Navneet Kumar Jain

The article is an attempt to explore the untouched areas in the GST Audit arena. The companies have started the GST audit processes and are focussing on GSTR 9 (It will be given by the system later) and GSTR 9C but somehow companies are missing the vital links for the GST Audit....

The much awaited demand of the stake holders with regard to the fine-tuning of Companies Cost Records and Audit Rules has been met with though not fully by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs....

MCA has issued one notification issued on 20th Dec 2017 which is going to pave the way for alignment of Cost Records with GST records after the implementation of GST. ...

The anti-profiteering provisions are there in GST Acts to help the government to ensure that the common masses enjoy the benefits of the reduction in rates by way of reduced prices....

Show Cause Notices (SCNs) issued by MCA for non compliance with the Cost Audit Provisions: Is it a beginning to ensure collection of authenticated data at HSN code level for GST...

It is also proposed to insert new section 271DA in the Act to provide for levy of penalty on a person who receives a sum in contravention of the provisions of the proposed section 269ST. The penalty is proposed to be a sum equal to the amount of such receipt. The said penalty shall however not be levied if the person proves that there wer...

Normally, the companies have casual approach towards compliance with regard to the Costing Provisions. Few of the companies have already paid a price for it and had to pay high additional fees for appointment of Cost Auditors each for 2011-12, 2012-13 or 2013-14....

India is a country which introduced the concept of Cost Audits for the corporates. Till 2011, the cost audit report formats were never aligned with any of other statutory documents primarily. Now after realizing the need for the availability of production, capacity and costing data for policy decision making, in 2011 MCA brought in the co...

CMA Navneet Kumar Jain Any organization has to undergo many audits like Financial Audit, Tax Audit, VAT Audit, Excise Audit, Service Tax Audit & Cost Audit. Cost Audit was made applicable to most of the companies since the year 2011 and in the year 2014 again many of the industries  were apparently excluded from applicability [&helli...

Certification of Documents to be filed with MCA needs extra caution by Professionals which may effect of increase in Certification costs. ...