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 It was highlighted that outdated informati...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...
The PM-CARES Fund has been set up to provide relief to those affected by any kind of emergency or distress situation. Accordingly, it is clarified that any contribution made to the PM CARES Fund shall qualify as CSR expenditure under the Companies Act 2013.
Many Corporates & Professionals has asked a question ‘Whether amount spent for for prevention or Spread CORONA Virus or CoVID-19 shall be considered as CSR Expense under Section 135 of Companies Act, 2013?’ To clarify the same MCA has issued a clarification on 23rd March, 2020 vide General Circular No. 10/2020, according to which spending […]
Keeping in view the spread of the Corona Virus (COVID-19) in India, its declaration as pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and decision of the Government of India to treat this as a notified disaster, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs vide its General Circular No. 10/2020 dated 23rd March, 2020 has clarified that spending […]
Draft Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Amendment Rules, 2020 In order to operationalize the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2019, the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Amendment Rules , 2020 has been drafted for carrying out amendments in the Companies (CSR Policy) Rules, 2014. Definitions amended/ newly inserted Amended Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility The following activities […]
Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has released the Draft Companies (CSR Policy) Amendment Rules, 2020 proposing amendments to Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 for public comments. An attempt has been made to analyse the rules and the changes that are brought out by the said rules vis a vis the rules as are […]
Brief note on the proposed amendments in the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 (CSR Rules) as proposed vide Draft Companies (CSR Policy) Amendment Rules, 2020: 1. Newly phrased definitions under the CSR Rules: a) ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ defined with a negative list. Some of the exclusions like normal course were already there but […]
In order to operationalize the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2019, the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Amendment Rules , 2020 has been drafted for carrying out amendments in the Companies (CSR Policy) Rules, 2014.
Section 135 clearly states and start with EVERY COMPANY and Every company includes Private Limited Companies/ Public Limited Companies/ Foreign Companies/ Section 8 Company and every company incorporated under the Companies Act 2013 or any other previous law, as may be applicable thereon.
Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 and The Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 as amended from time to time provides for the provisions of Corporate Social Responsibility applicable on corporate entities in India. Applicability: Every Company which fulfils any of the following limits during the immediately preceding Financial Year: 1. Net worth: […]
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) under Companies Act 2013- Concept, Applicability, Provisions, Penalty The Companies Act 1956 replaced by the new Companies Act 2013. There are so many changes that came into force and several provisions inserted the first time in the corporate world of India. One of such new provisions is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) […]