The Ministry of Corporate Affairs conferred its approval to Secretarial Standard-1 (relating to Board Meeting) and Secretarial Standard-2 (relating to General Meeting) issued by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). No other country of the world except India has yet adopted the Secretarial Standards (SS). The Board of Directors play an imperative role in the functioning, governing, progression of an organization.
Associate company in relation to another company, means a company in which that other company has a significant influence, but which is not a subsidiary company of the company having such influence and includes a joint venture company.
Legally a ‘summons’ is a legal document issued by a Court or by an administrative agency of a Government for various purposes. Summons is of various types. One among them is ‘notice to appear’. In this summons is prepared and served on a person by a law enforcement officer, compelling the appearance of a person before him within a certain period of time or on certain date to give information or furnish documents etc.,
To amend 4(1)(C) to allow companies to have an option to have a more generic object clause, i.e. ‘to enlarge in any lawful act or activity or business as per the law for the the time being in force’ in the MOA
This Standard on Auditing (SA) deals with the external auditor’s responsibilities if using the work of internal auditors. This includes (a) using the work of the internal audit function in obtaining audit evidence and (b) using internal auditors to provide direct assistance under the direction, supervision and review of the external auditor. This SA is effective for audits of financial statements for periods beginning on or after 01st April, 2016.
Notification No. 38/2015-2020 a) Imports under Advance Authorisation Scheme are exempted from Minimum import Price (MIP) under this Notification; b) MIP is also exempted for all API grade steel conforming to X-52 and higher API grades !Or manufacturing pipes used for pipeline transportation systems in the petroleum and natural gas industries: and
The Income Tax Department has been at the forefront of using technology in implementing its – e-Governance initiatives. Most of its routine communication to taxpayers is through email and SMS. Therefore, the Department is very sensitive and alert to attempts made by fraudsters to spoof the Department’s identity to send phishing emails.
List of Exempted Services 1. Services Provided to the United Nations or a specified international organization. 2. With effect from 01.04.2015 (Substituted by Notification No. 06/2015-ST, Dated 01.03.2015) (i) Health care services by a clinical establishment, an authorized medical practitioner or para-medics;
What is apparent is not always real. To reach out to the real story, one has to undertake the scavenging exercise. This daunting task undertaken by ITAT Amritsar in a recent case pronounced on 05-02-2016 to resolve the mayhem when survey documents along with auditors qualifications had apparently almost maimed the assessee.
The Reserve Bank of India has proposed certain changes in respect of the time frame for issue of shares to align the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 which requires an investee company receiving Foreign Direct Investments to issue shares within 180 days of receipt of foreign investment
