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As per the Companies Act, 2013 and Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) Rules, 2019, on a repatriation /non-repatriation basis, whenever the company issues capital instruments to persons outside India, there are essential compliances to be adhered to by the companies.
Let’s discuss these compliances; there are two types of reporting compliances to be done by companies:
Reporting to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA)
Form & Requirement: Whenever a company with a share capital makes any allotment of securities, it shall file a return of allotment in Form PAS-3 with the Registrar. The time limit of filing: Form PAS-3 is to be filed within 30 days from the issuance of securities.
Description & process in the form of PAS-3, we have to report the details such as:
This e-Form should be mandatorily certified by a chartered accountant (in whole-time practice) or cost accountant (in whole-time practice), or company secretary (in whole-time practice) by digitally signing the e-Form. After preparing the form, we have to upload the form on the MCA website and file the same after payment of requisite fees.
Reporting to Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Form & requirement an Indian company issuing capital instruments to a person resident outside India and where such issue is reckoned as Foreign Direct Investment, for these regulations, shall report such issue in form FC-GPRto the regional office concerned of the Reserve Bank under whose jurisdiction the registered office of the company.
Below are the modes of issuance of securities covered here:
The time limit of filing:Form FC-GPR is to be filed within 30 days from the issue of capital instruments. Description & Process: Let’s understand the process practically. To proceed with FC-GPR reporting, we have to first prepare logins on the Firms portal of RBI.
There are two types of logins to be created:
Entity user login is basically for the creation/ registration of an entity with RBI. Business user login is for filing the various forms with RBI. Below mentioned are details required to be reported in form FC-GPR:
Along with these details, several documents are required to be attached to this form. For instance:
The AD Bank, i.e. Authorized Dealer Bank, will deal with verifying this form and related documents on behalf of RBI. After verifying the form and documents, AD Bank will inform whether the form has been approved or rejected along with its remarks. If AD Bank has rejected the form, we have to prepare a fresh form again and submit it after considering the remarks/ requirements given by AD Bank.
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