The Supreme Court last week ruled that Industrial Finance Corporation of India is a ‘public financial institution’ under Section 4A of the Companies Act and it was entitled to invoke the Securitisation Act to enforce a “security interest”. Upholding the view of the Delhi high court in the appeal case, Bharat Steel Tubles Ltd vs IFCI, the apex court stated that the conversion of the IFCI into a company did not alter its position and status as a financial institution in view of Section 5 of the Industrial Finance Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act. All matters, including all benefits, relating to the corporation, stood wholly transferred in favour of the new company.
Notification No. 30/2011 – Customs (N.T.) – These rules may be called the Customs, Central Excise Duties and Service Tax Drawback (Second Amendment) Rules, 2011. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Customs, Central Excise Duties and Service Tax Drawback Rules, 1995, in rule 16(A),-
The company required to get its cost records audited under section 233B (1) of the Companies Act, 1956 shall appoint a cost auditor who is a cost accountant as defined in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959 (23 of 1959) and who holds a valid certificate of practice under sub-section (1) of section 6 of that Act and includes a firm of cost accountants.
Amid introduction of illegal online forex trade by certain companies, the Reserve Bank has asked credit card issuing companies to not permit payments for such transactions. The regulations under Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999, do not permit resident Indians to trade in foreign exchange in domestic or overseas markets.
In order to check the misuse of funds raised by companies via public offerings, the government has directed the Registrar of Companies (RoCs) to look for diversion of IPO funds while inspecting their annual accounts. In a directive to RoCs and Regional Directors, the Corporate Affairs Ministry has asked them last week to check for fund diversions by companies from the objectives stated in the prospectus and related party transactions, and carry out inspections soon after the filing of annual accounts.
In this case, the Commissioner (Appeals) has reduced the tax amount and hence the respondents cannot take advantage of the provision under the fourth proviso to Section 78. Having not paid the penalty amount within one month from the date of the Order-in-Original even though the legal provision was clearly brought to the notice of the respondents by the original authority in para 14 of his order, the respondents cannot be given the benefit of paying 25% of the reduced penalty.
The question whether ‘Mithi River’ is a river or not, is a pure question of fact which needs to be examined and settled at the final hearing stage of the appeal. For the present, we consider the fact that the activity undertaken by the appellant in the aforesaid stream of water was ‘dredging’. Their limited case is that the activity was undertaken in a drain and not in a river. WE note that even the agreement between the appellant and MMRDA describes the stream as ‘Mithi River’. It cannot be called otherwise merely by reason of the fact that rainwater or domestic sewage from the surrounding areas are also flowing into it or that industrial effluents are discharged into it.
We have a case where the equipment is purchased or taken on lease by the applicant. It is proposed to be granted on a lease for a short term (in fact, on behalf of the petitioner it is submitted that it was proposed to grant a lease for two years only). The lease amount or rent is to bear only a small proportion to the cost of the equipment.
In the case of Bharti Cellular the Supreme Court (SC) acknowledged the role of technical experts while deciding on tax issues arising from complex technical matters. The SC, accordingly, directed the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to issue directions to tax authorities, including transfer pricing officers (TPOs), to take opinion of technical experts and bring on record technical evidence in cases involving complex technical issues and substantial revenue. Pursuant to the above, the CBDT has issued Instruction No. 5/2011 [F. No. 225/61/2011 – IT(A-11)] dated 30 March 2011 (Instruction).
The government today said it will continue to focus on fiscal consolidation and would stick to the deficit target for the current fiscal, despite the uncertainty over global crude oil prices. “We are on the fiscal consolidation path. We don’t want to occupy more space in the public borrowing, and we will stick to our fiscal deficit target and our revenue deficit target,” Finance Secretary Sushma Nath said at a CII conference here.
