The Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) at its meeting held on 19th January 2014, requested CS S. N. Ananthasubramanian, President and CS Harish K. Vaid, Vice President to continue to hold office in terms of section 12 (4) of the Company Secretaries Act, 1980 until such time as a new President and a new Vice President are elected and take charge of their duties.
In this computer era, all records of business enterprises are maintained in computers and voluntary compliance of return filing U/s 139 of Income-Tax Act are also sought in digital format. Return preparation utilities are provided by the Deptt. so that there may not be any instance of wrong claims or deduction, unless there is bug in the utility provided.
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval forinclusion of Jains as a minority under Section 2 (c ) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992 and the Attorney General through the Ministry of Law and Justice has opined that this would be neither be illegal nor unconstitutional.
Delhi Service Tax Commissionerate arrested the Chief Financial Officer(CFO) of an Aviation Company on last Saturday, 18th January, 2014 for evasion of service tax amounting to more than Rs. one crore. The Company provides helicopter chartering services. The concerned company is also suspected to have fraudulently availed CENVAT Credit of more than Rs. 30 lakhs. […]
As a prudential measure, it has been decided to prescribe a Loan to Value (LTV) Ratio of not exceeding 75 per cent for banks’ lending against Gold jewellery (including bullet repayment loans against pledge of gold jewellery). Therefore, henceforth loans sanctioned by banks should not exceed 75 per cent of the value of gold ornaments and jewellery.
The Reserve Bank of India has constituted an Expert Committee to Review Governance of Boards of Banks in India. The Committee would be chaired by Shri P. J. Nayak, former Chairman and CEO of Axis Bank; the other members being Shri S. Raman, Whole Time Member, Securities & Exchange Board of India, Smt. Shubhalakshmi Panse, […]
We have been receiving references from market participants as to whether, along similar lines, it is possible for FIIs and other foreign investors to effect remittances on cash /TOM /spot basis to a bank other than the designated AD Category -I custodian bank.
Following position limits were prescribed for FIIs: The gross open positions of the FII across all contracts shall not exceed 10% of the total open interest or INR 600 crores, whichever is higher.
In rule 12 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, after the brackets, letters, figures and words, “[GSR 307(E), dated the 25thApril, 2007]” the words, figures, letters and brackets, “or No.1/2010-Central Excise, dated the 6th February, 2010 [G.S.R. 62(E), dated the 6th February, 2010]” shall be inserted.
It is clarified that the service tax component comprised in the amount payable to a resident is indicated separately, tax shall be deducted at source under Chapter XVJI-B of the Act on the amount paid/payable without including such service tax component.