In a landmark judgment, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the legality of the Companies (Second Amendment) Act, 2002, providing for the establishment of the National Company Law Tribunal and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal to deal exclusively with the company cases for their speedy disposal.
The five-judge Constitution Bench ruled that the National Company Law Tribunal can be set up only after amending the law. But, it did not decide on the fate of the National Tax Tribunal, another important body envisaged as a fast-track alternative disputes resolution mechanism.
Notification No. 62/2010-Customs – Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.9/1995-Customs, dated the 6th March, 1995 published in the Gazette of India,
Listing means formal admission of a security into a public trading system, usually a stock exchange, often evidenced by a listing agreement between the issuer of the security and the stock exchange. It provides liquidity to the issuer of security for capital and ensures effective monitoring of conduct of issuer and of the trading of the securities in the interest of investors. The issuer wishing to have trading privileges for the securities on a stock exchange satisfies listing requirements prescribed in the relevant statues and in the listing regulations of the concerned stock exchange.
The Income Tax department which is probing all financial transactions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has advised all foreign players to obtain PAN cards, failing which they will have to pay penal tax on their cricket related earnings in India.
CLOSE on the heels of the voluntary retirements of a dozen officers two months ago, another set of officers from the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), the finance ministry’s arm for collecting direct taxes, have put in their papers. Many of the officers, it is learnt, are likely to take up more lucrative posts with the private sector, sooner or later.
Electronic filing, or e-filing, of tax returns first clicked in India as part of a proposal for Web-based electronic tax administration system for service tax. Thanks to the Central Board of Excise and Customs, the e-filing of service tax returns commenced in April 2003 but its benefit was available only to a few service tax providers.
The capital market regulator is going ahead with enforcement proceedings against audit firm Price Waterhouse, even as the firm moved a second consent application to reach an early settlement over the investigation into its role in the accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services.
The income-tax department that faced flak from many quarters for late payment or non-payment of tax refunds, has been now asked to beef up its automation that does not seem to have helped much for the pending refund claims that could take even four years to be processed.
Form 11 is made available at http://llp.gov.in. All LLPs whose financial year closes on 31st March of every year has to file Form 11 within 60 days from the date of financial year closure without any late fee and later it attracts additional fees @ of Rs. 100/- per day of delay. This financial year (closed on 31/03/2010), the due date falls on 30/05/2010.
