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CCFS Scheme & UDIN Challenge for Pending Financial Statements: Practical Guidance

Company Law : ICAI rules restrict UDIN generation beyond 60 days of signing, making backdated financial statements invalid. Companies should pre...

March 11, 2026 2619 Views 1 comment Print

UDIN Relaxation Demand: A Dangerous Misunderstanding of Ethics and Law

Company Law : Proposals for allowing retrospective UDIN generation under compliance schemes have raised questions about professional ethics. Exp...

March 11, 2026 14766 Views 2 comments Print

UDIN – Decoding Preceding Year’s Audit Details

CA, CS, CMA : The UDIN portal now captures prior auditor information to ensure ethical compliance, professional discipline, and a traceable audi...

January 1, 2026 8991 Views 0 comment Print

UDIN 2025 Update: ICAI Makes Auditor’s Opinion Disclosure Mandatory

CA, CS, CMA : ICAI mandates that CAs must now record the type of audit opinion (Unmodified, Qualified, Adverse, or Disclaimer) when generating U...

October 28, 2025 11868 Views 2 comments Print

UDIN: Unique Document Identification Number for CAs | Benefits & Verification

CA, CS, CMA : Learn about UDIN (Unique Document Identification Number) for Chartered Accountants (CAs). Discover its purpose, format, registrati...

September 20, 2023 7389 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


ICAI Introduces Field-Level Validation for UDIN Under Section 44AB

CA, CS, CMA : The UDIN portal will now validate turnover, gross receipts, and presumptive tax conditions before allowing UDIN generation for tax...

February 14, 2026 2529 Views 0 comment Print

ICAI restricts UDIN Portal Login to Practicing Members

Corporate Law : FAQs confirm that only practicing professionals with a full-time CoP can generate UDINs, while others may only view past records. ...

December 23, 2025 5304 Views 0 comment Print

PAN Now Mandatory for UDIN Validation on Tax e-Filing Portal: ICAI

CA, CS, CMA : The authority held that PAN must be compulsorily entered for UDIN generation in GST and tax audit cases, expanding validation to f...

December 23, 2025 1041 Views 0 comment Print

Mandatory Preceding Year Audit Details Introduced for UDIN Generation by ICAI

CA, CS, CMA : UDIN generation now requires disclosure of preceding year audit details for specific audit categories. The update strengthens audi...

December 23, 2025 1863 Views 0 comment Print

ICAI UDIN Portal Migrates to DigiCA Platform

CA, CS, CMA : ICAI to upgrade UDIN Portal to DigiCA Platform on 20th Dec 2025 with enhanced features and improved interface. Members should comp...

December 12, 2025 11136 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Calcutta HC Remanded GST Appeal Due to Non-Filing of Proper CA Certificate with UDIN

Goods and Services Tax : The High Court granted a post-decisional hearing after finding that a proper Chartered Accountant’s certificate with UDIN was no...

February 15, 2026 582 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC Upholds Bid Disqualification Over Missing Certified Information in UDIN Certificate

CA, CS, CMA : Delhi High Court ruling upholds disqualification of bid by Sunshine Caterers in IRCTC tender due to non-mention of certified infor...

April 10, 2024 2070 Views 0 comment Print

Rejection of technical bids justified as tax audit report didn’t contained UDIN

Corporate Law : Uttarakhand High Court held that as per notification dated 02.08.2019, Tax Audit Reports are mandatorily required to have Unique D...

June 13, 2023 1584 Views 0 comment Print

GST ITC refund Scam: HC grants Bail to Gurugram CA

Goods and Services Tax : In the present case, he had been paid professional fee for uploading of the refund of Input Tax Credit. The petitioner and his co-...

October 13, 2022 7392 Views 0 comment Print

Due Date Extension Case- Extension denied, HC directs UOI to attend technical glitches on Portal – Penalty interest Issues considerable at Assessment Stage

Income Tax : Chartered Accountants Association, Surat Vs. Union Of India (Gujarat High Court)  HC refuses to Extend Due date of Filing The Tax...

January 11, 2022 14928 Views 1 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Verify DGFT Licences, Authorisations, Scrips, Certificates, Instruments via UDIN

DGFT : Verify DGFT Licences and Certificates online using UDIN. Access and authenticate documents easily on the DGFT website with no logi...

July 23, 2024 1545 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT to validate ICAI UDIN during upload of Tax Audit Reports

Income Tax : The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, in its gazette notification dated 2nd August, 2019, had made generation of UDIN f...

