Principle of 80:20 is my favorite allocation for portfolio allocation Background The most common and first question comes to the mind of every person on the day he starts earning is where to invest savings and how should he invest so that he can reap maximum benefits out of the amount deployed by them. I […]
♦ Section 135 r/w Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013 (2013 Act) introduces the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a statutory obligation of companies. Further, Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 (CSR Rules 2014) deal with the CSR norms in detail. Vide notifications and/or amendments, more activities have been added to […]
Digital Signature Certificates (DSC) are the digital equivalent (that is electronic format) of physical or paper certificates. As per Information Technology Act 2000 Digital signatures mean the authentication of any electronic record using an electronic method or procedure of mathematical scheme to verify the authenticity of digital documents or messages. Also, a valid digital signature […]
Section 14 of IBC covers proceeding under Section138/141 against a corporate debtor but not against natural persons The Apex Court vide its order dated 01.03.2021 in P Mohanraj v. M/S Shah Brothers Ispat Pvt Ltd ruled that the institution or continuation of a proceeding under Section 138/141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (NI Act) will […]
Article contains updates with respect to Notifications, Circulars, Rules, Regulations issued in the Month of February 2021 by Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Securities Exchange Board of India, Updates of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) and also includes Recent Corporate News. Article attempts to analyses Notifications, Circulars, […]
Engineering Analysis Centre of Excellence Private Limited Vs CIT (Supreme Court of India); Civil Appeal Nos. 8733-8734 of 2018; Dated: 02/03/2021 Issues Involved : 1. The amounts paid by the residents in India to non-resident, foreign software suppliers; amounts to royalty, there by necessitating withholding of taxes under section 195 of Income Tax Act. 2. […]
Annual Return is a form where any assessee is required to fill it with department annually but assessee has also given chances to correct the output tax liability and input tax through filing of form annual return GSTR-9. Annual Return GSTR-9 is not sufficient if we have filled and reversed the INPUT Tax and shown […]
Article explains GST Compliances Related Tasks for FY 2020-21, ITC Related Tasks for FY 2020-21, GST Reconciliations Related Tasks for FY 2020-21 & GST Law Related Year ending Task for FY 2020-21.
Let us discuss the definition of ‘Agent’ in GST. An agent has been defined under sub-section (5) of section 2 of The Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, (herein after referred to as CGST ACT). I reproduce below the said definition for ready reference. “(5) “agent” means a person, including a factor, broker, commission agent, […]
Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) : An entity that emerges as a result of customary Law There are different entities which have separate legal existence some of them emerges naturally (like Humans), some of them emerges as a result of incorporation or in simple words registration under any statue (like Companies and Registered Firms) but there […]