- Sunday, January 17, 2010, 8:06
- Income Tax
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Inter-company loans, known as ‘deemed dividends’, are used by companies to route dividend in the form of loans to companies which have common shareholders — both in the company giving the loan and the one borrowing it. It is done to avoid paying dividend tax, otherwise paid by the company before it is distributed among shareholders by the I-T rule.
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- Saturday, December 5, 2009, 4:11
- Finance
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The 1988 Basel Capital Accord (“Basel I”) has been implemented as the capital adequacy standard for banks and has been adopted by more than 100 countries successfully. The fundamental objectives of the Accord were to strengthen the soundness and stability of the international banking system. Basel I, has been adopted by the leading industrialised nations as well as the emerging economies, including most in Asia.
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