legal consultants

services provided by Chartered Accountants, Cost Accountants and Company Secretaries as well as by engineering and management consultants are presently charged to Service Tax. Although there is a school of thought that legal consultants do not provide any service to their client, I hold my distinguished predecessor in high esteem and disagree! As such, I propose to extend Service Tax on advice, consultancy or technical assistance provided in the field of law. This tax wo.. Full Article

The government has put its act together to see that the Company Law Board (CLB), the quasi-judicial body that gives verdicts on litigation and complaints that come under the purview of the Companies Act, gets a fresh set of members soon. This is in the backdrop of the arrest of R Vasudevan, the senior most CLB member, on November 24. This has left the board with just two members to hear the pending cases that run into thousands. Full Article

The legal consultants Handoo and Handoo have become the first Limited Liability Partnership firm of India, a new form of business structure where the partners’ liability is limited to the extent of their stake, introduced by the governemnt from April 1. Delhi-based R K Handoo and Associates is the first LLP that has opted for the LLP form of entity. [...] Full Article