Author name: Akash Tiwari

Form 32 for intimating ROC regarding the particulars of appointment of Directors, etc and changes therein in pursuant to Section 303 (2) of the Companies Act, 1956, will now be processed under Straight Through Process (STP) mode and the practicing professionals like CS, CA and CWA have to certify the correctness of the form. The details are available in the […]

In the present system there is a facility with the ROC, to mark the Companies having management dispute on the basis of complaints received. As a result of this marking, all the forms filed  for such company are not approved and  put under work-in progress, until it is demarked by the ROC. In order to bring uniformity of  practices

Ministry of Corporate Affairs has vide Circular No. 17/2011 dated 21st April 2011 taken a ‘Green initiative in the Corporate Governance’ by allowing paperless compliances by the companies after considering Section 2, 4, 5 and 81 of the Information and Technology Act, 2000 for legal validity of compliances under Companies Act through electronic mode. It has been clarified that if the

The  Ministry of Corporate Affairs has vide circular No. 16/2011 dated 20th April, 2011 issued detailed guidelines simplifying the procedures to be adopted for the amalgamation of Government Companies under section 396 of the Companies Act, 1956

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has reviewed  the existing procedures followed by the Companies for seeking prior approval of the Central Government for appointment of cost auditor under Section 233 B (2) of the Companies Act, 1956 and on that basis revised the said procedure to be followed by the Companies. The modified procedure shall be effective from the financial

Ministry of Corporate Affairs has vide Circular No. 14/2011 dated 8th April 2011 entrusted practicing professionals registered as Members of the professional bodies namely, ICAI, ICSI & ICWAI with the responsibility of ensuring integrity of documents filed by them with MCA in electronic mode. Professionals are now to be responsible for submitting /certifying documents (to be signed digitally by them) and

Ministry of Corporate Affairs vide Circular No. 12/2011 dated 7thApril 2011 has simplified the procedures under the Easy Exit Scheme and issued the revised procedure for EES scheme.

Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has already simplified the procedure for obtaining DIN online. MCA vide Circular No. 11/2011 dated 7thApril 2011 has taken another step towards simplification in allotment of DIN where in DIN will be allotted online on the basis of mandatory filling of  specified fields in DIN  -1. The Ministry has also clarified that the existing DIN holders who

Ministry of Corporate Affairs vide Circular  No. 10/2011 dated 4th April 2011 clarified that the words “partnership” wherever occurring in the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, the Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959 and the Company Secretaries Act, 1980 shall mutatis mutandis be construed as including those Limited Liability Partnerships where all the other partners are natural persons(individuals).

Ministry of Corporate Affairs vide General Circular No. 09/2011 dated  31st March, 2011 has mandated certain class of companies to file balance sheets and profit and loss account for the year 2010-11 onwards by using XBRL taxonomy. The Financial Statements required to be filed in XBRL format would be based upon the Taxonomy on XBRL developed for the existing Schedule