Corporate Law : India transformed CSR into a statutory obligation under Section 135. This shift raises key questions on its role in governance and...
Company Law : A comprehensive guide to applicability, 2% spending rule, governance structure, compliance requirements, and penalties under Secti...
Company Law : Understand CSR obligations under Section 135, including eligibility, expenditure, and reporting. Key takeaway: Proper CSR complian...
Company Law : Explains the strict consequences for failing to meet CSR spending and transfer obligations under Section 135. Highlights how penal...
Company Law : Section 135 mandates companies above certain thresholds to spend 2% of profits on social initiatives, establish CSR committees, an...
Company Law : The issue concerns the inability to update trust details in CSR-1 registration records. It was highlighted that outdated informati...
Company Law : Public and private companies in Bihar increasingly invest in CSR, with key districts receiving substantial social development fund...
Company Law : The Ministry of Corporate Affairs confirms that CSR expenditure data for the last five years is publicly available on its CSR port...
Company Law : Government penalized companies for CSR non-compliance under the Companies Act. Details of penalties, CSR spending, and fund transf...
Company Law : Overview of proposed amendments in the Companies Act, 2013, CSR monitoring framework, and steps to ensure compliance and prevent m...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that CSR expenditure disallowed as business expenditure under Section 37(1) can still qualify for deduction under Se...
Income Tax : The issue was whether CSR expenditure disallowed under Section 37(1) can still qualify under Section 80G. The Tribunal held that b...
Income Tax : The Court held that reassessment based solely on an audit objection is invalid as it constitutes a change of opinion. It emphasize...
Income Tax : ITAT held that CSR contributions can qualify for deduction under Section 80G if conditions are met. The ruling clarifies that ther...
Income Tax : ITAT held that revision under Section 263 cannot be invoked when the Assessing Officer has already examined the issue. The ruling ...
Company Law : ROC Haryana ruled that non-transfer of unspent CSR amount within six months from the close of the financial year constituted a vio...
Company Law : ROC Kolkata penalized a company and its directors for delayed transfer of unspent CSR funds to the Swachh Bharat Kosh. The order h...
Company Law : The authority penalized the company for failing to transfer unspent CSR funds within the statutory deadline. It held that delayed ...
Company Law : The authority penalized the managing director for wrongly declaring CSR as not applicable in financial filings. It held that signa...
Company Law : The adjudicating authority penalised a company for not spending mandatory CSR funds and failing to transfer unspent amounts on tim...
Wherever the company undertakes the CSR activity through a third party / NGO, it is advised that all such companies should obtain an Independent Practitioner’s Report on Utilisation of such CSR Funds from the auditor / CA in practice of the third party / NGO, to whom the funds are given by the Company for implementing CSR activity.
MCA has notified vide Notification No. G.S.R. 313(E) 26/05/2020 that contribution to ‘Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund)’ will fall under CSR Activities wef 28th March 2020. Article analyses CSR Provisions and related amendments in view of Pandemic Covid-19. (i) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) The corporate beyond making […]
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) UNDER SECTION 135 OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 2013 READ WITH THE COMPANIES (CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY POLICY) RULES, 2014 WHAT IS THE CSR? CSR is a Concept whereby Companies not only consider their profitability and growth, but also the interests of society and the environment – by taking responsibility for the impact […]
MCA notifies PM CARES as eligible to receive CSR Corpuses of corporates as it amends Schedule VII of Companies Act, 2013 vide Gazette Notification dated 26th May, 2020 and included Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activities under Section 135 of Companies Act, 2013. […]
Updated extract of Section 135 Section 135 of COmpanies Act, 2013 alongwith SCHEDULE VII Notified Date of Section: 01/04/2014 Corporate Social Responsibility 135. (1) Every company having net worth of rupees five hundred crore or more, or turnover of rupees one thousand crore or more or a net profit of rupees five crore or more […]
MEANING OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: “Corporate Social Responsibility” means and includes but is not limited to projects or program relating to activities specified in Schedule VII to The Act and projects or program relating to those activities which are undertaken by Board of directors of a company in ensuring the recommendation of the CSR Committee […]
The amount spent by a company towards CSR cannot be claimed as business expenditure. The Finance Act, 2014 provides that any expenditure incurred by an assessee on the activities relating to corporate social responsibility referred to in section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 shall not be deemed to be an expenditure incurred by the assessee for the purposes of the business or profession. As per section 37(1) of Income Tax Act, 1961 the expenses incurred by the companies on CSR are taxable.
The issue under consideration is that whether the expenditure incurred for CSR will also be qualified for deduction under section 80G?
The article starts with the jurisprudence behind the law of corporate social responsibility. It then tries to confirm it with the different schools of whether it is a correlative duty or absolute duty or it is a fair law or not. It further tries to check the validity and looks into the matter of moral […]
The world is at a crisis situation. We are going through a pandemic with far reaching effects not seen by anyone living today. There are thousands of people dying all over the world and the numbers may soon reach lakhs. The effect is not only on the lives and health of the people, but also […]
