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CA, CS, CMA : ICSI has sought amendment of FEMA, SAFEMA and related provisions to make Company Secretaries in Practice eligible for appointment ...
Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi orders a review of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India's income tax exemption claim, sending the matter b...
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Corporate Law : Ministry of Corporate Affairs updates tribunal members for ICAI and ICMAI election dispute cases, effective from April 17, 2025....
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CA, CS, CMA : Justice Talwant Singh appointed as Chairperson of the Appellate Authority for professional institutes under the Chartered Accounta...
CA, CS, CMA : ICSI has proposed Draft Company Secretaries (Amendment) Regulations, 2023 to amend the Company Secretaries Regulations, 1982. Thes...
Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014, provides that every listed company and every prescribed company shall annex with its Board’s Report, a Secretarial Audit Report, given by a Company. Secretary in Practice, in Form MR- 3. The Council at its 226th meeting […]
The Council at its 227th Meeting held at New Delhi on January 18, 2015 while approving the formation of LLPs by PCS granted general permission to the members in practice to: (a) become designated / active partner of a limited liability partnership (LLP) the objects of which include carrying out attestation services which fall within the scope of the profession of Company Secretaries irrespective of whether or not the practising member holds substantial interest in that LLP;
I qualified my company secretary examination last year, and luckily was the first one to clear among my peers with whom I started the course. By God’s grace I succeeded in clearing all of my levels at the first attempt and so am called a company secretary comparatively soon. I completed my CS with Graduation i.e. b.com which proved to be a pillar for my studies..
PDII:CA-2013 , December 22, 2014 Section 204 requires every listed company and a company belonging to other class of companies as may be prescribed to annex with its Board’s report made in terms of sub-section (3) of section 134, a secretarial audit report, given by a company secretary in practice, in such form as may […]
Pursuant to Notification No.1 of 2014 dated 91h September, 2014, the Election to the 12th Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India was held in accordance with section 9(2)(a) of the Company Secretaries Act, 1980 and the Company Secretaries (Election to the Council) Rules, 2006 on 12th and 139i December, 2014 at Delhi and Mumbai and on 12′” December, 2014 at other places.
Madhusudan Kabra I am writing this article especially for students of ICAI, ICSI, ICAI (CMA). This article is summarization of what strategies I had made while preparing for CA examinations, which my friends haven’t applied and later on suffered a lot particularly on a day before examinations. So my try is to share my experience […]
We are happy to inform that the Institute has brought out a publication namely ‘Referencer on Pre-certification of e-forms’ under the Companies Act, 2013. Pre-certification of e-forms is an important area of work for the Company Secretaries in practice. MCA has entrusted company secretaries with the responsibility of ensuring reliability of documents filed by companies […]
Dear Professional Colleagues, As you are already aware, MCA has introduced the ‘Company Law Settlement Scheme 2014’ (CLSS, 2014) vide the General Circular No. 34/2014 dated 12/08/2014. The CLSS, 2014 has been introduced for condoning the delay in filing the pending annual documents granting immunity for prosecution and charging a reduced additional fee of 25% […]
Dear Professional Colleagues, Festive greetings to all of you! I hope that all of you are quite busy with annual and other filings. Incidentally, this is the peak period of annual filing under MCA 21. It has been reported by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs that so far filing made by Companies are proportionately lesser […]
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has written a letter to Ministry of Corporate Affairs on 13.10.2013 by which it has requested to extend the last date of the Company Law Settlement Scheme, 2014 to December 31st, 2014. The CLSS 2014 has been introduced for condoning the deny in filing the pending annual documents […]
