Changes via Company Auditor’s Report Order , 2020 CARO

CARO Reporting, 2020 being notified

MCA has notified particular issues being important & thereby should be reported as per particular norms with the financial statements for certain entities as a part of their audit reports for almost all companies except a few below.

Banking, Insurance, Charitable setups & small cos. or OPC has been kept out of this exercise. Also, some smaller setups with below norms are exempt from this as below –

  • Not a holding or subsidiary of a Public company
  • Paid-up Capital plus Reserves l< 1 Crore at the reporting date.
  • Borrowings less than or equal to Rs. 1 Crore at any time during the year
  • Revenue less than or equal to Rs. 10 Crores in the financial year

Key points of change suggest towards-

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  • Whether the company is maintaining proper records showing full particulars of intangible assets
  • Reporting on revaluation of Property, Plant and Equipment’s by company
  • Reporting of proceedings under the *Benami Transactions* (Prohibition) Act, 1988. i.e. whether the company has appropriately disclosed the details in its financial statements
  • Reporting if the *stock statements filed with banks* are in line with books of accounts, if the company was sanctioned working capital limits in excess of five crore rupees or more from banks or financial institutions. To report any discrepancies of 10% or more in the aggregate for each class of inventory
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  • Report quarterly returns or statements filed by the company with such banks or financial institutions are in agreement with the books of account of the Company, if not, give details
  • Reporting of *investments* in or providing of any *guarantee or security* or granting any loans or advances.
  • Loans overdue for more than 90 days, *evergreening of loans, reporting on any *loan default*, etc.
  • Report on evergreening of loans – specify the aggregate amount of such dues renewed or extended or settled by fresh loans and the percentage of the aggregate to the total loans or advances in the nature of loans granted during the year
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  • Reporting of compliances with RBI directives* and the provisions the Companies Act with respect to deemed deposits.
  • Reporting with respect to transactions not recorded in the books of account but now surrendered or disclosed as income in the income tax proceedings.
  • Report on  balances outstanding at the balance sheet date with respect to such loans or advances and guarantees or security to subsidiaries, joint ventures, and associates
  • Reporting on treatment by the auditor of *whistle-blower complaints* received during the year by the company
  • Reporting on the internal audit system
  • Reporting on cash losses
  • Reporting on the resignation of the statutory auditors
  • Reporting on the uncertainty of company capable of meeting its liabilities
  • Reporting transfer of *unspent CSR* amount to Fund specified in Schedule VII
  • Investment, Guarantee & Security given has been covered now along with loans & Advances – in terms of benefits to the company
  • Clarification required for Non-Disclosure of Properties taken on Lease by the Lessee
  • Auditor has to specifically comment on coverage and procedure adopted as per audit approach Also Materiality has been  defined as 10% or more in each class of Inventory

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50 CRORE & ABOVE- Digital Payments Acceptability!

Rule:

*Any business entity/person having business turnover/gross receipts exceeding INR 50 Crore in FY 2018-19, please note the following changes brought in to effect from 1st Nov:*

Section 269SU of the Income-Tax Act, 1961, applicable with effect from 1 November 2019, makes it mandatory to accept payments (ie provide facility to the customers for accepting payment) in prescribed electronic modes, in addition to existing modes, for entities having turnover exceeding INR 50 Crore.

Failure to provide such facility will be liable to a penalty of five thousand rupees, for every day during which such failure continues.

*What does it mean?*

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Please ensure that you print your preference to accept payments from customers/debtors/payees in electronic mode by furnishing your E Mode payment details on your invoices / contracts / agreements / order acceptance letter etc.

*What is prescribed Electronic Mode in addition to existing electronic mode?*

At the outset, if you strictly encourage payments by payees to you to your bank accounts by NEFT, RTGS, IMPS as mentioned above it is reasonable compliance.  In addition, please try to arrange for E Modes like BHIM UPI, UPI-QR Code, Aadhaar Pay, Payment Gateways of banks / Financial Institutions / Payment Settlement Systems etc.

OPTIONS

*Despite arranging NEFT/RTGS/IMPS payments, if the customer comes and hands over a cheque /Demand Draft, what should be done?*

  1. a) Please advise them to use E Mode for making payments to you
  2. b) If they insist for cheque/DD payment only, please get a declaration signed duly by him/them on his/their commercial letter head if any (refer their Aadhar No and valid Mobile phone No too) stating the following:

I / We do not have net banking facility or any other E Mode at the time of payment / for the time being / always

I / We have no option but to pay by mode other than E Mode, though you insisted for payment by E Mode only

*Despite making all possible efforts and arrangements, in case a few payments are received in other than E-mode, will the penalty of Rs 5000 per day, be applied automatically?*

It is not an indiscriminate and mechanically imposed penalty.  You can prove your genuineness with necessary evidences and avoid such penalties.

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What is Input Service Distributor (ISD) under GST ?

What is Input Service Distributor under GST ?

  • Input Service Distributor is an office of a business which gets assess solicitations for information benefits and disperses accessible ITC to other branch workplaces of a similar business. ISD and the branches may have diverse GSTIN’s, yet they should have same PAN.
  • ISD Mechanism is implied just to disperse the credit on regular solicitations relating to INPUT SERVICES and not on products (Input Goods or Capital Goods)

For Example, the head office of ABC Pvt Ltd is situated in Hyderabad. ABC Pvt Ltd has its branches in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. The head office has gotten the expert administrations for the benefit of every one of its branches and got the duty receipt for the equivalent. As the expert administrations are utilized by every one of the branches, the head office at Hyderabad can’t guarantee the whole info assess credit. The Input Tax Credit ought to be disseminated to the branches situated in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.

Enrollment of ISD under GST

  • An Input Service Distributor ought to mandatorily enroll under GST as an ISD despite the fact that it might be independently enlisted under GST.
  • There is no Threshold limit for ISD enlistment under GST.

intended to rearrange the info assess credit taking procedure for the elements

Reason for enrolling as ISD

The idea of ISD is an office made accessible to business having a substantial offer of normal use and where charging/installment is done from a brought together area. The component is intended to rearrange the info charge credit taking procedure for the substances and the office is intended to reinforce the consistent stream of credit under GST

Way of Distribution of credit under GST

The ISD ought to keep up arithmetical precision and guarantee that the credit appropriated does not surpass the acknowledge accessible for it for conveyance.

  • The credit with respect to Input Service ought to be appropriated just to the specific beneficiary to whom that input benefit is inferable.
  • In the event that the info benefit is inferable from more than 1 beneficiary, the applicable ITC ought to be disseminated to such beneficiaries in the proportion of turnover of the beneficiary in a state/an area
  • ITC identifying with information administrations which are normal for all branches ought to be dispersed to every one of the beneficiaries in the proportion of turnover as depicted in (b) above
  • Both ineligible and qualified ITC ought to be circulated independently
  • ITC of CGST, SGST/UTGST and IGST ought to be circulated independently.

On the off chance that your business is giving administrations crosswise over different geos, branches, might want to streamline and raise the responsibility, consider addressing Team GST Compliance with EZTax.in to know more, enable you to be consistent, and get the greatest ITC conceivable.

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