The CBI on Monday opposed the bail plea of Price Waterhouse auditor Mr Srinivas Talluri who was arrested in Satyam fraud case for allegedly conniving with its founder Mr B Ramalinga Raju and other aides. Additional Solicitor General, Mr Harin Raval told a Bench headed by the Chief Justice, Mr K G Balakrishnan that Mr Talluri was part of the conspiracy in the entire fraud.
Attention of Authorized Dealers Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to A.P.(DIR Series) Circular No. 05 dated August 06, 2008, permitting persons resident in India to participate in the currency futures market in India, subject to the directions contained in Currency Futures (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2008 [Notification No. FED.1/ DG (SG)-2008 dated August 6, 2008].
The Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Tameshwar Vaishanav vs Ramvishal Gupta that if the payee or the holder of the cheque does not file a complaint of dishonour within the prescribed time, he cannot issue a second notice and then file a complaint again. Notice with respect to a cheque can be issued only once. The deadline or limitation starts from the date of the first notice.
The government is planning to tighten norms governing FDI through partly-paid shares, convertible warrants and units issued by venture capital funds (VCFs), as it looks to prevent misuse of these popular instruments. The finance ministry and the department of industrial policy & promotion (DIPP) have decided that the conditions such as sectoral ceilings, minimum-capitalisation and lock-in period governing foreign investment through equity should be applicable to these instruments. The two sides held consultations following an increase in the quantum of FDI flowing through these windows.
The government is consider reviewing the structure of the apex chartered accountants body in the country, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), that may result in the separation of its academic and regulatory functions.
The statistics of CA final result in respect of examination held in November 2009. CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS FINAL EXAMINATION( Existing Course) HELD IN NOVEMBER-2009. CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS FINAL EXAMINATION( New Course) HELD IN NOVEMBER-2009
Income Tax authorities are planning to broaden the tax base, seek greater exchange of information under the tax treaties and provide better services to tax payers by 2020 when the direct tax reforms would be firmly in place. The apex direct tax body, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has formed seven committees comprising senior revenue officials to come out with a draft Vision 2020 document that would delineate ways to increase tax collections in a non-intrusive manner.
These individuals, according to the RBI, may open, hold and maintain a foreign currency account with a bank outside India and receive the whole salary payable to him for the services rendered to the office/branch/subsidiary/joint venture in India of such foreign company, by credit to such account, provided that income-tax chargeable under the Income-tax Act, 1961, is paid on the entire salary as accrued in India.
The bar councils are open to public scrutiny under the Right To Information (RTI) Act and should set-up a mechanism to facilitate processing of applications directed to them under the transparency law, the Central Information Commission has held.
Supreme Court (SC) [2010-TIOL-04- SC-IT] in the case of Oracle Software India Ltd. (Taxpayer) on the issue of whether the process of converting a blank compact disc (CD) into a recorded CD, by duplicating the master copy of software on it, constitutes manufacture under the Indian Tax Law (ITL) for the purpose of claiming tax holiday
