The Finance Act, 2009 inserted a new section 144C in the Income-tax Act providing an alternate mechanism to resolve tax disputes of the foreign companies expeditiously. The Finance Minister, taking cognizance of delays, which take place in any tax litigation, declared in the parliament that “The dispute resolution mechanism presently in place is time consuming and finality in high demanding cases is attained only after a long drawn litigation till the Supreme Court.
The government has decided to crackdown on corporate and individuals that have defaulted on payment of their self-assessment in the year in a bid to boost direct tax collections that are well below the target for the year. Direct tax collections need to grow at 18% over the remaining five months of the fiscal 2009-10 ending March 2010 for the government to achieve its direct tax target for the year.
No single corporate client or group should account for more than a tenth of the total revenues of any audit firm and its associates, a committee on corporate governance set up by industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has recommended to the government.
Price Waterhouse Coopers is not a firm of Chartered Accountants registered with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). The ICAI has, however, initiated disciplinary action against M/s. Price Waterhouse, Bangalore, M/s. Price Waterhouse with head office at Kolkata and M/s. Price Waterhouse with head office at New Delhi, which are firms of chartered accountants registered with the ICAI.
As you are kindly aware that creation of employment opportunities to members of ICAI in industry, enhancing knowledge and skill sets and recognition of exemplary work of such Members in Industry are the primary goals of the Committee for Members in Industry of ICAI. The Committee continuously endeavors to provide value added services, upgrade its services by figuring out the various initiatives that can be taken to reinforce the placement services provided to the members in Industry.
British newspaper The Independent reported that the banks include HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, and Standard Chartered. The banks’ total loans to Dubai World exceeds US$ 30 billion.
KPMG was also named Asia’s transfer pricing firm of the year, a release said here today. KPMG’s Head of Tax Uday Ved, said, “these awards are recognition of our commitment to highest quality standards and thought leadership, as well as the trust posed by our clients on us.”
When the market started and I was listening CNBC TV Suddenly around 11 am Udayan Mukherjee of CNBC TV jumped of his seat and shocked to find the GDP numbers of India. Within few minutes India was into a roller coaster ride. July-Sept GDP up 7.9%. Economist and all market speculators are having their eyes coming out of shock. Before I get into further analysis just a quick look into the break up of India GDP figures.
At present, the provisioning requirements for NPAs range between 10 per cent and 100 per cent of the outstanding amount, depending on the age of the NPAs and the security available. Banks can also make additional specific provisions subject to a consistent policy based on riskiness of their credit portfolios, because the rates of provisioning stipulated for NPAs are the regulatory minimum. It has been observed that there is a wide heterogeneity and variance in the level of provisioning coverage ratio across different banks.
Zero interest rates of US and low interest rates of other countries made cheap money to flow like water coming out of a fountain. All these cheap money founded BRIC economies assets at cheap valuations giving them enough scope to generate healthy ROI.
