India’s insurance regulator will seek the opinion of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) before changing the format of the valuation balance sheet, or Form I, as demanded by private insurers, a top official said. Earlier, the private insurers in the country, through their representative body Life Insurance Council, had approached the Insurance Regulatory […]
Citing a need for legal knowledge and skills, banks have shot down a proposal by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to allow chartered accountants to appear before the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) to plead cases. The debt tribunal was set up to adjudicate bank recovery suits. It works in lieu of civil […]
The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India at its 286th meeting held on March 8, 2009 cleared two more Standards on Auditing (SAs), i.e., Revised SA 500, Audit Evidence and SA 720, The Auditor’s Responsibility in Relation to Other Information in Documents Containing Audited Financial Statements in the direction of enhancing the […]
Instruction No. 2/2009, dated 9-3-2009 Section 10B of the Income tax Act provides for exemption of income in case of hundred per cent export oriented undertakings subject to prescribed conditions. Explanation 2 (iv) below to the said section defines a “hundred percent export oriented undertaking” as an undertaking so approved by the Board appointed in […]
