The government on Thursday said the accounting regulator ICAI has suggested that action can be taken against both erring audit firms and chartered accountants. The ICAI “has recommended to the government for amendments in the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, so that action can be taken against firms of chartered accountants themselves, in addition to individual chartered accountants, for misconduct,” Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
The director-general of Income Tax moved the Supreme Court alleging that the reward paid to an informer for furnishing information about black money of any taxpayer cannot be claimed as a matter of right.
The government today said it has asked the Registrar of Companies (RoC) to look into accounts of some companies on the basis of alerts put out by an early warning system, which has been installed to check corporate frauds.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) plans to introduce post membership qualification courses in competition law as well as corporate restructuring and insolvency in the next six months. Addressing reporters here, Anil Murarka, vice president, ICSI said, “We are going to roll out two new courses for our members in the next six months- one in competition law and the other in corporate restructuring and insolvency.”
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has submitted the first part of its Report, after consideration by its Council, wherein the former has recommended to the Government for amendments in the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, Rules and Regulations framed thereunder so that action can be taken against firms of chartered accountants themselves, in addition to individual chartered accountants, for misconduct.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), nodal agency for IFRS Implementation in India , coordinated with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for the joint initiative taken by the Core Committee for Implementation of IFRS chaired by Shri R. Bandopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs with the Japanese delegation led by Mr. Noriaki Shimazaki, Chairman, Internal Affairs Committee IFRS Council of Japan, for formulating coordination between the two countries for the effective implementation of IFRS.
The assessee made a provision for bad debts by debiting the P & L A/c and crediting the Provision for Bad debts A/c. Thereafter, the provision account was debited and the loans and advances a/c was credited. The AO denied the claim for bad debts u/s 36(1)(vii) on the ground that the individual account of the debtor had not been written off.
Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (Tribunal) [2010-TIOL-195-ITAT-MUM] in the case of Valentine Maritime Mauritius Ltd (Taxpayer), on the taxability of certain contracts executed in India. The issue primarily focused on how the ‘duration test’ of nine months under the India-Mauritius Tax Treaty (Tax Treaty) should be applied for determining whether the Taxpayer has a permanent establishment (PE) under the Construction PE rule of the Tax Treaty.
The Taxpayer had reduced the amount debited to the Profit and Loss Account (P&L) from the Loans and Advances/Debtors Account (Debtors A/c) on the assets side of the Balance Sheet. Considering this, the SC held that such a treatment constituted actual write off for the purposes of the Section and it was not necessary to credit individual debtor’s account to claim the deduction for write off.
The income-tax (I-T) department is all set to send a notice to MSM, formerly known as Sony Entertainment Television (SET), in connection with the Rs 425-crore ‘facilitation fee’ it paid to World Sport Group ‘s (WSG) Mauritius arm.
