The Central Board of Direct Taxes under the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India on 27th Sep 2023 notified the Form 6D for Inventory Valuation. The budget 2023 brought in provision with regard to the Inventory Valuation by Cost Accountants on the directions from the Income Tax Department under section 142(2A).
Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India has notified the amendment in the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 which mandates the directors to report on requirement and the maintenance of cost records under section 148 of the Companies Act 2013.
The government has started relying on the professional and has given certain certification powers to the professionals who are being regulated by the professional Institutes.
Though Companies Act mandated the maintenance of Cost Records and Cost Audit for companies fulfilling certain criteria, however, the companies used to ignore the mandate by simply mentioning in the Director's Report and CARO report that Section 148 is not applicable.
Through this article, we have tried to answer most of queries which a company can have with regard to cost records applicability or cost audit.
The CGST department was gearing up all these years and providing training to its officials to undertake GST scrutinies in a professional way and now it has come up with Standard Operating Procedure.
Through this note, an attempt has been made so that the readers could understand the overall structure of the Budget documents and areas one should immediately focus as finance/accounts/tax/costing person or as an economist.
It is important to note that the non-compliance is identified at the earliest by the management itself and appoint the cost auditors before the they receive the notice from the MCA.
Communication regarding Scrutiny of GST Data reads as - "GST scrutiny issues communicated by EIU for the period 2017-18 is forwarded herewith (find attachment) for your information.'
The pandemic has brought the focus on the importance of cost management of resources. In this article, we have answered queries which a company can have with regard to cost records applicability, or cost audit.
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