November 26, 2020 3510 Views 2 comments Print

ICAI notifies guideline for Mandatory issue of UDIN

CA, CS, CMA : A member of the Institute in practice shall generate Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN) for all kinds of the certificati...

August 2, 2019 7674 Views 1 comment Print


CSI UDIN and eCSIN Guidelines

August 30, 2020 1164 Views 0 comment Print

THE INSTITUTE OF company Secretaries of India MCA: August Shri Rajesh Verma. IAS Secretary Ministry of Corporate Affairs Government of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, Shastri Bhawan. New Delhi – 110 001 Subject: ICSI UDIN and eCSIN Guidelines – Reg. Respected Sir, Kindly refer to ICSI letter dated 19th December. 2019 and 3rd July, 2019 […]

ICAI enables Generation of UDIN In Bulk For Certificates

June 18, 2020 8745 Views 0 comment Print

A provision for generating UDIN in bulk for Certificates has been incorporated in UDIN Portal. Using this facility now the members will be able to generate UDIN in bulk (uptil 300 UDINs) for various types of Certificates in one go. It can be done through uploading of excel file.

Revised FAQs on UDIN for Statutory Bank / Tax Audit | LFAR | Certificates

May 6, 2020 44835 Views 2 comments Print

Q.1 While conducting Bank Audit, whether separate UDINs are required to be generated for LFAR, Tax Audit, Statutory Audit Report etc.? Ans: No, since UDIN has to be generated per Assignment per Signatory on a given date, so one UDIN will suffice for the Bank Audit Report including LFAR and Certificates. However, separate UDIN will […]

Add Column for UDIN on Certificates/Reports: ICAI to CBIC

March 18, 2020 7884 Views 0 comment Print

ICAI requested CBIC to include a column for mentioning UDIN in all the forms related to their department.   It is to be noted that CBDT has already assured ICAI to include UDIN in all its Audit Report and Certification from 1st April, 2020. UDIN curbs the malpractices of misrepresentation of Chartered Accountants’ services and forgeries […]

FAQs on Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN)- E-book

November 29, 2019 8364 Views 0 comment Print

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), being a proactive regulator of accountancy profession in India, has conceptualized and developed an innovative concept of Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN) under which a unique number is now generated for every document certified/attested by a Chartered Accountant in practice and registered with the UDIN portal. UDIN […]

ICAI UDIN Generation Process

October 20, 2019 71190 Views 3 comments Print

It has been noticed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India that Financial Documents / Reports / Certificates are being signed by Non-CAs misrepresenting themselves as CA Members thereby misleading the Regulators, Authorities and Stakeholders. To curb this menace and malpractices, ICAI has conceptualised and implemented an innovative concept called Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN). ICAI […]

Importance of ECSIN and UDIN for Practicing Company Secretaries

October 14, 2019 5592 Views 1 comment Print

UDIN is Unique Document Identification number is system generated 18 digit number which needs to be mentioned on the documents either by printing or it can be handwritten on the document issued. This 18 digit number means first 2 digit means of the year (Current year i.e. in case of 2019 it would be 19) Next 6 digit would consist of the membership number (A12345) and next 10 digits would be system generated randomly generated alpha numeric number.

ICSI UDIN and eCSIN Guidelines mandatory w.e.f. 1st October, 2019

October 4, 2019 2394 Views 0 comment Print

The role of the Company Secretaries as governance enablers in the Indian corporate scenario has been well acknowledged, both by the corporates and the Regulators. Company Secretaries, both in employment and in practice have distinct roles to play as far as the governance framework of the Indian corporate arena is concerned. The ICSI, too, has […]

ICSI Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN) Guidelines

September 23, 2019 5433 Views 0 comment Print

ICSI Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN) Guidelines. (as approved by the Council in its 261st (Special) Meeting held on 27th June, 2019 at New Delhi and further amended by the Council in its 263rd Meeting held on 23rd September, 2019 at New Delhi) In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Part II […]

ICAI extends time limit of UDIN generation to 30 days- One Time Relaxation

September 19, 2019 19458 Views 0 comment Print

Extension of time limit of UDIN generation from 15 days to 30 days – One Time Relaxation In response to the various representations received from Members at large for inability in generating UDIN due to floods in many parts of the Country and related internet issues, the Council at its 386th Meeting held on 18th […]

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