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 office whether it is FCRA or Local.
Vikas Pandey
Dear Members,
Greetings..!!
Can you suggest me any article/sample audit/annual report explaining the
1) CSR Budgeting
2) CSR Financial Expenditure
when an Implementing Agency is involved in CSR Policy.
PS: Please suggest at earliest. I am aware of 2% expenditure and annual report format. But I need information on finance explained for every expenditure
Clarification Needed:
1) Company can show upto 5% of CSR Expenditure as Administrative Expenses (Skill Improvement is not included)
2) What percentage of CSR Expenditure can Implementing Agency show at maximum..??
Thanks
Harsha S
Program and Project Manager
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 fixed deposit. But bank manager told that they cannot credit the fixed deposit which is made out of foreign donation.
My question is that now that NGO wants to credit that FD in the same bank (XYZ bank). Is it possible to credit that FD in the same XYZ bank or they have to open separate account to utilize that fixed deposit donation.
Please reply to my email.
Thanks and Regards,
Anitha
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 be too hapyy.
Thanking you.
With Best regards,
Devendra Desai
Founder / Managing Trustee
Children Toy Foundation
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 start with.
I was going through your website and found discussion forum on various issues. I need one of my query addressed by your panel experts. Can you please put forth the query and request the expert to reply pls.
Q – we wish to mobilise some funds from abroad, for which we need prior permission under the FCRA since we are a new organisation. Prior permission is given for a specific contribution, for specific purpose and specific amount. So my query is that if for a particular project I have estimated an expense of say about Rs. 5 lacs which someone from the US is willing to donate. Can that money come in instalments or it has to come at one go??? Can this donor collect the said fund from various different individuals who are also US citizens willing to donate; create a pool and then donate it to us???
Awaiting for your kind reply.
Rgds.
Minal Shah
Trustee
Gyandeep Foundation
Dear Sir,
We have an FCRA registration in the name of Seminary Council Baptist Theological Seminary. We got renewal certificate. In the certificate, it is mentioned nature of association as Religious, but in the renewal application (FC-3) we had applied as Religous, Social & Education.
My query is can we receive funds for social activities and community development projects like sewing institutions and self-employment vocational training course for poor people through our organisation.
Thank you
Devasahayam Boni
Dear Friends,
Season’s Greetings from Hyderabad!
Please clarify latest position on FCRA certified NGOs giving consultancy contracts / paying service/consultancy fee to non-FCRA certified NGOs.
For ready reference: ” any fee / consultancy charge out of foreign funds received by FCRA registered NGOs paid for services to non-FCRA NGOs is not treated as foreign contribution fund. Pl refer to FCRA 2010, page 3, explanation 3″.
Please confirm validity of such a provision as of now.
Thanks,
Udayashankar
FCRA Dept, has recently come out with a Gazette Notification No. SO 2291 (E) dated 5 June 2018, which has completely revamped the compounding penalties under FCRA Act 2010, superseding earlier two Notifications (SO 1976(E) dt 26th Aug 2011 and SO 2133(E) dt 16th June 2016.
The new notification covers a large number of offences specified within the FCRA Act 2010 and seems to be quite comprehensive. Let us briefly look at these offences and penalties imposed.
| 1. | Acceptance of Foreign Hospitality without Prior Permission (S.6) | Rs 10,000/- | Not covered earlier |
| 2. | Transfer of FC to any other person who does not have registration or prior permission. (S.7) | Rs 1 lakh or 10% of trfd whichever is higher. | Not covered earlier. |
| 3. | Violating 50% limit on Admin Exps. (S. 8) | Rs 1 lakh or 5% of excess amount spent on Admin. whichever is higher. | Not covered earlier. |
| 4. | Accepting FC without registration or Prior Permission (S. 11) | Rs 1 lakh or 10% of amount so accepted whichever is higher. | Earlier this penalty was for 2%-5%, with minimum range from Rs 10k to Rs 1 lac, whichever higher. |
| 5a. | Accepting FC in any account other than designated account. | Rs 1 lakh or 5% of amount so accepted whichever is higher. |
-ditto-
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| 5b. | Non-reporting of such amount by banks and concerned entity. | Rs 1 lakh or 3% of amount so rec’d or deposited whichever is higher. | -ditto- |
| 5c. | Non-FCRA funds deposited in designated account. | Rs 1 lakh or 2% of amount so deposited whichever is higher. | Not covered earlier. |
| 6. | Non-intimation of receipt of FC as per S.18 | Rs 1 lakh or 5% of amount so rec’d during non-submission period, whichever is higher. | Not covered earlier. |
| 7. | Non-maintenance of account and records as per S.19 of the Act. | Rs 1 lakh or 5% of FC during non-maintenance period, whichever is higher. | Not covered earlier. |
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Socio Research & Reform Foundation (NGO)
512 A, Deepshikha, 8 Rajendra Place, New Delhi – 110008
FCRA Department has issued a notice to 3292 to organizations who have not filed their annual return for the period from 2011-12 to 2016-17.
As per this notice, all these organizations have been given a time limit of 15 days (i.e. till 8th May 2018) to submit their return. The status of the submission of annual return will be reviewed after 15 days of issue of the notice. If any organization failed to submit the same, penal action will be taken against them.
It may be noted that evn if you have not rec’d Foreign Contribution during the above years, nill return must be filed. You can download the list of all these organisations from the link given below.
Please help us in sharing this information widely amongst all NGOs. (click here for list of organisation)
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Socio Research & Reform Foundation (NGO)
512 A, Deepshikha, 8 Rajendra Place, New Delhi – 110008.
Dear Sir,
We have registered trust and national level managing body, we want change our trust committee,we
have 14 members and 05 members are not giving their PAN and ADHAR CARD but this is necessary for ngo
darpan,registrar is telling for registered new trust,he will not change our trust committee,please guide
us.what we should do?
Udit Narayan Shukla
