Hello Experts -

This is a question from a lay person regading the recently (CG-DL-E-15082026-275490) introduced FAST-DS 2026 scheme.
Here it mentions that any money paid by a declarant via the scheme (fee/penalty etc for disclosure) is non refundable, cant be set off etc.
Question:
For person declaring a bank a/c under this scheme, the requiement is 'Sum of all deposits'. A person who had this a/c a decade ago was informed by the foreign bank that the retention policy meant that the statements are only available after 2018.
The rules just ask for supporting documentation but theres no room for variation when reporting 'sum of all deposit' for bank account, an alternative was not provided in the rules. (though it was provided during a similar scheme in 2015) ie, Question 5. https://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/documents/d/guest/circular15_2015-pdf

Main part -
SInce there's no refund, & no mention of a provision/mechanism (like e-campaign for taxes) for a declarant to answer queries that the dept might have about a declaration made by a person., the person has no alternative but to declare pay the amount and then hope it is approved (since there;s no mention of 'Best estimate' alternate for 'sum of all deposits' like the scheme in 2015)?
From the way it is framed (atleast to a lay person) it looks like there's no support or explanation mechanism mentioned in the scheme for edge cases, so after paying the dialog is closed and if it is rejected for whatever reason, the person filing wont know the reason and most importantly the money will be lost.
Can an expert or someone who is reasonably familiar with law-speak please reply if this is as rigid and recourseless as it appears to be.

Thanks in advance for your expertise

A query regarding FCRA.
1. When we registered we had to upload affidavit of all members and their designation with notary ( format Proforma AA in portal which is to be edited by us)
2. When the signing authority had changed only their affidavit where to be uploaded last year.
3. This year again we have made changes in signing authority, but automatically each person formats gets generated with all details which is to be uploaded in portal back with notary.
My question is should we only upload the signing authority affidavit or all the members affidavit as it gets generated automatically according to change made by them.

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Sir
Can a CA/CS/CMA Firm place their profile in a public website?
Does it amount to professional misconduct on ground of "advertising / soliciting to prospective clients?
Regards
Abhijit

Sir
One Pvt Ltd Company import spare parts from singapur. Latter it was found that a good number of spares are defective and so rejected. The indian company(importer) inform the Singapur Company about this fact.The Singapur company in turn wave the entire sale price due from Indian Pvt company(importer).
My query is what is the compliance required to comply under RBI/FEMA exclusively?

There is no problem in compliance in accounts and Income Tax Part .
Regards
Abhijit

Sir
One govt corporation (say A)given a building to another Govt owned corporation(say B) on permissive possession basis.
'A 'claim rent on that building given to 'B'.
My query is can A claim rent from B on that building given on permissive possession basis?
If they claim 'Rent' can it be treated as 'Rent''?
Actually what is the legal status of 'Permissive Possession'?
Regards
Abhijit

I am planning to incorporate an LLP in Gujarat to operate three distinct, non-related business verticals: a Travel Agency, a Cloud Kitchen, and an E-commerce business (Selling products on Amazon/Flipkart). All three will be managed by the same partners under a single parent entity.
My accounting firm has advised that it is not legally possible to run such non-related businesses under one LLP and recommends incorporating three separate LLPs instead.
I need clarification on the following:
1. Is there any specific provision in the LLP Act, 2008 that prohibits a single LLP from carrying out multiple unrelated business activities if they are all explicitly mentioned in the Object Clause of the LLP Agreement? [1, 2]
2. If I include all three activities in the 'Main Objects,' will the MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) typically reject the incorporation for lack of interrelation? [1]
3. Operationally, can I use a single PAN to obtain multiple GST registrations (different vertical-based GSTINs) for these distinct activities under one LLP? [1]

Dear Sir,
My Grand father did Investment in financial company in 1985 in Jersey UK. now that company is liquidated and I have received some fund as dividend and big amount of fund as shareholder's stake agaist investment in India . I am resident Indian.

We had intimated to RBI in 1985 about our investment and RBI issued us certificate in 1985 for said investment.

My bank is not crediting fund in my Bank account and asking to submit FC form . I have submitted all document which is proving our investment did in 1985.

I have checked on google FC form is not applicable to me. Just my bank (AD) has to inform RBI about received fund only.

Please advise whot process I have to follow up?

Thanking you
Girish Limbachiya

I did my registration on 6th Nov 2024 but didn't file any returns of esic as i registered due to some tender work. Now in Jul 2026 i want to add 22 members from 01.04.2026. These are already registered employees of esic and have their IP number, wat are the actions should i take on my end so that i could get them registered under me in esic as the portal doesn't allow me to register a employee after 10 days of appointment. Also, should i need to file a nil return for all these months that I'm registered.

Kindly update what we can mention on our sale invoice in present tax year for no tds deduction in case of software sold without any modification as per new income tax code, As in and till previous income tax code we all mention on invoice the notification number “CBDT Notification No. 21/2012 eliminates multi-level TDS deductions on standardized software. It exempts buyers from deducting TDS under Section 194J if tax was already deducted on an earlier transfer and the software is resold without modification, provided a PAN-backed declaration is obtained from the seller.”
Kindly share the information to mention on invoice as per new income tax code