorporated For promoting commerce, art, science, sports, education, research, social welfare, religion, charity, protection of environment or any such other object, provided the profits, if any, or other income is applied for promoting only the objects of the company and In such Company, No dividend is paid to its members. […]
Non applicability of Cash flow statement 1. One Person company as defined under section 2(62) of the 2013 Act 2. It is a Dormant Company as per Section of the Companies Act, 2013 3. It is a Small Company as defined under Section 2(85) of Companies Act, 2013. Here Small Company means a company who’s […]
This article is written in relation to recent MCA notices for the disqualification of directors under section 164 (2) of the Companies Act. Efforts have been made to make reader understand the section 164 along with section 167 of the Act.
Has not filed financial statements or annual returns for any continuous period of three financial years; or Has failed to repay the deposits accepted by it or pay interest thereon or to redeem any debentures on the due date or pay interest due thereon or pay any dividend declared and such failure to pay or redeem continues for one year or more,
It is hereby clarified that the holding company if it is covered by the corporate sector roadmap for implementation of Ind AS, shall follow the corporate sector roadmap and if the company has got payment bank or small finance bank as its subsidiary then subsidiary company shall follow the banking sector roadmap
Ministry of Corporate Affairs has identified 1,06,578 Directors for disqualification under Section 164(2)(a) of the Companies Act, 2013 as on September 12, 2017.
