Over Rs 3 crore in cash have been recovered from an IAS couple in Bhopal following raids by the Income Tax Department officials at their residence on Thursday night. Officials also seized details of bank deposits worth Rs 2.25 crore from the house of Arvind Joshi, a senior IAS officer and his wife Tinu Joshi, who is the secretary of Woman and Child Welfare Development in the Madhya Pradesh government.
Accounting regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has said that it will start disciplinary proceedings against the Satyam auditor—Srinivas Talluri who has been granted bail on Thursday by the Supreme Court.
MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX), India’s new stock exchange, has signed a memorandum of understanding with The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) Set up by an Act of Parliament for leveraging each-others’ expertise and domain knowledge in launching several programmes and initiatives on financial markets.
SEBI has appointed a former chief commissioner of income-tax, Mr Vijay Ranjan, as administrator for reallocation of unjust gains in the IPO scam (2003-05) to the unsuccessful retail applicants. Mr Ranjan was also associated with SEBI as an Executive Director.
THE Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against Professor, School of Computer & System Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Professor, Electronics & Communication Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology,
S. 2 (24) (x) provides that amounts received by an assessee from employees towards PF contributions etc shall be “income”. S. 36 (1) (va) provides that if such sums are contributed to the employees account in the relevant fund on or before the due date specified in the PF etc legislation, the assessee shall be entitled to a deduction
Declared goods are the goods of special importance on which there are certain restrictions placed under CST Act 1956 on imposition of sales tax or VAT by the states. Article286(3)(a) of the Constitution of India authorises parliament to declare some goods as of special importance and to impose restrictions and conditions in regard to power of the states in regard to levy, rates and other incidence of tax on such goods.
In absence of Supreme Court’s order staying operations of High Court’s judgment relating to levy of service on renting of immovable property, Revenue Department could not instruct its officers to pursue the matter with tax payers calling upon them to pay service tax on same or to resort to other means under the law to protect the Revenue.
Price Waterhouse may have heaved a sigh of relief with its auditor Srinivas Talluri getting bail on Thursday, but its legal woes are far from over. On Wednesday, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) banned two chartered accountants associated with Lovelock & Lewes (network firm of Price Waterhouse) for professional misconduct with regard to their audit of the now-collapsed Global Trust Bank.
Employees of accounting regulator, the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI), late night on Thurday called off their two-day old strike, after the management agreed to their demand for a salary hike. “The management has given us a 20 per cent hike in January’s gross salary, which has been credited to our salary accounts,” ICAI Employees’ Association Secretary Deepak Kishore told PTI.
