Ministry of Corporate Affairs in view of COVID-19 have taken the following measures to reduce the compliance burden and other risks: UPDATE NO.1 Non-compliance of minimum residency in India for a period of at least 182 days by at least one director of every company,...
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Foreign companies and Permanent Establishment (PE)
With this article, we would like to explicate the concept of Foreign Companies and PE in light of Indian Income Tax Act provisions. Foreign Companies ♠ Foreign company means a company which is not a domestic company, i.e. a company registered outside India in any...
RBI reporting under Single Master Form (SMF)
The Reserve bank of India has announced the new reporting structure for FDI related transactions in which they have combined different reporting into a single combined form i.e. the Single Master Form (‘SMF’) which subsumed all the existing reporting in different...
FDI in Information Technology sector
Indian IT industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the country. It comprises of software industry and information technology enabled services (ITes), which even includes business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. It is considered as a pioneer in software...
Cabinet nod for foreign listing of firms, decriminalising offences
The Union Cabinet has approved 72 changes to the Companies Act 2013, with a thrust on decriminalising compoundable offences and allowing direct foreign listing for domestic companies to boost “Brand India”. The nod for the Companies amendment Bill, likely to be tabled...
Decisions taken In 39th GST council meeting
Article summarises Decisions Taken In 39th Meeting of GST Council on 14th March 2020. ANNUAL RETURN Relaxation of MSMEs from furnishing of Reconciliation Statement in FORM GSTR 9C for the F.Y. 2018-2019, for taxpayers having aggregate turnover > Rs.5 crores. Due...
Investments by some FPIs may attract Retro Tax
The budget proposal to apply indirect transfer provisions to even Category II foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) could lead to the imposition of retrospective tax on certain transactions, experts said. The government had restricted the exemption from indirect transfer...
Registration and Compliance of peer to peer lending platform-NBFC
NBFC –Peer to Peer Lending platform (NBFC-P2P) is a type of Non-Banking Financial Company which carries on the business of providing services of Loan facilitation to willing lenders and borrowers through online platform. This type of Non-Banking Financial Company is...
Income Tax E-Assessment proceeding
In her budget speech, the Hon’ble Finance Minister, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman had announced launching of a scheme in 2019 that would provide e-Assessment of Income-tax in electronic mode, in a phased manner, with no human interface. -On 7th of October 2019, the Revenue...