Entries by Jahir Mansuri
FCRA Annual Return Form FC4 Date Extended
FCRA department has extended due date of Filling FC4 form – Annual Return from 31st December 2015 to 15th March 2016 for the financial year 2014-15. As recently, FCRA Amendments Rules 2015 has been notified, all forms are changed and online filling is now mandatory. In the light of this changes, FCRA department has extended […]
FCRA New Rules 2015
From 14th December 2015, FCRA new rules comes into force. Ministry of Home Affairs, FCRA department has issued this notification. The first and major impact of such notification is to file FCRA renewal form again. Read this blog for more details. Here we are trying to understand the changes in Rule,2015 through some graphical presentations. […]
Be Ready to fill Renewal of FCRA again
New Notification by FCRA On 14th December, FCRA department has issued a notification regarding filling Renewal of FCRA form. You can download this notification here. Let me summarize this notification – All the earlier application sent manually in Form FC-5 is now void. Need to apply again for renewal. New Form is FC-3 – (Go […]
FCRA Dos and Don’ts
FCRA Dos and Don’ts As a crucial Act, an organization should take utmost care regarding FCRA. However, many myths prevails regarding what should be “Dos” and “Donts” regarding FCRA. Ministry of Home Affairs have clearly issued advisory in regard to this. You can download PDF from here. We try to make it simple and in […]
FCRA Renewal Status
How do we know, what is the status of application of FCRA renewal ? This is the question, every organization is asking now a days. Yes, we all are waiting regarding any communication from MHA, FCRA department regarding FCRA renewal status. What is current scenario? As per our knowledge, no organization, throughout India has received […]
FCRA and Administrative Expenses
Excess Administrative Expenses – one of the reason to cancel FCRA Registration FCRA department may cancel your organization registration if you have excessive Administrative and Salary Expenses. Last month, FCRA Department has cancelled registration of SABRANG Trust. In the order regarding cancellation, one of the findings is, administrative expenses were excessive than permitted by FCRA […]
Immediately update your NGO details on FCRA portal
Making all FCRA services online FCRA department is in the process of making all the procedures online. (read this blog), previously asked NGOs to have digital signatures of Chief Functionary. Yesterday, FCRA department has issued notification dated July 28, 2015 (download it from here) stating that in order to making all FCRA services online, instructed […]
FC Grant Now exempt from Charity Contribution – Gujarat
Gujarat Government published in the Official Gazette on May 20, 2015 (Download it from here) regarding change in Gujarat Public Trust Act, 1950 and these rules may be called the “Bombay Public Trust (Gujarat) (Amendments) Rules, 2015. One of the major welcome change is to consider Foreign Grant as deduction for calculation of Charity Contribution. […]
Do you have any grievances related to FCRA ?
Do you have any grievances related to FCRA ? . The answer to this question is YES, then you can now meet Director (FCRA) in Foreigners Division of Ministry of Home Affairs. FCRA department has issued a circular recently stating monthly meeting by Director (FCRA) on 5th of every month for redress of organization’s grievances […]
