FOREIGN investors will be required to give a commitment that they will not do anything detrimental to India’s interest as the government looks to tighten scrutiny of foreign direct investment, but experts say the regulation is not so innocuous. The department of industrial policy and promotion or DIPP, the key government body for policy on foreign direct investments, has initiated discussions with concerned ministries including finance, law, home, and the RBI.
In 2002, the Companies Act, 1956, was amended to provide establishment of company law tribunals to play the role that had hitherto been played by high courts. Specific arrangements and transactions such as mergers, demergers and reduction of capital, and also liquidation and winding up of companies are overseen by high courts having jurisdiction where the registered office of the company is located. The amendment sought to move such jurisdiction to specialised tribunals established for the purpose, with an appellate tribunal adding a layer of appeal.
Under the new model of RML launched last year, banks will pay a lump-sum amount to a life insurance company, which in turn makes annuity-based payment to the borrower. The catch, however, is that the interest payable by the borrower is treated as accrued interest and liable to income tax in the hands of the bank.
Large Indian companies could report a sharp fall in the valuation of their assets as new accounting norms prompt these firms to reassess the fair value of their units, a mandatory condition under globalised reporting standards. Adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a modern accounting system that Indian companies have to migrate to from next year,
Alarmed by the initial findings of its departmental inquiry, the income-tax (I-T ) department has moved the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) to probe the ‘tax return scam.’ The hand of several I-T officials working in tandem with some rogue tax agents is suspected in the scam to siphon off refunds.
The assessee, an Indian company, entered into an agreement with a Chinese company for bauxite testing services in its laboratories (outside India) and for preparation of test reports. The assessee filed an application u/s 195(1) in which it argued that as the services were rendered outside India and the recipient did not have a permanent establishment in India,
The Mumbai Bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (‘Tribunal’) in the case of T Two International Pvt. Ltd., Tara Jewels Exports Pvt. Ltd. and Tara Ultimo Pvt. Ltd. (See Note-1) (‘the ‘Company’ or ‘taxpayer’), held that in order to determine the arm’s length price of the international transaction, the arm’s length margin should be applied only on the international transaction and not on the entire costs / sales of the taxpayer, as the case may be.
The Income Tax department has set up the Centralized Processing Centre (CPC) at Bengaluru for bulk processing of income tax returns. The CPC will process all electronic tax returns of the entire country, and physical returns of Karnataka and Goa regions. It is equipped with a dedicated call centre, where taxpayers can enquire about the status of their returns and refunds, and also has a remote record storage unit, which would reduce congestion in the IT offices.
The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India had in August 2009, pursuant to the provisions of Rule 12 of the Chartered Accountants (Procedures of Investigations of Professional and Other Misconduct and Cases) Rules, 2007 had amended the audit documentation retention period appearing as ten years in paragraph 83 of Standard on Quality Control 1 to seven years.
