{"id":197,"date":"2023-12-20T07:17:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/?p=197"},"modified":"2023-12-20T07:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:26:04","slug":"full-application-of-penalties-for-failure-to-file-annual-returns-by-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/2023\/12\/20\/full-application-of-penalties-for-failure-to-file-annual-returns-by-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Application of Penalties for Failure to File Annual Returns by Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By 1<sup>st<\/sup> January 2024, the Corporate Affairs Commission (the \u201cCommission\u201d) will commence the enforcement of penalties for non-compliance with the filing of annual returns. In its Public Notice of November 2<sup>nd<\/sup> 2023, the Commission stated that as from that date, the penalties prescribed by the Companies Regulations against a company and each of its directors and officers shall be applied fully by the Commission for failure to file annual returns. <a href=\"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Compliance-Update-Filing-Annual-Returns-.pdf\">Click here to read the full publication.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 1st January 2024, the Corporate Affairs Commission (the \u201cCommission\u201d) will commence the enforcement of penalties for non-compliance with the filing of annual returns. In its Public Notice of November 2nd 2023, the Commission stated that as from that date, the penalties prescribed by the Companies Regulations against a company and each of its directors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/2023\/12\/20\/full-application-of-penalties-for-failure-to-file-annual-returns-by-companies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Full Application of Penalties for Failure to File Annual Returns by Companies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[56,55,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}