Archive for 2010

The government is likely to usher in the New Year with some important policy reforms. Important foreign direct investment (FDI) policy announcements is likely to be made in January 2011, reports sources. It is learnt that FDI policy is likely to be Full Article

U.S. bank Citigroup said on Tuesday it was investigating a set of suspicious transactions based on what it said were forged documents by an employee at a branch in India. The bank did not say how much money was involved, but a person familiar with th Full Article

Cricketer Harbhajan Singh, currently spinning misery on the South African team, seems to have been caught by the central excise and service tax department for defaulting on service tax. The department has found that he owes nearly Rs 1 crore as servi Full Article

The revenue department of the finance ministry estimates that Corporate India could have evaded over Rs 20,000 crore in taxes in 2007-08 had it shown mark-to-market losses on forex derivative transactions. According to the income tax department, in t Full Article

RBI/2010-11/342 DPSS.CO.OSD. No. 1381 /06.08.001/ 2010-2011, December 27, 2010 To All entities authorised to issue pre paid payment instruments in India. Dear Sir, Collection of Statistics on pre-paid instruments Please refer to the approval / authorization given / issued to you for issuance and operations of pre paid payment instruments under the Payment and Settlement Systems [...] Full Article

RBI/2010-11/341 DPSS.CO.OSD. No. 1445 /06.12.001/ 2010-2011 December 27, 2010 To All Scheduled Commercial Banks / Authorised Payment System Operators Dear Sir, Issuance and operation of Prepaid Payment Instruments in India –Auditor Certificate on the balances in Escrow account Please refer to Para 7.3. of the policy Guidelines DPSS.CO.PD.No. 1873 /02.14.06/ 2008-09 dated April 27, 2009 [...] Full Article

RBI/2010-11/340 DPSS.CO.OSD. No. 1444 /06.11.001/2010-2011 December 27, 2010 To All Scheduled Commercial Banks / Authorised Payment System Operators Dear Sir, Directions for submission of system audit reports from CISA qualified Auditor Please refer to our circular Ref No. DPSS.1206/ 02.27.005/2009-10 dated 7th December 2009 on the captioned subject. 2.   All authorised entities are advised to [...] Full Article

RBI/2010-11/339 DPSS.CO.OSD. No. 1448/06.08.001/2010-2011 December 28, 2010 To All Scheduled Commercial Banks Dear Sir, Directions for opening and operation of Accounts and settlement of payment for electronic payment transactions involving intermediaries Please refer to our circular Ref no. 1381/06.08.001/2010-11 dated December 20, 2010 on the captioned subject. 2. In continuation of the above directions, please [...] Full Article