The Income Tax (I-T) department, which is investigating the origin of funds invested in Indian Premier League (IPL) teams, has run into a road block as most of the team owners have refused to part with their funding details. The I-T department’s problems stem from the fact that most of the IPL team owners, though of Indian origin, are citizens of other countries.
In a setback to telecom service provider Vodafone, the Income Tax Department on Monday said it has the jurisdiction to tax the $11.1-billion Vodafone- Hutchison Essar deal of February 2007. “We have jurisdiction over taxing Vodafone. Jurisdiction order has been issued … We will send the tax demand to them within few days,” Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) chairman S S N Moorthy told media.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked telecom companies to submit their account books to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). CAG had been asked by the Centre to check under-reporting of revenue for calculating the licence fee. A division bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Valmiki Mehta directed telcos to provide details of their revenue sharing to CAG.
We need so many reforms in legal education in India and also in the whole legal system. Our Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh has given a great speech in the recent past telling the truth about legal education and also legal profession. The Bar Associations give so much importance to Senior and privileged advocates and these privileged legal practitioners and Senior Advocates should discharge their basic responsibility with the sole intention of guiding the young generation lawyers and towards bringing the needed reforms in the system.
The Reserve Bank of India should ask all commercial banks to send their confirmation letters of bank account balances only to the statutory auditors and not to the company concerned. This recommendation forms part of the second report of the ICAI’s High Power Committee on Satyam fraud, the CA Institute President, Mr Amarjit Chopra, told Business Line here.
Our tax laws are replete with instances where taxpayers are required to do acts which are near impossible, which are beyond their powers, or for which they have to go to extraordinary lengths. Not only that, failure to comply with such provisions attracts additional taxes, interest or penalties.
Notification No. 42/2010-Income Tax It is hereby notified for general information that the organization Kashba Youth, Egra, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal has been approved by the Central Government for the purpose of clause (iii) of sub-section (5) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act,
The industry ministry today said it will come out with a definition of ”group company” soon, a clarification that would help global companies like Wal-Mart to begin operations without violating norms. “We are working on a clarification.
Government ordered SFIO investigation into Global Trust Bank case
State-owned insurer LIC has written a letter to the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) recently, asking for price secrecy in the bidding process for IPOs and FPOs, a source said. “LIC wrote a letter to SEBI after the Follow-on Public Offer (FPO) of the Rural Electrification Corporation in March this year, asking the regulator for price secrecy in the French Auction bids of institutional investors,” the source closely connected to the development told PTI here.
