Now shifting of registered office from one State to another State under the Companies Act, 1956, requires a petition to be filed with Regional Director, Ministry of Corporate Affairs with effect from 12-08-2012 and earlier the same was required to be made to Company Law Board. The procedure for making the petition under Section 17 [...]

CS Kiran Mukadam, ACS, M.Com, SET Hercules Hoists Limited, Mumbai Since the emergence of various corporate scandals in India over the past few years, there has been much attention and debate on the role of Company’s Directors. There has been a lot of focus on independent Directors. A Director must be acted honestly and with [...]

Based on an assessment of the current and prospective macroeconomic situation, we have decided to reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points from 7.5 per cent to 7.25 per cent.

Department of Sales Tax, Maharashtra State has displayed the return periodicity for the FY 2013-14 on their website. Enter your VAT TIN No. in the first box with ending V and click SEARCH. After result is displayed, click on the TIN No. appearing below.  To check your periodicity, visit mahavat.gov.in

The Board of directors of the company shall have an optimum combination of executive and non-executive directors with not less than fifty percent of the board of directors comprising of non-executive directors.

1.      Reference to FEMA, 1999 in the place of FERA, 1973/ FERA, 1947 under the Income-tax Act, 1961 Even after repeal of Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973, the Income-tax Act, 1961 continued to make a reference to the said Act in many of its sections, for example, section 10(4)(ii), 10(4B), etc. In order to correct [...]

Sub-section (4) of 90 and 90A provides that treaty benefit will not be available to any Non Resident unless he furnishes TRC from the Government of his country of residence containing such particulars as may be prescribed. The Finance Bill, 2013 had proposed to insert sub-section (5) in sections 90 and 90A to provide that [...]

 LOK SABHA THE FINANCE BILL, 2013 [As introduced in Lok .Sabha] Notice of Amendments SHRI P.CHIDAMBARAM: 1. Page 2, line 31 for”194LC”, substitute “194I LC, 194LD”. 2. Page 6, after line 13, insert— 3A (New) – Substitution of reference of certain expression by other expression    3A. In the Income-tax Act, for the expression “the [...]

No requirement to obtain TAN by transferee deducting tax under section 194-IA Section 194-IA was proposed to be inserted by the Finance Bill, 2013 to provide for deduction of tax at source@1% on consideration for transfer of immovable property, other than agricultural land. However, no tax is to be deducted if the consideration for transfer [...]

The Commodities transaction tax is proposed to be introduced in a limited way by insertion of Chapter VII in the Finance Bill, 2013. The Finance Minister, in his budget speech, had clarified that trading in commodity derivatives will not be considered as a speculative transaction. However, no amendment was proposed to this effect by the [...]