Filing of returns, seeking refund/rebate of taxes, obtaining various permissions and approvals from the Department of Central Excise and Service Tax can now be made online. This follows the introduction of ACES (Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax), a workflow based application software at the Commissionerate of Service Tax and at the Large Taxpayer […]
The excise department has registered a significant rise in number of defaulters in the last four months of the current financial year in the state. The rising default has added to the woes of excise department, which has already registered a fall in growth of excise income. As per data available with the central excise […]
9. We have considered the rival submissions and perused the record o the case. The short dispute is whether the anticipated loss on the valuation of fixed price contract, in view of the mandatory requirements of AS-7, is to be allowed in the year in which the contract has been entered into or it is to be spread over a period of contract, as was done by the assessee in earlier years
The upcoming general elections could take its toll on the bottom lines of a host of Indian companies that have accessed overseas debt. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has deferred a decision on relaxing accounting standard 11 (AS 11), which mandates mark-to-market (MTM) provisioning in the profit and loss account for foreign […]
If you are sitting on unrealised losses on equity investments made less than a year ago, here is some consolation. Those unrealised losses can be used to lower tax liabilities for the current financial year. Tax experts are advising investors to book their losses on or before March 31 this year and buy back those […]
Even as the final advance tax numbers are awaited, it appears that direct tax collections this year may find it tough to meet the government’s target. Government officials said direct tax collections are seen at Rs 2.72 lakh crore till today. March collections were at Rs 10,000 crore so far and are running slower than […]
The Government has roped in accounting and auditing rule-maker Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to help public sector companies improve their corporate governance track record. ICAI will now regularly conduct workshops for chartered accountants at senior positions in public sector units and will closely monitor the effectiveness of the training. The regulator will […]
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 […]
