Archive for July, 2009

The Powai police has arrested a chartered accountant (CA) for cheating the owner of a leading pharmaceuticals company, Genom Biotech Pvt Ltd, of Rs 40 lakh. After the fraud, the accused had resigned from his job to avoid getting caught, said the police. The 34-year-old chartered accountant, Rajesh Ranjan, and the owner of GBPL at [...] Full Article

`Happy to help you’ may remind you of the famous ad of a private telecom services company, but the Income Tax (I-T) department is also eager to tell large corporate taxpayers roughly the same thing.So, client executives and relationship managers — so far confined to the private sector and especially service providers — have now [...] Full Article

Companies Act, 1956 A company is required to maintain its books of account and vouchers for a period of 8 years immediately preceding the current year. Licensed Companies u/s 25 of The Companies Act, 1956 is required to maintain its books of account and vouchers for a period of not less than 4 years. The [...] Full Article

SEBI/CFD/DIL/LA/2/2009/21/7 July 21, 2009 The Managing Director/ Executive Director/ Administrator of all the Stock Exchanges Dear Sir/Madam, Sub.: Amendments to the Equity Listing Agreement 1. It has been decided to amend the Equity Listing Agreement to prohibit listed companies from issuing shares with superior rights as to voting or dividend vis-à-vis the rights on equity [...] Full Article

The Securities and Exchange Board of India, the markets watchdog, has done away with a no-delivery period for all types of corporate actions for scrips that are traded in the compulsory dematerialised mode and accordingly, short deliveries, if any. During corporate announcements like bonus or dividend, shares of that company were under a no-delivery period. [...] Full Article

The Supreme Court will decide whether mutual fund brokers can resort to a process (dividend stripping) of creating a short-term loss to avoid tax. A Bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia has issued notice broking firms on a batch of petitions filed by the income-tax department challenging the Bombay High Court judgment that a broker [...] Full Article

Announcement for November 2009 examinations Professional Competence Examinations It is clarified that in Part –II : Service tax and VAT of Paper 5 : Taxation, students will not be tested on specific questions covering individual taxable services. Integrated Professional Competence Examinations It is clarified that in Part –II : Service tax and VAT of Paper [...] Full Article

TAXATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS  {PRESS NOTE, DATED 10-7-2009)LLP is a new corporate form that enables professional expertise and entrepreneurial initiative to combine, organize and operate in an innovative and efficient manner. In India, this need has long been recognised for businesses which may require a framework that provides flexibility suited to requirements of service, [...] Full Article