Regulatory Compliance: A Critical Investment for Businesses in Today’s Complex Regulatory Environment

The current business landscape is nothing like decades or even a few years ago. Several sweeping changes have shifted the way companies do business. Of these changes, regulatory compliance has emerged as a transformative force that has positively impacted the perception and implementation of business practices. Regulatory compliance has transcended from being a mere legal…

A Comprehensive List of Licenses for the Hotel and Restaurant Business

Hospitality is the most booming service industry. With a high disposable income, quality of service and customer satisfaction are needed for its growth. The Hospitality industry encompasses a broad category of service segments within itself, like Food & Beverages, Travel & Tourism, Lodging and Recreation, Event Planning, and many more. The Hotel and Restaurant business…

Link Aadhar card to Pan Card before 30th June'20

Lets Talk Compliance – Alert to PAN Card Holders! Link PAN with Aadhaar on or before June 30, 2020

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has stated that a Permanent Account Number (PAN) will become inoperative if not linked with Aadhaar by 30th June’2020 (extended from 31.03.2020 due to COVID-19 Lockdown). These stringent measures are taken in order to weed out fake PAN cards and accounts from the system and to track financial transactions.…

COVID19 Relief measures by Ministry of Corporate Affairs

COVID-19 Relief Measures announced by Ministry Of Corporate affairs

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) is fully cognizant of the difficulties faced by the companies on account of ongoing nation-wide lockdown and social distancing requirement due to COVID 19. In furtherance of the Government’s objective of facilitating corporate compliances during the current lockdown period in taking certain emergent/ urgent measures. Ministry of Corporate Affairs…

Laws of High Sea and its effect on labour law focused on indutries like Oil rigs, petroleum refineries etc.

Let’s Talk Compliance – The Law of High Seas – Labour Laws perspective

Introduction: We are living in an era of rising expectations from people and increasing consumerism. This has paved the way for business expansion beyond land borders and, many companies have ventured into the sea to tap the natural potential and convert this into business opportunities. Until a few decades ago, there were no national or…

The most important element to scale your startups

A proper germinated and conceptualized Startup can over a period of time survive, succeed and thrive once it starts calling up according to its strategic initiatives. After the initial commencement of business, and market growth and success, Startups look to scale through other different options available in the market to spread its reach. New customer…

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Startups – a great disruptors

When you look at traditional industries in India, it is clear that many are bygone and monotonous. However, people continue to do business within these industries, because of, the absence of other practical alternatives. But when a startup emerges with modern technology, better investment options and wider market acceptance things start changing. Startups are called…

Break Complexities of compliance

Handling the complexities of statutory compliance in emerging businesses from central, state and local Governments is a challenge for every organization/company/startup in India. In specific, companies with limited resources find that compliance management is difficult and consider this as a barrier for business growth and sale. Let’s see some of the common problems as follows:-…

Let’s Talk Compliance – Is it the intention of CoW to make Principal Employers liable for bonus to contract workers ?

Every employee who has worked in the establishment for not less than 30 days in an accounting year shall be paid bonus by his / her employer as per Sec 8 of, The Payment of Bonus Act.  The term ‘employee’ as defined in Sec 2(13) does not include contract workers.  Hence the position is clear…

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Statutory Compliance Audit for NBFCs – An introduction

What is NBFC? The Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) is a heterogeneous group of financial institutions that perform vehicle finance, equipment lease finance, personal loans, consumer loans, housing loans, etc. It is regulated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Most NBFC’s are categorized as: NBFC-D NBFC-ND Core investment companies. NBFC-D is NBFCs accepting deposits from banks whereas…