Please refer to SEBI Circular, dated 26-11-2010 & 31-3-2011, regarding FII investment in the corporate bonds issued by Indian companies which are in the infrastructure sector, where ‘infrastructure’ is defined in terms of the extant guidelines on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB).
CIRCULAR NO. MIRSD/19/2011, DATED 26-8-2011 Henceforth all complaints shall be forwarded electronically through SCORES only. You are hereby directed to view the pending complaints at http://scores.gov.in/admin and submit the ATR along with supporting documents electronically in SCORES. Please note that updation of action taken would not be possible with physical ATRs. Hence, submission of physical ATR will not be accepted for complaints lodged in SCORES.
A notice under section 158BC cannot be equated with that of notice under section 148. A notice under section 158BC provides for a procedure to be adopted for block assessment under which, the Assessing Officer shall serve a notice requiring the assessee to furnish his return within such time not being less than 15 days but not more than 45 days as specified in the notice. Therefore, the time to be granted to the assessee in terms of section 158BC is a minimum of 15 days and a maximum of 45 days.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi has signed a DTAA with the India – Taipei Association in Taipei. Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) on August 17 announced that Taiwan’s income tax agreement and protocol with India entered into force on August 12 and will apply to income derived from Taiwan on or after January 1, 2012, and to income derived from India on or after April 1, 2012. The agreement has been entered under section 90A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 wherein any “specified association” in India may enter into a DTAA with any “specified association” in a “specified territory” outside India. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi and India – Taipei Association in Taipei have been notified as “specified associations” and “the territory in which the taxation law administered by the Ministry of Finance in Taipei is applied”, has been notified as the “specified territory” for the purpose of Section 90A.
Recently, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has released the Defaulters list and since then all of us including directors are getting much cautious to track the detail of defaulter companies and even directorship in other companies. In this regard we wish to bring in your kind knowledge that MCA has now introduced a welcome feature for the registered users of MCA21 to track not only the details of all the Companies in which a person is/was a director but also his designation, date of appointment /cessation and defaulting status of that company.
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The petitioners allegations that their group has been converted from a majority to a minority in shareholding and respondents representation in management has substantially been increased are found to be correct. In view of the continuous effects of such oppressive acts, to undo the effects and to regulate the affairs of the R-1-company in future, the present petition deserves to be allowed.
In a first of its kind action in the state, the Income Tax department has conducted surveys in small districts and unearthed tax evasion to the tune of close to Rs 18 crore. The department recently conducted a special drive and conducted raids at the business premises of firms in Tikamgarh district and found Rs 8 crore of undisclosed income. In another such action in the coal-rich belt of Singrauli district, the department unearthed undue tax evasions worth Rs 9.5 crore.
The Companies Bill, 2009 seeks to provide stricter provisions for more effective enforcement action against companies involved in fraud. Provisions like initiating investigation by Central Government suo moto, allowing search and seizure during investigation without obtaining an order from Special Court, provision for freezing of assets of a company under investigation on the order of Tribunal have been provided. Besides, the Bill emphasizes disclosures, deterrent penalties and has extensive enforcement provisions.
The Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs Shri R.P.N. Singh today informed the Lok Sabha that 820 foreign companies have been registered during the last three years. The Government has received Rs. 6.91 crore, Rs. 9.56 crore and Rs. 8.24 crore respectively, in the last three years(2008, 2009 and 2010) by way of filing/registration charges.
