Statutory Audit Alert – March 2023

Implementation & Guidance on Audit Trail A. Management’s Responsibility Proviso to Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 20141 (hereinafter referred as “the Account Rules”) states that for the financial year commencing on or after the 1st day of April 2023, every company which uses accounting software for maintaining its books of account, shall use only such accounting software which has a feature of recording audit trail of each and every transaction, creating an edit log of each change made

Internal Audit Alert – March 2023

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Introduction: In today’s world increase in population has caused increase in demand of almost everything. To keep up with the increase in demand industries and organisations push their employees to do more and more work. Due to increase in competitors in every field organisations are trying to find way to increase their rate of work along with efficiency and quality. This has caused various organisationss to turn toward automation. Automation can do daily repetitive task without

Indirect Tax Alert – March 2023

GST Calendar –Compliances for the month of March’2023 Nature of Compliances Due Date GSTR-7 (Tax Deducted at Source ‘TDS’) April 10, 2023 GSTR-8 (Tax Collected at Source ‘TCS’) April 10, 2023 GSTR-1 April 11, 2023 IFF- Invoice furnishing facility (Availing QRMP) April 13, 2023 GSTR-6 Input Service Distributor April 13, 2023 GSTR-2B (Auto Generated Statement) April 14, 2023 GSTR-3B April 20, 2023 GSTR-5 (Non-Resident Taxable Person) April 20, 2023 GSTR-5A (OIDAR Service Provider) April 20, 2023 PMT-06 (who have opted

Direct Tax – March 2023

Amendments to Finance Bill, 2023 Finance Bill, 2023 inserted a new provision- Section 50AA for calculation of capital gains resulting from the transfer, redemption, or maturity of Market Linked Debentures (MLDs). Section 50AA also provided the capital gains from MLDs shall be deemed to be short-term capital gain. Under the amendment to Finance Bill, the scope of this section has been expanded to cover specified mutual funds. “specified mutual fund”: means a mutual fund where not more than 35% of

Corporate Finance – March 2023

Jindal Stainless Buys $157-Mn Stake in Indonesian Firm to Secure Nickel Supply In order to guarantee a supply of nickel, a crucial component in the creation of stainless steel, India’s Jindal Stainless Ltd paid $157 million for a 49% share in New Yaking Pte. Ltd, a company with headquarters in Indonesia. In accordance with the agreement, a nickel pig iron facility will be built and run in Indonesia’s Halmahera Islands. Within two years, the factory will be put into operation,

Corporate & Legal – March 2023

In this edition we have tried to bring to your notice the latest amendment that followed in the month of March, 2023 issued by MCA, RBI, SEBI, DIPP and others. Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has notified the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Amendment Rules, 2023. As per the amended rules, a new para 39AG has been inserted in Ind AS 101, which states that ‘deferred tax related to assets and liabilities arising from a