voting rights

The forthcoming budget may contain provisions for taxing the undistributed dividend of foreign corporations that are controlled or owned by Indian companies. Controlled Foreign Corporations (CFCs) laws enable the authorities to tax the income of a resident derived from a foreign corporation. This is irrespective of whether the profit/dividend of the foreign entity is transferred to India or not. Full Article

Consolidated Financial Statements shall be prepared by an entity if it has control over another entity. ‘Control’ under IFRS, being power to govern the financial and operating policies, covers within its purview even those entities that have been excluded under Indian GAAP. This article attempts to analyse the meaning and scope of the term — Potential Voting Rights — when determining control. Full Article

The new Bill, which is likely to come up in the Budget session in 2010, proposes no cap on the remuneration of CEOs, letting the shareholders decide the issue. Thanks to the Companies Law Bill 2009, the expression ‘shareholders’ democracy’ is gaining in popularity. The Government argues that shareholders should have a say in deciding the managerial remuneration. But what does shareholders democracy actually mean? Full Article

1.      The Companies Bill 2009, contains 426 sections as against the existing 658 sections.  The reduction of 232 sections in the Bill has been made possible by the power to make more than 200 Rules. IN  UK the Companies Act has 1,300 sections and 16 schedules. The obsession with cutting down on the size at [...] Full Article