The chairman of Satyam Computer Services was arrested on Friday on charges of cheating and forgery, and the government dissolved the outsourcer’s board as authorities moved to limit fallout from India’s biggest corporate scandal. Chairman Ramalinga Raju, who resigned on Wednesday after revealing years of accounting fraud, was expected to appear before the market regulator […]
However, the mere fact that the agreement was not an agency agreement is not a decisive factor as to the taxability of the amount received on termination of the agreement. Even if the agreement was not an agency agreement and it was a simple contract, the amount received on termination of the Contract can still be taxed as a revenue receipt. Merely because it does not come
New Delhi: A woman assistant commissioner of income tax has been arrested by the CBI in a graft case after she was allegedly caught taking a bribe of Rs 2 lakh for accepting I-T returns of a firm. CBI officials said K Chandrika, posted in Bangalore, had demanded Rs 10 lakh for accepting returns filed […]
THE Income Tax department raided the premises of Dr Sanjay Shah, Dr Mahesh Thakkar, his wife Dr Bindu Thakkar and some of their colleagues, and recovered Rs 1.75 crore cash from them on Wednesday and Thursday. Following a tip-off, the I-T team raided Shraddha Polyclinic at Ganesh Gawade road, Mulund (west), run by Shah and […]
Over four mn employees affiliated to over 2,500 private provident funds face the threat of losing income tax benefits on their PF contributions, as the government seems to be having second thoughts over giving these bodies permanent recognition. Taking a plea that privately-run PFs are violating investment accounting norms, the Labour Ministry is not inclined […]
The Satyam fraud is not the sole brush with infamy for Pricewaterhouse, one of the world’s top auditing firms. Pricewaterhouse is already in deep trouble in relation to its suspect auditing of the collapsed Global Trust Bank, for which it is being probed by the disciplinary committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India […]
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will not spare the auditors of Satyam Computer Services if they are found to be guilty. It could even debar them from the profession. ICAI president Ved Jain said, “The disciplinary committee of the institute will lead the investigation and will ask for documents pertaining to Satyam’s […]
