Where the gross total income of an assessee includes any profits and gains derived from an industrial undertaking or a ship or the business of a hotel or the business of repairs to ocean-going vessels or other powered craft to which this section applies, there shall, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this section, be allowed, in computing the total income of the assessee, a deduction from such profits and gains of an amount equal to twenty per cent thereof:
I am directed to refer to Board’s Circular No. 14/2003-Cus dated 6.3.03 whereby the work related to fixation of Brand rates of Duty Drawback was decentralized. Para 5 of the said Circular stated that the Ministry would continue to consider and dispose off all residual pendency relating to the Brand rate applications. More than 7 years have passed since the issue of this Circular, but still at times requests are received in the Board relating to brand applications filed by the exporters prior to the decentralization of this work in 2003.
Banks will have to soon put in place an additional authentication cover for their credit and debit card customers transacting over phone, or get penalised. Taking forward its efforts to tackle identity frauds in non-branch banking transactions, the Reserve Bank has asked all the banks operating in the country to put in place by next year a system where credit and debit card customers would need to provide an additional password for IVR (interactive voice response) transactions.
Official auditor CAG on Friday pulled up the Income Tax department for not being able to retain the existing tax base in 2008-09, particularly among corporate taxpayers. “The number of assessees declined by 3 per cent compared to an increase by 7.6 per cent in 2007-08. The decline was sharper among corporate assessees, indicating, inter alia, stop-filing which would nee to be reviewed by the Board (Central Board of Direct Taxes),” the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said in a report tabled in Parliament today.
A government company is engaged in the construction and operation of thermal power plants in the country. The company has also diversified into hydro power generation, coal mining and oil & gas exploration, etc. The company is registered under the Companies Act, 1956 and being an electricity generating company, is governed by the provisions of the Electricity Act, 2003.
The government on Thursday said the accounting regulator ICAI has suggested that action can be taken against both erring audit firms and chartered accountants. The ICAI “has recommended to the government for amendments in the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, so that action can be taken against firms of chartered accountants themselves, in addition to individual chartered accountants, for misconduct,” Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
The director-general of Income Tax moved the Supreme Court alleging that the reward paid to an informer for furnishing information about black money of any taxpayer cannot be claimed as a matter of right.
The government today said it has asked the Registrar of Companies (RoC) to look into accounts of some companies on the basis of alerts put out by an early warning system, which has been installed to check corporate frauds.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) plans to introduce post membership qualification courses in competition law as well as corporate restructuring and insolvency in the next six months. Addressing reporters here, Anil Murarka, vice president, ICSI said, “We are going to roll out two new courses for our members in the next six months- one in competition law and the other in corporate restructuring and insolvency.”
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has submitted the first part of its Report, after consideration by its Council, wherein the former has recommended to the Government for amendments in the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, Rules and Regulations framed thereunder so that action can be taken against firms of chartered accountants themselves, in addition to individual chartered accountants, for misconduct.
