In modification of our instructions dated May 06, 2009, well managed and financially sound Uni-state Tier II UCBs satisfying the norms at a) to f) above, will be permitted to extend their area of operations to the entire State of registration.
Further, the path to access the directory of the scheduled commercial banks given in Annex-I of the above mentioned circular is changed and therefore, the revised access path to generate the report on the Directory of AD Category branches is given in the Annex-II. The path to access the Application Software package is given in Annex I. In case of any assistance / clarification, AD banks may communicate by e-mail.
In the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy of the Reserve Bank of India for the Year 2010-11, it was announced that Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) would be allowed current account and SGL account with the Reserve Bank as also membership of INFINET and RTGS. The relevant paragraph of the Review is reproduced below.
Close to five lakh demat accounts have been frozen by the Central Depository Services Ltd (CDSL) and the National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) for want of PAN details. This makes up for about three per cent of the total number of demat accounts i
Whenever we talk about the delay in Courts and the solution, many will be in dilemma as to how to deal with this issue comprehensively. The issues highlighted by many, including public, professionals and the eminent judges, in my opinion, on legal reforms are as follows:
The new feature of downloadable e-forms has been made available on the LLP Portal. Users may now download the e-forms required to be filed and upload the same once filled at their end.
In a recent ruling in the case of ACIT v. Fiat India Pvt. Ltd. [2010-TII-30-ITAT–MUM-TP], the Mumbai Bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, while deciding the case in favour of the assessee, accepted various adjustments made while determining arm’s length price, as they had been sufficiently explained and evidenced by the assessee. The Tribunal also ruled that for an asset intensive industry, the appropriate Profit Level Indicator (“PLI”) shall be Profit Before Interest and Tax and not Profit before Depreciation Interest and Tax
The Mumbai Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (‘the Tribunal’), in the case of ITO v. Zydus Altana Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. [2010-TI I-29-ITAT–MUM-TP], while deciding the case in favour of the assessee, ruled that the determination of arm’s length price should be based on the functional and asset profile of a company and profit margins earned by comparable companies should be adjusted for functional differences between the tested party and the comparables. The Tribunal also ruled that in case an assessee’s income is exempt from tax (and taxable in the overseas jurisdiction), this factor should be considered by the revenue authorities while undertaking a tax assessment since in such a situation, there is no benefit to the assessee in charging its associated enterprise a lower mark-up.
If you fail to carry out any transaction for 24 months through your bank account, it can be frozen. This is in line with the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) mandate, that a bank account automatically gets classified as inoperative or dormant if there a
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has proposed to set up a Centre for Excellence in Bhubaneswar. “ICAI currently has around 600 members in Orissa and we intend to set up a Centre of Excellence in Bhubaneswar. We have sought the c
