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Section 69 does not provide any guideline about the extent and length of the discretionary power given to AO in the matter of treating the investment as income which is unexplained or unsatisfactorily explained by the investor-assessee. Therefore, Assessing Officer is expected to appreciate the reasonable explanation offered to him, the evidences produced before him about the nature and source of investment and he can not make the addition merely on surmises, conjectures.. Full Article

The market regulator SEBI on Monday asked mutual fund companies to make all the disclosures about market risks involved in the products more prominent in their communication. "To make these statements more prominent, it is advised that the disclosures as stated in the clauses 10, 13 and 14 of schedule VI of SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations of 1996 on Advertisement Code shall be printed in bold," the regulator said in a circular here today. Full Article

ULIP’s are basically long term investment. But despite being Long Term in nature they are Return Maximizing tool. The return is maximized through the well known option provided itself in the ULIP product SWITCHES. Each Ulip comes with a Switch Option giving opportunity to the policy holder to manage his funds and maximize the Returns over the Long term. Full Article

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has asked asset management companies (AMCs) not to compel investors to get no-objection certificates (NoCs) from their existing distributors for shifting their investments. Full Article

The Revenue Department, which scrutinises all foreign investments from the tax angle, has asked the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to ensure that FDI applicants furnish three years audited financial statements of the investor.Such disclosures will be useful to determine the source of funds as also to assess the ability of the actual and the immediate investor to make such investments. Full Article

Capital market regulator SEBI has tightened key clauses in the client-broker agreement, as part of its attempts to curb the misuse of client money by brokers. In a circular on Thursday, SEBI said stock brokers should maintain a book containing all the mandatory and non-mandatory documents required for registering a client. Full Article

In a move to help investors by giving them more time to file arbitration applications, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Wednesday decided to compute the limitation period for arbitration from the end of the quarter during which the disputed transaction was executed. So far, the period was computed from the day the transaction had happened. Full Article

Press Note No. 7 (2009), dated 26-9-20091. Government of India had laid the guidelines for foreign investment in Commodity Exchanges vide Press Note 2(2008) dated 12th March 2008. As per the guidelines, a composite ceiling for foreign investment of 49% was allowed with prior Government approval, subject to the condition that investment under the Portfolio [...] Full Article