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.
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”.
