Mukesh Ambani has got company of at least 29 fellow corporate executives, including four from his own group Reliance Industries , in terms of annual salaries running into crores of rupees for the latest fiscal. These include JSW Energy’s Sajjan Jindal, Hindustan Construction’s Ajit Gulabchand, Raymond’s Gautam Hari Singhania, ICICI Bank’s Chanda Kochhar, Axis Bank’s Shikha Sharma, as also Infosys’ S Gopalakrishnan and S D Shibulal.
Sebi has begun a probe into possible use of fake bids for artificially pushing up the subscription levels in numerous IPOs over past few years, with a modus-operandi similar to that in Vaswani Industries case. After halting Vaswani Industries’ listing earlier this month on suspicion of irregularities in its IPO bidding, the market watchdog last week ordered a detailed probe into the matter, which would be completed by the next month.
Technological advancements in recent decades have given us a digital platform for financial information. However, ‘digital’ does not mean ‘compatible’ because each software application generates the financial document in different format (pdf, xls, html, doc. etc), which unfortunately cannot be read directly by another software application. Such challenges have resulted in inconsistencies in the financial data as well as inordinate delay in discharging the regulatory roles of the Ministry.
ICAI requires technically par excellence professionally successful, academically brilliant, and administratively capable human resources at various level for being part of the business transformation project at ICAI in its headquarters at Delhi/Noida. The ICAI is the apex accountancy body established by the Parliament for regulating the profession of Chartered Accountants in India. During its glorious existence of more than sixty-two years, ICAI has achieved recognition as a premier accountancy body not only in south asian region but globally as well.
Aayojan Developers vs ITO (Ahemdabad High Court) -Merely because of the fact that the assessee had asserted that it is a developer in the returns filed by him, it cannot be said that there is any failure on the part of the petitioner to disclose fully and truly all material facts. At best, the petitioner has made a claim along with supporting documents, namely, development agreements for construction of housing projects, etc. and based upon the said documents, the Assessing Officer had formed an opinion and granted deduction under section 80-IB(10) of the Act. As to whether in a given set of facts, the assessee is a developer or a works contractor is a matter of inference. Hence, the assertion that the petitioner is a developer, without anything more cannot be said to be an incorrect disclosure of facts, as is sought to be contended on behalf of the revenue. In the circumstances, in the absence of any failure on the part of the petitioner to disclose fully and truly all material facts necessary for its assessment for the assessment year under consideration, the assumption of jurisdiction under section 147 of the Act after the expiry of four years from the end of the relevant assessment year is illegal and invalid. The proceedings under section 147 of the Act which have been initiated by issuance of the impugned notice under section 148 of the Act, therefore, cannot be sustained.
The Government of India has decided to raise the limit for external commercial borrowings to $30 billion from $20 billion before, a senior finance ministry official said on Friday. The government has decided not to raise the foreign institutional investor limit in government bonds, said the official, who did not wish to be named. FIIs can invest up to $10 billion in government bonds currently.
The finance ministry has cleared the Reserve Bank of India’s draft guidelines on new bank licences with a rider that the existing 74% cap on foreign direct investment be retained. The central bank, which had proposed capping FDI in new banks at 49% in the first 10 years, is likely to make the guidelines public and may seek comments from all stakeholders again. “We have given our final approval to the RBI and requested them to share the final guidelines after they incorporate comments from other stakeholders,” said a senior finance ministry official.
The Government has constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to examine ways to strengthen laws to curb the generation of black money in the country, its illegal transfer abroad and its recovery. The Committee will examine the existing legal and administrative framework to deal with the menace of generation of black money through illegal means including, inter alia,
Transparency in Survey operations – For bringing transparency in survey operations and obviate the possibility of any grievance to the taxpayers, it is decided that henceforth: Survey teams visiting taxpayer’s premises under the provisions of section 133 A of the Income tax Act will, before the commencement of survey proceedings,provide to the taxpayer the names, designations & contact numbers of their Chief Commissioner, Commissioner &Additional/ Joint Commissioner of Income Tax.
Who can use this Return Form This Return Form is to be used by an individual whose total income for the assessment year 2011-12 includes:‑ (a) Income from Salary/ Pension; or (b) Income from One House Property (excluding cases where loss is brought forward from previous years); or (c) Income from Other Sources (excluding Winning from Lottery and Income from Race Horses)
