`Happy to help you’ may remind you of the famous ad of a private telecom services company, but the Income Tax (I-T) department is also eager to tell large corporate taxpayers roughly the same thing.So, client executives and relationship managers — so far confined to the private sector and especially service providers — have now made an entry into the tax department, too.
Companies Act, 1956 A company is required to maintain its books of account and vouchers for a period of 8 years immediately preceding the current year. Licensed Companies u/s 25 of The Companies Act, 1956 is required to maintain its books of account and vouchers for a period of not less than 4 years. The […]
SEBI/CFD/DIL/LA/2/2009/21/7 July 21, 2009 The Managing Director/ Executive Director/ Administrator of all the Stock Exchanges Dear Sir/Madam, Sub.: Amendments to the Equity Listing Agreement 1. It has been decided to amend the Equity Listing Agreement to prohibit listed companies from issuing shares with superior rights as to voting or dividend vis-à-vis the rights on equity […]
The Securities and Exchange Board of India, the markets watchdog, has done away with a no-delivery period for all types of corporate actions for scrips that are traded in the compulsory dematerialised mode and accordingly, short deliveries, if any. During corporate announcements like bonus or dividend, shares of that company were under a no-delivery period. […]
The Supreme Court will decide whether mutual fund brokers can resort to a process (dividend stripping) of creating a short-term loss to avoid tax. A Bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia has issued notice broking firms on a batch of petitions filed by the income-tax department challenging the Bombay High Court judgment that a broker […]
Announcement for November 2009 examinations Professional Competence Examinations It is clarified that in Part –II : Service tax and VAT of Paper 5 : Taxation, students will not be tested on specific questions covering individual taxable services. Integrated Professional Competence Examinations It is clarified that in Part –II : Service tax and VAT of Paper […]
Necessary amendments to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident Outside India) Regulations, 2000 and Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Any Foreign Security) Regulations, 2004, are being issued separately.
Presently cash withdrawal facility using plastic cards is available only at Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs). As on May 31, 2009, number of ATMs and POS terminals in the country stood at 44,857 and 4,70,237 respectively. The use of debit cards at Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals at different merchant establishments has been steadily increasing. As a further step towards enhancing the customer convenience in using the plastic money, it has been decided to permit cash withdrawals at POS terminals. To start with, this facility will be available for all debit cards issued in India, upto Rs.1000/- per day.
LLP is a new corporate form that enables professional expertise and entrepreneurial initiative to combine, organize and operate in an innovative and efficient manner. In India, this need has long been recognised for businesses which may require a framework that provides flexibility suited to requirements of service, knowledge and technology based enterprises. Services sector is playing a major role in the national economy and there is a growing diversity in the range of services being offered. The services sector also finds this form very useful.
NSDL has put a notice on his website mentioning that they will verify Identity and address of a certain percentage of PAN applications although they haven’t mentioned much detail about the mode of visit, timing, within how much day of application, who will be authorized to visit etc. The notice on NSDL website is as […]
