{"id":250647,"date":"2023-07-04T19:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=250647"},"modified":"2023-07-04T19:27:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:57:25","slug":"political-parties-can-now-file-financial-statements-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/political-parties-can-now-file-financial-statements-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Political parties can now file financial statements online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cPolitical parties can now file financial statements online\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB on 3rd July 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Election Commission of India (ECI) has launched a new web portal to allow political parties to file their financial accounts online.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the purpose of launching an online facility for filing financial statements by Political parties?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The online facility for filing financial statements by political parties has been created with twin objectives:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013<\/span><b> Firstly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to facilitate political parties in overcoming the difficulties in physical filing of reports and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <\/span><b>Secondly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to ensure timely filing of financial statements in the prescribed or standardized formats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the financial reports political parties have to file online?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political Parties need to file a Contribution<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Report, Audited Annual Account, and Election Expenditure Statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These financial statements are required to be submitted by political parties to the Election Commission\/Chief Electoral Officers of States\/Union Territories, as per the Representation of People\u2019s Act, 1951 &amp; transparency guidelines issued by the Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The portal also has a facility for sending reminder messages on the registered mobile number and registered emails of the authorized representatives of the political party so that the dates of compliances are not missed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What happens if the political party does not want to file <\/b><b>their financial accounts online?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The political parties not willing to file the financial report through online mode will have to convey the reasons to the Commission in writing. Then, it may continue to file its reports in hard copy along with CDs\/Pen drives in the prescribed formats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commission will in turn publish all such reports online, along with a letter of justification sent by the party for not filing financial statements online.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPolitical parties can now file financial statements online\u201d published in PIB on 3rd July 2023 What is the News? The Election Commission of India (ECI) has launched a new web portal to allow political parties to file their financial accounts online. What is the purpose of launching&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/political-parties-can-now-file-financial-statements-online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Political parties can now file financial statements online<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-250647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}