Ernst and Young

This Tax Alert summarizes a recent ruling of the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) in the case of Ernst and Young Pvt. Ltd. (Applicant) on the taxability of payments made for support services provided by an affiliate in the UK to the Applicant. The AAR held that the provision of support services does not 'make available' any technology to the Applicant and, hence, the payments made are not taxable in India as 'fees for technical services' (FTS) under the India-UK tax t.. Full Article

The Big Four – KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst and Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers – are in a fray for snapping up the consultant’s job for the Unique Identification Authority of India’s UID project. These four have cleared the first two rounds of evaluation to reach the technical evaluation stage along with three other companies which include Booz & Allen, PA Consulting and Capgemini. Full Article

The Government will soon be empowered to swiftly incorporate in the Companies Act any changes in accounting standards through the rules governing the Act. It will not have to go through the long process of amending the Act. Full Article

Accounting regulator ICAI has asked the auditors of Maytas Properties and Maytas Infra to reply to the notices sent to them by the body within 30 days. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) sent them notices after the Government moved the Company Law Board to supersede the boards of these companies on charges [...] Full Article

PricewaterhouseCoop ers (PwC), which is facing a multiple-agency probe within the country for its “unreliable” audit of Satyam Computer Services leading to a Rs 7,000-crore accounting scandal, holds a further risk of being quizzed by US accounting regulator in India, said Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) president Ved Jain. For this, the Public [...] Full Article