The Authority intends to modify the Circular No.031/IRDA/TPA/05, dated 16th December, 2005. Accordingly, the Authority has prepared the Exposure Draft. In this regard, comments/suggestions of all stakeholders on the Exposure Draft are invited. The comments/suggestions on the said draft may be forwarded at [email protected] within 10 days.
Please refer to Circular 40/NL/IRDA/08-09, dated 3rd March, 2009 wherein, the Authority has mandated all non-life Insurance Companies to submit quarterly and yearly business information. In view of the changing industry scenario and to make the information analysis more meaningful, the Authority has decided to replace the existing formats with the new ones as provided below:
An internal circular referred to above was issued regarding Taxation of motor vehicles under Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 for the VAT period from 1.4.2005. It was mentioned in the said circular that the relevant notification in respect of Motor Vehicle, dated 1st May 2002 as amended from time to time contained a reference to the entry 102 of Schedule ‘C’ to Bombay Sales Tax Act, 1959. That after coming into force of Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 from 1st April 2005, there was no such entry in existence in MVAT Act and hence the said notification was no more in force from 1st April 2005. Officers were directed to take action and disallow the claims of concessional rate under Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 for periods after 1st April 2005.
We have received requests from various stock exchanges to permit Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) to be admitted as members of stock exchanges so as to enable them to get registration as stock broker under SEBI (Stock brokers and Sub-brokers) Regulations, 1992.
Circular No. 28/2011-Customs, Representations have been received from the trade that, in some cases, field formations are collecting anti-dumping duty even after the expiry of the statutorily prescribed period of levy. It has been reported that the basis for such a practice could be that the notification providing for levy of anti-dumping duty does not specify the end date.
In supercession of all the previous circulars and instructions issued by Ministry of Corporate Affairs from time to time regarding name availability, the applicants and Registrar of Companies are advised to adhere following guidelines while applying or approving a name: As per provisions contained in Section 20 of the Companies Act, 1956, no company is to be registered with undesirable name. A proposed name is considered to be undesirable if it is identical with or too nearly resembling with:
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has been issuing two separate identification numbers as DIN to an individual for becoming a director of a company under Companies Act, 1956 and DPIN for a designated partner in a Limited Liability Partnership under Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Act, 2008. 2. To avoid this duplicity and to give ease to the stakeholders, the Ministry has decided to issue only one identification number to an individual for both the purpose.
Attention is drawn to clause 3.2 of the Master Circular 2010 on AML/CFT guidelines wherein Reporting obligations under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, and the Rules framed thereunder are stipulated to the insurance companies.
in continuation to the Circular no. 37/2011 dated 07.06.2011, the further information is given as under: — (i) Besides signing by signatories as specified u/s 215 of the Companies Act, 1956, the Statutory Auditor has to certify the financial statements prepared in XBRL mode for filing on MCA-21 portal. (ii) Phase-1 class of companies as per Circular 9/2011 dated 31.03.2011 and later exempted from XBRL filing (under Power sector, Insurance sector, NBFC and Banking sector) who are unable to file their financial statements would be exempted from additional fee due to delay in filing up to 30.09.2011.
It has been noticed that certain Courts have not allowed fees to be paid to the Chartered Accountants from Common Pool Fund in cases where petitions are filed in respect of companies under liquidation having no assets. The matter has been considered and it has been decided that in all such cases following steps be taken :
