Over a year after the Supreme Court dismissed telecom major Vodafone’s petition challenging Indian tax authorities’ jurisdiction over its $11.2-billion acquisition of Hutchison Essar in 2007, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warning that such tax treatment will affect India’s investment climate.
The new Companies Bill with stricter corporate governance norms is expected to be enacted by the end of this year, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said today. Companies Bill 2009, which lapsed with the dissolution of the 14th Lok Sabha, was reintroduced in the Lok Sabha in August last year.
Following the Prime Minister’s reported call to his Cabinet colleagues to stay away from any business interest, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today suggested that ministers could hand over their businesses to a trust, as is being practised in the US.
Big corporations will now find it difficult to defer their advance tax payments. In a bid to meet its revenue collection targets, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has decided to monitor advance tax payments by top companies and persuade them not to defer such payment as self-assessment tax for the next financial year.
Eastern India Regional Council of the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India is organizing the “Regional Students Conference” at ITC Fortune, Kolkata on 14th February, 2010. The theme of the Conference is “India redefined…. CMAs with the difference”.
The ‘Shield Panel’, a sub-committee of the Research Committee of the Institute, conducts the competition for the ‘ICAI Awards for Excellence in Financial Reporting’ annually, with a view to promote better standards in the presentation of information in the financial statements. The Panel evaluates the Annual Reports and other documents pertaining to the participant organisations.
The next Chartered Accountants Examinations of the Institute will be held from 4th to 17th May, 2010. The sale of Examination Application forms for IPCE, PE-II, PCE and Final Examinations would commence from 08th February, 2010. The last date for sale and receipt of filled in application is 26th February, 2010 (without late fee) and 5th March, 2010 (with late fee of Rs. 500/- ).
The Sale of Examination Application Forms for Chartered Accountants Professional Education – II, Professional Competence Course (PCE), Integrated Professional Competence Course (IPCE) and Final Examinations and also for the Management Accountancy Course (MAC Part – I ),Corporate Management Course (CMC Part – I), Tax Management Course (TMC Part – I), Insurance and Risk Management Course (IRM) and international Trade Laws and World Trade Organization (ITL&WTO)
