Vendor Compliance
Vendor Compliance Vendor Compliance in India: A Complete Guide to Onboarding, Monitoring and Risk Control A company can maintain flawless books, file every return on time and still find itself paying for someone else’s non-compliance. That is the peculiar nature of vendor risk in India. If a supplier fails to report an invoice in its
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Corporate Tax Corporate Tax in India: A Complete Guide to Rates, Computation, Compliance and Advisory Corporate tax is rarely decided in the final month of the financial year, though that is when most companies begin thinking about it. It is decided much earlier — in the choice of tax regime the company elected and can
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TDS Return Filing TDS Return Filing in India: A Complete Guide to Deduction, Deposit and Reporting Tax deducted at source is the one compliance where a business collects tax on behalf of the government from its own vendors, employees and service providers — and carries the entire liability if it gets anything wrong. The obligation
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Income Tax Filing Income Tax Filing in India: A Complete Guide to Returns, Assessments and Professional Support Filing an income tax return in India is no longer the paperwork exercise it once was. The department now receives information about a taxpayer long before the taxpayer files anything — salary details from employers, interest from banks,
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Monthly MIS & Financial Reports Monthly MIS & Financial Reports: A Complete Guide to Management Reporting in India Most businesses in India close their books once a year, and they do it for the auditor rather than for themselves. Entries are recorded through the year, vouchers are filed, returns are somehow met, and the real
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Director KYC A Practical Compliance Guide to DIR-3 KYC Under the Companies Act, 2013 Director KYC is the smallest compliance in the Companies Act and one of the most disruptive to get wrong. It is a single form, filed by an individual rather than a company, carrying no substantive disclosure and — when filed on
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Board Resolutions & Minutes A Practical Compliance Guide for Companies Registered Under the Companies Act, 2013 A company has no mind of its own. It acts through its Board, and the Board acts through resolutions. Every corporate act of consequence — opening a bank account, borrowing, allotting shares, appointing an auditor, approving accounts, authorising a
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Share Allotment & Transfer A Practical Compliance Guide for Companies Registered Under the Companies Act, 2013 Allotment creates shares. Transfer moves them. Between them they account for almost every change in a company’s ownership, and almost every dispute about it. They are also the two corporate actions most likely to be done informally — a
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Maintaining Statutory Registers What This Layer of Compliance Actually Is The moment a rupee of foreign money enters an Indian company’s share capital, a second regulator joins the file. The Registrar of Companies governs the corporate act — the allotment, the transfer deed, the register of members. The Reserve Bank of India, through FEMA, governs
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Technology Licensing Agreements The Patents Are Usually the Smallest Part of a Technology Deal A technology licence is not a permission to use a patent. It is a bundle, and the patent is frequently the least valuable item in it. What the licensee actually needs in order to manufacture the product or run the process
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Royalty Agreements The Rate Is the Easy Part. The Base Is Where the Money Actually Is. Every royalty negotiation begins with the percentage. Four per cent or six. Eight on the first crore, five thereafter. The parties argue about it, settle it, shake hands, and treat the commercial discussion as concluded. Then a lawyer is
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IP Transfer & Assignment Documents You Are Never Transferring One Right — and the Formalities Differ for Every One of Them When a business is sold, a brand is acquired, a group is restructured or a founder finally regularises what the company has been using for three years, the instinct is to draft “an IP
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