Responsibilties of CA in MCA Certification & Minimum Recommended Fee

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INSTRUCTION REGARDING CERTIFICATION OF e-FORMS BY PRACTISING PROFESSIONALS

Certification of e-forms under the Companies Act, 1956 by the Practising professionals

CIRCULAR NO. 14/2011, DATED 8-4-2011

Ministry of Corporate Affairs has been steadily progressing towards total electronic filing and approval regime. Objective is to do away with human intervention in MCA approvals to the maximum extent possible.

2. For this purpose, Ministry of Corporate Affairs has entrusted practicing professionals registered as Members of the professional bodies namely, ICAI, ICSI & ICWAI with the responsibility of ensuring integrity of documents filed by them with MCA in electronic mode. Professionals are now to be responsible for submitting/certifying documents (to be signed digitally by them) and system would accept most of these documents online without approval by Registrar of Companies or other officers of the Ministry.

3. However, to ensure that the data integrity is maintained at all times, there will be checking of such submissions to guard against fraudulent filing. In addition to the penal actions against the companies and their officers in default for furnishing incorrect or false information in the documents as provided under the Companies Act, 1956, action would also be taken on receipt of any complaint, anonymous or otherwise, against such professionals in the following manner :—

(a) Alleged wrong submissions: In such cases, quick enquiry will be conducted by the concerned RD who will be assessing prima facie, cases of wrong doing by the professionals. Concerned professionals will be given time for furnishing explanation before conveying to a cancellation.

(b) This report will be submitted to e-Governance Cell of MCA. The Cell will inform in the concerned Professional Institute to initiate an enquiry and complete the same within a month's time.

(c) Simultaneously, the concerned professional shall be debarred and shall not be allowed to enter to submit any document on MCA Portal. This debarment will be for a period of 30 days or till the final enquiry report is received from the respective Professional Institute.

(d) MCA will take a final decision after considering the report so received.

CCBCAF & SMP initiative for prescribing the Minimum Recommended Scale of Fees for the Professional Assignments done by the Chartered Accountants

The Committee for Capacity Building of CA Firms and Small & Medium Practitioners, ICAI (CCBCAF & SMP) has taken a major initiative for prescribing the Minimum Recommended Scale of Fees for the professional assignments done by our members of ICAI. The recommendation is about the fee to be charged as per the work performed for various professional assignments and the amount quoted under respective heads of professional work. The fee has been recommended separately for metro and non-metro Cities. The prescribed Minimum Recommended Scale Fees will enhance the productivity and Capacity Building of Practitioners & CA Firms and will largely benefit the SMP segment. Please click here for Minimum Recommended Scale of Fees for Metro Cities Please Click Here for Minimum Recommended Scale of Fees for Non Metro Cities