A Treasurer’s Guide to TDS on Apartment Associations

What is TDS? TDS stands for tax deducted at source. As per the Income Tax Act, any company or person making a payment is required to deduct tax at source if the payment exceeds certain threshold limits. Is TDS applicable for Co-operative Housing Societies and Apartment Associations? Yes. Under the Income Tax Act, a Cooperative […]

Five Quick Tips about Better Apartment Management

 Apartment management is becoming one of the most challenging jobs, with growing sizes of apartment complexes in India. With most of the members offering a voluntary service to their apartment residents as a management committee member, the personal life of an individual gets quite affected in dealing with apartment maintenance issues. At times it becomes […]

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Management Committees

7 Habits of Highly Effective Managing Committees | ApnaComplex – Better Apartment Management Conference from ApnaComplex ApnaComplex conducted a better apartment management conference on November 15, 2014. Better Apartment Management conference covered different aspects of managing apartments more efficiently and offered several useful tips for Managing Committees. Managing Apartment Complexes is a tough job – […]

Is controlling domestic help rates in apartments becoming essential?

Domestic help/maids have now become a necessity for almost all households in India. Presently, with both men and women working in the 9-5 shift or more, the basic household chores need to be taken care of by the maids, cooks, nannies, drivers etc. It becomes essential that you hire the right person for all these […]

Announcing Survey feature in ApnaComplex

In yet another first, ApnaComplex now has ability to conduct “Surveys” and gather detailed feedback on any aspect related to the society. Surveys offer ultimate flexibility for Committee Members to carefully consider various opinions in the community. This feature is available to all our users including the Free edition users. Administrators can create a Survey […]

Should Service Tax be collected from Members of Apartment Association?

Apartment Associations are liable to pay service tax to Government of India when one or more members of the association has contributed more than Rs. 5,000/- per month to the association (refer this post for clarity). As per the law, the liability is on the Society to remit service tax – irrespective of the society […]

The Uttar Pradesh Apartment Act 2010, Rules and Model Bye-Laws

Below are copies of different official documents for apartment communities of Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Apartment (PROMOTION OF CONSTRUCTION, OWNERSHIP AND MAINTENANCE) Act, 2010 from ApnaComplex Uttar Pradesh Apartment (PROMOTION OF CONSTRUCTION, OWNERSHIP AND MAINTENANCE) Act Rules, 2010 from ApnaComplex Model Bye-Laws for Uttar Pradesh Apartment Owners Assocations from ApnaComplex Want to manage your apartment […]