The Income Tax Department on Monday said that it will issue a demand for over R12,000 crore to Vodafone within four weeks, following a Supreme Court verdict to that effect. “We will be raising tax demand on Vodafone within four weeks,” CBDT Chairman S.S.N. Moorthy said. He said a few similar cases are also under the I-T department’s scanner, but refused to name them. “Apprehensions have been expressed in different quarters regarding the impact of such action on foreign investment in India…. This, together with the fact that India has received the highest ever foreign direct investment in the current fiscal, belies that apprehension,” he said.
The government is understood to be considering roping in ICAI, the apex accounting body, to tighten the compensatory scheme for the people displaced by mining projects amid a furore over the proposal for 26 per cent profit-sharing in the new mining l
With the stock market moving closer to new record peaks, watchdog SEBI and the stock exchanges have enhanced their guard against manipulators. The regulating authority as well as the bourses, which act like first-stage regulators in the stock market,
