Company Law - Trf to general resrve
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12 September 2009
Is There any copulsion to pvt. ltd. company to transfer the profit to general reserve in case of profit.Is there any minimum proportion which must be provided?
12 September 2009
No there is no compulsion as such to transfer.
If you declare dividend then it is compulsory to transfer certain % of profit to the G.R.
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If you declare dividend then it is compulsory to transfer certain % of profit to the G.R.
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12 September 2009
Thanks Mr. Ankur
12 September 2009
Thanks for the gesture
12 September 2009
Continuing Mr.Garg, the details of the % mentioned therein can be read from "The Companies (Transfer of Profits to Reserves)Rules,1975".Reference may be made to section 205(2A) of The Companies Act,1956 also.
20 October 2009
As per Companies (Transfer of profit to Reserve) rules 1975, Percentage of profits to be transferred to reserves.
Sec.2. No dividend shall be declared or paid by a company for any financial year out of the profits of the company for that year arrived at after providing for depreciation in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 205 of the Act, except after the transfer to the reserves of the company of a percentage of its profits for that year as specified below :
(i) where the dividend proposed exceeds 10 per cent but not 12.5 per cent of the paid-up capital, the amount to be transferred to the reserves shall not be less than 2.5 per cent of the current profits;
(ii) where the dividend proposed exceeds 12.5 per cent but does not exceed 15 per cent of the paid-up capital, the amount to be transferred to the reserves shall not to be less than 5 per cent of the current profits;
(iii) where the dividend proposed exceeds 15 per cent but does not exceed 20 per cent of the paid-up capital the amount to be transferred to the reserves shall not be less than 7.5 per cent of the current profits; and
(iv) where the dividend proposed exceeds 20 per cent of the paid-up capital, the amount to be transferred to reserves shall not to be less than 10 per cent of the current profits.
Conditions governing voluntary transfer of a higher percentage.
3. Nothing in rule 2 shall be deemed to prohibit the voluntary transfer by a company of a percentage higher than 10 per cent of its profits to its reserves for any financial year, so however, that :
2[(i) Where a dividend is declared,—
(a) a minimum distribution sufficient for the maintenance of dividends to shareholders at a rate equal to the average of the rates at which dividends declared by it over the three years immediately preceding the financial year, or
(b) in a case where bonus shares have been issued in the financial year in which the dividend is declared or in the three years immediately preceding the financial year, a minimum distribution sufficient for the maintenance of dividends to shareholders at an amount equal to the average amount (quantum) of dividend declared over the three years immediately preceding the financial year,
is ensured :
Provided that in a case where the net profits after tax are lower by 20 per cent or more than the average net profits after tax of the two financial years immediately preceding, it shall not be necessary to ensure such minimum distribution,]
(ii) where no dividend is declared, the amount proposed to be transferred to its reserves from the current profits shall be lower than the average amount of the dividends to the shareholders declared by it over the three years immediately preceding the financial year.
Sec.2. No dividend shall be declared or paid by a company for any financial year out of the profits of the company for that year arrived at after providing for depreciation in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 205 of the Act, except after the transfer to the reserves of the company of a percentage of its profits for that year as specified below :
(i) where the dividend proposed exceeds 10 per cent but not 12.5 per cent of the paid-up capital, the amount to be transferred to the reserves shall not be less than 2.5 per cent of the current profits;
(ii) where the dividend proposed exceeds 12.5 per cent but does not exceed 15 per cent of the paid-up capital, the amount to be transferred to the reserves shall not to be less than 5 per cent of the current profits;
(iii) where the dividend proposed exceeds 15 per cent but does not exceed 20 per cent of the paid-up capital the amount to be transferred to the reserves shall not be less than 7.5 per cent of the current profits; and
(iv) where the dividend proposed exceeds 20 per cent of the paid-up capital, the amount to be transferred to reserves shall not to be less than 10 per cent of the current profits.
Conditions governing voluntary transfer of a higher percentage.
3. Nothing in rule 2 shall be deemed to prohibit the voluntary transfer by a company of a percentage higher than 10 per cent of its profits to its reserves for any financial year, so however, that :
2[(i) Where a dividend is declared,—
(a) a minimum distribution sufficient for the maintenance of dividends to shareholders at a rate equal to the average of the rates at which dividends declared by it over the three years immediately preceding the financial year, or
(b) in a case where bonus shares have been issued in the financial year in which the dividend is declared or in the three years immediately preceding the financial year, a minimum distribution sufficient for the maintenance of dividends to shareholders at an amount equal to the average amount (quantum) of dividend declared over the three years immediately preceding the financial year,
is ensured :
Provided that in a case where the net profits after tax are lower by 20 per cent or more than the average net profits after tax of the two financial years immediately preceding, it shall not be necessary to ensure such minimum distribution,]
(ii) where no dividend is declared, the amount proposed to be transferred to its reserves from the current profits shall be lower than the average amount of the dividends to the shareholders declared by it over the three years immediately preceding the financial year.
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