The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (‘EPFO’) has issued updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on 6 May 2011 in context of applicability of the Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, 1952 (EPFS) and Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 (EPS), which are primary social security scheme in India, to International Workers .
Categories of transactions not likely to have appreciable adverse effect on competition in India. In view of the duty cast upon the Commission under section 18 and powers conferred under section 36 of the Act, and having regard to the mandate given to the Commission to, inter alia, regulate combinations which have caused or are likely to cause appreciable adverse effect on competition in terms of sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Act, it is clarified that since the categories of combinations mentioned in Schedule I are ordinarily not likely to cause an appreciable adverse effect on competition in India, notice under sub-section (2) of section 6 of the Act need not normally be filed.
Union Minister for Corporate Affairs Shri Murli Deora has desired that concerted action to be taken to expedite the process of liquidation of companies which is currently taking inordinately long. In the conference of Official Liquidators organised by the Ministry recently to discuss ways for expediting liquidation process the it was opined that one of the major factors responsible for India’s low rank in the global “doing business survey” conducted by the World Bank is the time taken for liquidation of companies.
The Supreme Court, by an order dated 6th May 2011, upheld the notifications by the Custodian regarding involvement of Smt. Rasila S. Mehta and Smt. Rina S. Mehta in the securities scam of 1992. They are, respectively, the mother and sister-in-law of late Harshad Mehta. The Apex court dismissed their appeals against the order of the Special Court, which had confirmed their January 2007 notifications by the Custodian.
Government has taken note of the judgment of the Supreme Court dated 11.5.2011 rejecting the curative petition filed by the CBI to reconsider the judgment of the Supreme Court dated 13.9.1996. The principal grounds on which the curative petition has been rejected appear to be that the curative petition does not satisfy the principles laid down in Rupa Ashok Hurra Vs. Ashok Hurra 2002 (4) SCC 388 and delay in filing the curative petition
The government has collected an unprecedented Rs. 7.90 lakh crore in taxes in 2010-11 while refunds worth Rs. 74,000 crore have been issued during the fiscal, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday. There has been an unprecedented collection of tax revenues in the financial year 2010-11. Against an initial aggregate target of Rs. 7,45,000 crore that we revised to Rs. 7,82,000 crore, the total collections stand at nearly Rs. 7,90,000 crore, Mukherjee said in a commendation letter to CBDT Chairman Sudhir Chandra.
Transfer pricing cases will now be subject to audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, Director General of Income Tax (DGIT) RN Dash said while addressing a seminar organised by Assocham. Multinational corporations often use transfer pricing as a tool to shift cost of input from one country to another to avoid payment of taxes in nations with high incidence of taxes. India has been trying to tighten the transfer pricing regulations to prevent tax evasion.
Notification No. 24/2011 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of rule 6 of Part A of the Fourth Schedule to the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) number S.O. 2091(E), dated the 26th August, 2010, the Central Government hereby fixes, with effect from the 1st day of September, 2010, 9.5 per cent., as the rate referred to in the said clause.
