In respect of the question concerning distance of the agricultural land from the municipal limits of city of Khanna the Tribunal has decided the issue holding that distance of 2 kms.from the municipal limits of city of Khanna has to be reckoned for the purposes of Section 2(14)(iii)of the Act by measuring the same as per the road distance and not as per straight line distance on a horizontal plane or as per crow’s flight
The election of the Pune branch of the Western India Regional Council (WIRC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has run into problems after some members filed a petition in the Shivajinagar civil court demanding a stay on it.The aggrieved members alleged that the governing body of the Pune chapter of WIRC has cancelled their nominations without an
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition challenging the Company Law Board’s order facilitating takeover of the scam-tainted Satyam Computers by the Mahindra group and allowed the IT firm to go ahead with the process to rope in a strategic investor through a public auction. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan dismissed the petition filed by an advocate Manohar Lal Sharma, who claimed to be a shareholder of the company.
Five sitting members of the apex council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (Icai) have been defeated in elections held on 4-5 December to elect a new team in 2010. Among the losers is Shanti Lal Daga, who was vice-chairman of the fact-finding committee set up by Icai to investigate the role of auditors in the fraud at Satyam Computer Services Ltd, according to an official with knowledge of the election results who did not want to be identified.
One of the unkindest cuts is that the auditor of a company, necessarily a CA, shall not render such services as accounting and book-keeping, internal audit, design and implementation of any financial information system, actuarial, investment advisory, investment banking, rendering of outsourced financial services, and management services.
India Inc on Tuesday asked Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to introduce Goods and Services Tax “as early as possible”, amid speculations that the indirect tax reform may not be implemented from the scheduled date of April 1. “We want that the GST deadline should not be missed,” Ficci president Harsh Pati Singhania told reporters after a pre-budget meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee along with other industrialists here on Tuesday.
The commerce ministry has proposed measures to make it easier for developers to exit special economic zones (SEZs) that have been struggling with a contraction in global demand for goods produced at the tax-free enclaves. Specific provisions for the de-notification of SEZs have been been put up for public comments till Thursday, after which they would be formally notified.
The government looks all set to introduce the new Direct Taxes Code in the forthcoming budget session , a government official said. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to discuss the contours of the new code, billed as the major reform of the direct tax structure being undertaken by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in its second tenure.
The Notification of the declaration of results under Rule 36 of the Chartered Accountants (Election to the Council) Rules, 2006 was to be published in the Gazette of India dated 6th January, 2010. While the Notification on the declaration of results of election to the 20th Regional Councils is being notified in the Gazette of India dated 6th January, 2010, however, the notification on the declaration of results in respect of election to the 21st Council is withheld arising out of the Stay granted by the Honourable High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan, Jaipur Bench, Jaipur vide its Orders dated 5.1.2010 in Civil Writ Petitions Nos. 157/2010 and 158/2010.
No.54-EL(1)/20/2010: In pursuance of provisions of Regulation 134(10) of the Chartered Accountants Regulations, 1988 read with Rule 36 of the Chartered Accountants (Election to the Council) Rules, 2006, the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is pleased to notify for general information the names (in alphabetical order), membership numbers and places of the members, who have been elected to the Twentieth Regional Councils of the Institute as given below:
