Dr.M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice will release a paper on Proposed Amendments in Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 here tomorrow. The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 deals with law relating to domestic arbitration, international commercial arbitration and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. The objects and basis of the said Act is to speedy disposal with least court intervention.
Notification No. 29 /2010- Customs (N.T.), New Delhi, the 8th April 2010.- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1B) of section 129A of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, No. 49/2005-Customs (N.T.) published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R.410(E),dated the17th June, 2005, namely:-
-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1B) of section 129A of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, No. 39/2005-Customs (N.T.) published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R.307(E), dated the 13th May, 2005, namely:-
Even as the churn at professional advisory firms continues, PricewaterhouseCoopers India, the countries largest in this space, has again seen at least three partners leave the firm to pursue growth opportunities elsewhere. Consulting and accounting major PwC, which recently saw the exit of 17 partners, has, however, been on an aggressive recruitment spree as a recovering economy prompts companies to increase mandates to consulting firms for advice on future transactions, say people familiar with the development.
The finance ministry may exclude land value from the ambit of a new tax on under-construction houses, potentially taking the sting out of the proposed levy after it ran into a storm of protests from the real estate sector and exposed fissures within the government. The 2010-11 budget has proposed a 10% service tax on 33% of the total cost of under-construction houses, which could increase the price tag of such properties by 3.3%. The new tax will come into effect once the budget is approved by Parliament.
Notification No. 24/2010-Income Tax S.O. (E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (48) of section 2 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), read with clause (ii), clause (iii) and clause (v) of sub-rule (3) and sub-rule (6) of rule 8B of the Income Tax Rules, 1962, the Central Government hereby specifies the bond with the following particulars as zero coupon bond for the purposes of the said clause (48) of section 2 of the said Act, namely :—
Notification No. 23/2010-Income Tax valuation of shares and securities.-(a) the fair market value of quoted shares and securities shall be determined in the following manner, namely;-(i) if the quoted shares and securities are received by way of transaction carried out through any recognized stock exchange, the fair market value of such shares and securities shall be the transaction value as recorded in such stock exchange;
Over 150 countries have implemented or announced plans to migrate to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). India proposes to adopt IFRS from the accounting period starting April 2011 or later. The uniformity in accounting and disclosure standards will enable all stakeholders to understand the performance of entities and make comparisons across sectors and countries. However, the challenges cannot be underestimated as some countries that adopted IFRS took over two years for complete convergence.
Applications are invited from ISA qualified members having working experience of five years to review the functioning of ITT centres of the ICAI. The member should preferably be from Proprietary firms/ Partnership firm with a maximum of three members.
If there was a surplus of agricultural income in the hands of the assessee for these impugned assessment years, there would have been no question of claiming expenses by way of deduction or question of allowing the same as deduction in computing the business income of the assessee company. The expenses relating to agricultural operations cannot be allowed as expenditure in computing the business income for the simple reason that agricultural income does not form part of the total income under the IT Act.
