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 It was highlighted that outdated informati...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...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Under Section 135 Of Companies Act, 2013 As Amended Vide The Companies (Amendment) Act, 2019 Read With Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014: A Journey From Voluntary To Forced Contribution. 1 Applicability as per Section 135(1) Every company including its holding or subsidiary, and a foreign company defined under clause […]
With the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Companies are able to develop their own social investment strategies and decide where to invest and implement programs, but the government has recommended particular areas of need, including eradicating hunger and poverty, maternal and child health, promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability etc.
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) is understood to be the way firms integrate social, environmental and economic concerns into their values, culture, decision making, strategy and operations in a transparent and accountable manner and thereby establish better practice within the firm, create wealth and improve society. CSR is also called Corporate Citizenship or Corporate Responsibility. As […]
Section 135 – Corporate Social Responsibility The Parliament has passed amendments to Companies Act and the bill now advocates for stricter laws for CSR. Amendments are made to Section 135 to carry forward the unspent corporate social responsibility amount, to a special account to be spent within three financial years and transfer thereafter to the […]
Corporate Social Responsibility 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 during [the immediately preceding financial year] shall constitute a Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the Board consisting of three or more […]
Companies Amendment Act, 2019– Section 135: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – In-depth Analysis Section 135 has been amended with respect to spending of CSR amount by companies, transfer of unspent amount, penal provisions and power to CG to issue directions. Amendment: Clause (a) in sub-section (5), — (i) after the words “three immediately preceding financial years,”, […]
The Companies Amendment Bill 2019 seeks to tighten the Corporate Social Responsibility provisions as enumerated under the Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 which presently requires certain classes of Companies to shell out 2% of the average net profits of the Company for the three immediate preceding years towards CSR spending. The provision also […]
India is the first country to mandate the provisions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and this landmark legislation is governed under 135 of The Companies Act, 2013, read with The Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017 and the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014.
Penalty for non-compliance of CSR provisions under Companies Act, 2013 There is no specific penal provision for non-compliance under section 135 of the Act. However, there is risk exposure under two different provisions. A. Section 134(3)(o)& Section 134(8) (Non-disclosure or absence of the details about the CSR policy and its implementation in the Boards’ report […]
Central Government hereby makes the following further amendments to Schedule VII of the said Act, namely:- In the said Schedule VII, after item (xi) and the entries relating thereto, the following item and entries shall be inserted, namely:-
