The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has directed its field formations to expedite “non-duty-related measures” for augmenting revenue. To this effect, CBEC members held meetings last week. Officials said the priority was revenue maximisation to take care of the fiscal deficit. While duty cuts have dampened indirect tax collection, the emphasis is now on non-duty measures like arrears and duty from existing goods.
Peer Review Board was established by the Council of the Institute in March 2002 to conduct the system of PR. As you must be aware, it has been made mandatory for the auditors of the listed company to undergo PR on/before 31st March 2009. If they fail to do so, their reappointment is made invalid. Earlier, only Bank audit units were covered under PR. It is mandatory for all the practice units who are auditing listed companies and also Bank branches.
The first seminar on Design Clinic Scheme for Design Expertise, a component of National Manufacturing Competitiveness Programme was held here today. It is a unique and ambitious design intervention scheme for the country’s large micro, small and medium scale enterprises, which combines design awareness programmes and project based design assistance.
Transfer pricing is a major international tax compliance issue as multinational entities tend to set transfer pricing on cross-border transactions to reduce taxable profits. Being organized by CBDT and OECD from 17th to 19th February 2010, the seminar is a part of capacity building of transfer pricing resources in India and aims to discuss various important issues of transfer pricing like intangibles, cost sharing arrangement, etc.
Shri Salman Khirshid, Minister for Corporate Affairs, has reiterated the idea of making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) quantifiable and urged corporates to debate the possibility of establishing a CSR exchange to deal in CSR credits. Launching the FICCI-Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence here today at Federation House, Shri Khurshid said that through the CSR exchange mechanism, companies would be able to trade in CSR credits, akin to trading in carbon credits. He said that we would be doing justice to the next generation by trading in CSR credits if we are able to find a way of quantifying CSR.
