25 May 2013
I MEAN TO SAY IS COMPANY OR HUF ALLOWED TO BE OWNER OF PROPRIETORSHIP FIRM OR NOT ???? IN MOST OF THE CASES WE SEE INDIVIDUAL PERSON IS THE OWNER OF PROPRIETORSHIP FIRM BUT CAN AN HUF BE THE OWNER OF PROPRIETORSHIP FIRM ????
25 May 2013
HUF can be a proprietor of a proprietorship concern. The rubber stamp would read as For ABC Proprietorship Concern, XYZ Huf, Karta, Proprietor. Keep the space between the name of the concern and the name of the HUF for the signature of the Karta. Please take care that you only do organised business for the HUF with HUF funds that do not require your personal skills (eg. of organised business are trading, manufacturing in an organised manner). In short you can also be a service provider in an organised manner where funds belonging to the HUF are deployed as capital (car hire, equipment leasing etc. even running courier service as that is also an organised activity). Avoid activities like commission agents, brokerage etc. or consultancy or professions etc. that require more of your own personal skills.
01 June 2013
Company can use a trade name and also open account in its own name and indicating to bank that it will receive cheques in that trade name and can account it as a separate business that is part of its business income. I have seen invoices as
TRADENAME Prop ABC Pvt. Ltd.
Director But that was quite sometime back and I would not know about change in rules.