The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance has sought details of the financial dealings of the Indian Premier League from the UPA government. It has also questioned finance ministry and corporate affairs ministry officials on why no enquiry was conducted during the first two years of the the T20 extravaganza.
Clearing the confusion over honouring cheques with corrections, the Reserve Bank of India said this will be applicable only for cheques cleared under the image-based cheque truncation system (CTS). According to a RBI notification, this has been introduced to curtail cheque frauds on account of alterations in cheques and protect customers as well as banks.
After winning the turf war with market watchdog Sebi on ULIPs, insurance regulator Irda on Monday said it would frame new guidelines for these products to make them more attractive for policy holders. “Certainly, yes,” Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority chairman J Hari Narayan told PTI when asked whether the insurance regulator would unveil new guidelines for unit-linked insurance policies to make them attractive for investors.
“The tender process for auditing social sector schemes has led to deterioration in the quality of audit. Audit firms quote too low a price for procuring the auditing work of such schemes. However, low prices certainly are a cause of concern for us keeping in mind that the actual cost of such audits is higher,” Chopra said while expressing concern over the social sector audit in the country. He said that the institute would probe the reasons why audit firms quote such low prices in the tenders.
New rules have been introduced on Tax Deduction at Source, the latest in a set of recent changes. This will impact the manner in which individuals deal with their TDS certificates. There have been changes that will impact a lot of procedural areas. One set of aspects will impact those deducting the tax and paying this to the government. The other impact will be on the person whose amount is deducted.
Whereas, the designated authority vide notification No.15/27/2008-DGAD, dated the 31st March, 2009, published in Part I, Section 1 of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, dated the 1st April, 2009, had initiated review in the matter of continuation of final anti-dumping duty on Poly Vinyl Chloride Paste Resin also called as Emulsion PVC Resin (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods),
The Centre has amended as many as four laws to take the controversial unit-linked insurance plans (ULIPs) out of an ugly courtroom spat between the stock market regulator and the insurance regulator.And now, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) appears set to overhaul ULIP guidelines, industry sources said on Sunday.
The Centre may drop the idea of granting states equal powers to levy indirect taxes as part of roll-out of a single tax rate regime. The Finance Ministry had in April sought the Law Ministry’s opinion on granting states such a power, but the idea seems to have been shot down.
The Income Tax Department is likely to slap a demand of Rs 8,500 crore on foreign companies and their domestic subsidiaries which allegedly transferred profits to other countries to reduce tax liability. “Income Tax Department is likely to raise over Rs 8,500 crore from transfer pricing audits. There has been scrutiny of 8,105 such cases,” Finance Ministry sources told PTI.
The assessee, a charitable trust claimed exemption u/s 10(23C)(vi). The return was processed u/s 143(1)(a). No assessment order u/s 143(3) was passed. Subsequently, the AO issued a notice u/s 147 on the ground that as the assessee had not invested a sum of Rs. 1.02 crores in investments u/s 11(5), the said sum of Rs. 1.02 crores was chargeable to tax. The reopening was upheld by the CIT(A). On appeal by the assessee, HELD allowing the appeal:
