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MCA to offer faceless adjudication of company law breaches
PrintThe ministry of corporate affairs will take a leaf out of the Income Tax department’s book to offer faceless adjudication of specified company law offences to enable social distancing as well as eliminate bureaucratic discretion.
The ministry will upgrade its online services to companies offered through its MCA21 portal so that certain breaches under the Companies Act can be adjudicated remotely through electronic means, said two people familiar with the development. These are the offences that the administrative machinery of the ministry is authorised to adjudicate on, so that businesses can settle them and pay the fine or penalty where needed without having to go to a court.
The Companies Act was amended last year to reclassify 16 offences as civil defaults and to let adjudicating officers appointed by the government to levy penalties instead of having to go to a court to decide on the matter. These offences include matters related to issuance of shares at a discount and default in filing annual returns. The idea now is to adjudicate such matters without company executives having a physical interface with government officials. Besides improving ease of doing business, the move is expected to help address the governance challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, using technology.
The Income Tax department has already enabled faceless or remote assessment of tax returns to eliminate any chance of inappropriate dealings between individual officers and the tax payer, who the government considers as its client.
Another Bill to amend the law--Companies (Amendment) Bill 2020, which seeks to decriminalise an additional 23 offences as part of an effort to make the law more ‘humane’ and to improve ease of doing business, was introduced in the Lok Sabha in the just- concluded budget session of Parliament, but is yet to be passed. Once the proposed amendment is passed or it is brought to effect through an Ordinance, these 23 offences will also become eligible for faceless resolution.#casansaar (Source - MCA, LiveMint)
The ministry will upgrade its online services to companies offered through its MCA21 portal so that certain breaches under the Companies Act can be adjudicated remotely through electronic means, said two people familiar with the development. These are the offences that the administrative machinery of the ministry is authorised to adjudicate on, so that businesses can settle them and pay the fine or penalty where needed without having to go to a court.
The Companies Act was amended last year to reclassify 16 offences as civil defaults and to let adjudicating officers appointed by the government to levy penalties instead of having to go to a court to decide on the matter. These offences include matters related to issuance of shares at a discount and default in filing annual returns. The idea now is to adjudicate such matters without company executives having a physical interface with government officials. Besides improving ease of doing business, the move is expected to help address the governance challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, using technology.
The Income Tax department has already enabled faceless or remote assessment of tax returns to eliminate any chance of inappropriate dealings between individual officers and the tax payer, who the government considers as its client.
Another Bill to amend the law--Companies (Amendment) Bill 2020, which seeks to decriminalise an additional 23 offences as part of an effort to make the law more ‘humane’ and to improve ease of doing business, was introduced in the Lok Sabha in the just- concluded budget session of Parliament, but is yet to be passed. Once the proposed amendment is passed or it is brought to effect through an Ordinance, these 23 offences will also become eligible for faceless resolution.#casansaar (Source - MCA, LiveMint)
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