Archive for October, 2009

There may be instances where the customer has given a mandate for crediting the interest on Fixed Deposit account to the Savings Bank account and there are no other operations in the Savings Bank account. Some doubts have arisen whether such an account is to be treated as inoperative account after two years. Full Article

After the introduction of the e returns, the dealers were required to make the payment of tax within the prescribed date, but were permitted to upload the e returns within 10 days from the due date prescribed in the said Rule 17 (Please refer Trade Circular No 16T of 2008) Thus the dealers, who paid the tax within the due date and upload the e return within the aforesaid period shall not be treated as late filers. Full Article

The Reserve Bank of India will soon issue guidelines on meeting provisioning rules and some banks have sought time to meet them, its deputy governor Shyamala Gopinath said on Friday. "Banks have made certain submissions to us in the policy, in terms of little more time. We are going to come up with guidelines soon," Gopinath said. Full Article

The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, on Friday hinted at some slippage to the scheduled Goods and Services Tax (GST) system rollout by April 1, 2010. Introduction of the GST, billed as a flagship tax reform measure of the UPA Government, is considered crucial for attracting increased doses of domestic and foreign investments. Full Article

A special court will be established in Hyderabad for the trial of the Satyam scam. The decision has been taken as per the recommendations of the AP High Court and the Deputy Inspector General of the Central Bureau of Investigation at Hyderabad. Ever since the chargesheet was filed against Satyam founder-chairman B Ramalinga Raju and other accused in connection with the Satyam scam in April 2009, the trial has been going on at the XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistr.. Full Article

The Income Tax department has issued a detailed notice today (comprising 531 pages along with annexure running into 1901 pages) under section 201(1) and 201(1A) of the IT Act 1961 to Vodafone International Holdings BV(VIH BV) requiring it to show cause as to why it should not be held that the Department has competent jurisdiction to proceed against it for the default of non-deduction of tax at source from the payment of USD 11.2 billion made on 8th May 2007 to Hutchison .. Full Article

In layman’s language, a treaty is a formally concluded agreement between two or more independent nations. The Oxford Companion to Law defines a treaty as “an international agreement, normally in written form, passing under various titles (treaty, convention, protocol, covenant, charter, pact, statute, act, declaration, concordat, exchange of notes, agreed minute, memorandum of agreement) concluded between two or more states, on subject of international law intended t.. Full Article

References to budget can be found in Kautilya’s Arthashastra. It states that the Chancellor should first estimate revenue from each place and sphere of activity under different heads of accounts and then arrive at a grand total. The actual revenue is to be estimated by adding receipts into the treasury for current year and delayed payments received which were due in earlier year/s. Full Article