With global and political will turned against tax havens, New Delhi is looking to turn the heat on Mauritius and Cyprus to amend tax treaties with these countries or bring in anti-abuse provisions in their local laws.
LLP Act comes into effect from 01.04.2009 but legal and tax hurdles remain The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has started registering firms under the newly-enacted Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Act. However, a flow of applications is unlikely till tax laws are changed, say experts. At present, the Income Tax Act does not recognise LLP […]
In a significant development, former Satyam Computer CFO Vadlamani Srinivas has told representatives of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) — the apex regulatory body for chartered accountants in India — that auditors S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas of audit firm Price Waterhouse had no role to play in the fraud, as they […]
There is no ready evidence that the jailed Price Waterhouse (PW) auditors in the Satyam Computer Services scandal had also colluded, says Uttam Prakash Agarwal, president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). They and the former chief financial officer of Satyam, Vadlamani Srinivas, seemed to have acted on the instructions of Satyam […]
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Whereas the draft regulations further to amend the Cost and Works Accountants Regulations, 1959, were published as required by sub-section (3) of Section 39 of the Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959 (23 of 1959) in the Gazette of India, Part III, Section 4, dated the 6th November, 2008 vide number CWR(2) 2008, inviting objections and suggestions from all persons likely to be affected thereby before the expiry of 45 days from the date on which copies of the said Gazette were made available to the public;
Background The Central Board of Direct Taxes (“CBDT”) has issued notifications amending the rules in relation to compliance procedures as follows: • Forms for furnishing information to the income-tax department by a person responsible for making payments to a non-resident / foreign company. • Withholding tax or tax deducted at source (“TDS”) / tax collected […]
A recent notification issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CDBT), the apex body on direct tax matters, is likely to widen the tax base by bringing in even small service providers. That is because the notification, which will be effective from April 1, says that the TDS form should contain the Permanent Account […]
Apex accounting body ICAI has raised objections to the recommendations of the Rakesh Mohan Committee on more autonomy to the Accounting Standards Board, an arm of the regulator, saying that the panel hasn’t suggested anything that is already not in place. “The composition of the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) is fairly broad-based and ensures participation […]
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. […]
