Companies wanting to migrate to international auditing norms, the International Financial reporting Standard (IFRS), may be spared from maintaining two books of accounts — one under the Companies Act and the other for taxation purposes, if a Finance Ministry proposal gets implemented. The proposal, which was floated in a Discussion Paper on Tax Accounting Standards (TAS) issued by the ministry today, aims at ‘reducing the complinace burden on businesses’.
As you are aware it is time of peak filing of Balance Sheet & Annual Return under the Companies Act, 1956. It has been brought to the Institutes’ notice that during October, 2011, filing of Balance Sheet and Annual Return is less as compared to last year during the same time. You are therefore kindly requested to motivate the corporates to file their Balance Sheet and Annual Return as early preferably well before the festival time of Diwali to avoid last minute rush and system congestion in MCA21.
The globalisation and the emerging scenario of the corporate world require specialized professionals who can provide service with excellence, professionalism & objectivity to deal with various aspects of the corporate affairs. Technicalities of Corporate laws, accounting and auditing have undergone and are undergoing important changes. Members and other stakeholders need guidance on various areas of corporate laws and practice.
On the initiative of Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry (MoS-C & I), the Task Force on Transaction Cost was constituted by the Department of Commerce under the orders of Hon’ble Commerce & Industry Minister Shri Anand Sharma in October 2009, with a mandate to identify and suggest ways to achieve significant improvement in efficiency of our export processes in order to reduce money and time spent in exports by the exporters and to improve the ease of business and ultimately the competitiveness of Indian exports.
Press Information Bureau is organizing its two-day Annual Economic Editors’ Conference in the National Media Centre, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi which will be inaugurated by the Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee tomorrow.
The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, at its 308th meeting, considered an issue relating to difficulties being faced by the members of the Institute in compliance with paragraphs 61 and 62 of the SRE 2410, Review of Interim Financial Information Performed by the Independent Auditor of the Entity, raised by the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board of the Institute.
Please refer to Para 1.1.3 of our circular RPCD.No.RRB.BC.20/03.05.33/2007-08 dated August 22, 2007 on lending to priority sector in terms of which working capital and term loans for financing production and investment requirements for agriculture and allied activities are treated as direct finance to agriculture under priority sector.
ACIT Vs M/s Skylark Build (ITAT Mumbai)- Approach adopted by the Assessing Officer for assessing the income from TDR independently without deducting the expenses incurred is not justified. The assessee has been following project completion method which is an accepted method of accounting in construction business and also recommended as per accounting standard AS-7 of ICAI. Therefore, in such cases the income from the project has to be computed in the year of completion.
Honorable High Court held that waiver of unsecured loan is a capital receipt non chargeable to tax u/s 41(1) of the Act since there is no prior deduction/allowance of the same to assessee. The condition precedent is that there should be an allowance or deduction in the assessment for any year in respect of loss, expenditure or trading liability incurred by the assessee.
Systematic Exports Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) – S. 80-IA (9) cannot be interpreted to mean that s. 80-IA deduction has to be reduced for computing s. 80HHC deduction. S. 80-IA (9) inserted w. e. f. 1.4.1989 provides that where any amount of profits and gains of an undertaking is claimed and allowed under s. 80-IA for any assessment year, deduction to the extent of such profits and gains shall not be allowed under any other provisions of Chapter VI-A (C) and shall in no case exceed the profits and gains of such eligible business. The Court had to consider whether the deduction allowed u/s 80-IA had to be reduced from the profits for computing deduction u/s 80HHC. HELD dissenting from Rogini Garments 108 ITD 49 (Che)(SB), Hindustan Mint & Agro Products 119 ITD 107 (Del) (SB), Great Eastern Exports (Del) & Olam Exports (India) Ltd 184 TM 373 (Ker) & deciding in favour of the assessee
