Category Archives: FCRA, TAX, LEGAL

In Dec’17 FCRA Department had ordered NGOs to open their FCRA bank account with the banks integrated with Govt PFMS system within one month of its notice dated 21/12/2017. Most NGOs opened or shifted their bank account to PFMS compliant … Continue reading →

Dear Sir, We are a Society registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860. Majorly, our receipts are GRANTs, both FCRA and non-FCRA. We are registered under GST. Want to know, whether GST applicable on a GRANT (both FCRA and non-FCRA grants)? … Continue reading →

Good afternoon I wanted to know if an NGO whose FCRA is under renewal, can they continue to receive FC money. Thanks Sharad

In May 2017 and again in April 2018, FCRA Department issued a public notice ‎asking NGOs to submit missing annual returns online from 2010-11 to 2014-‎‎15 without payment of any penalty. However, many NGOs still have not ‎complied with the … Continue reading →

Dear Sir/ Madam, PO has been raised by an NGO for printing documents to a printing agency and in this PO the shipment address is mentioned outside Delhi and the billing address is mentioned as Delhi because vendor belongs to … Continue reading →

Ministry of Finance has come out with a Circular (No. 66/40/2018) dt 26 Sep ‎‎2018 stating that entity registered under S.12AA for the purposes of ‎advancement of spirituality, religious activities or yoga’ would not be subjected ‎to GST on any … Continue reading →

Dear Members, Is it possible for a Trust (NGO) to open a branch office outside India, If required modification can be done in Trust deed? We can take assumption that we’ll not use any funds raised in India for that … Continue reading →

Dear Members, Good Morning I have a query that if any NGO who received Foreign dontion from their foreign donor to their FCRA account (XYZ bank). With that donation they prepared fixed deposits. But now they want to utilize that … Continue reading →

Sir, I had read in one of your answers that under CSR cos can donate to corpus fund ? is it true?Under what section of the act ?whatever details we can get from your forum we will like others will … Continue reading →

Hello, We are a registered public charitable trust based at vadodara, Gujarat. We are established with a purpose of financing education of economically backward children who wish to study. We have already sponsored college education of 3 girl child to … Continue reading →