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Revised Guidelines on Credit Default Swaps (CDS) for Corporate Bonds

January 7, 2013 940 Views 0 comment Print

In addition to listed corporate bonds, CDS shall also be permitted on unlisted but rated corporate bonds even for issues other than infrastructure companies. Users shall be allowed to unwind their CDS bought position with original protection seller at mutually agreeable or FIMMDA price. If no agreement is reached, then unwinding has to be done with the original protection seller at FIMMDA price.

Revised Guidelines on Ready Forward Contracts in Corporate Debt Securities

January 7, 2013 873 Views 0 comment Print

Repo in corporate debt shall also be permitted on Commercial Papers, Certificates of Deposit and Non Convertible Debentures of less than one year of original maturity. The minimum haircut, applicable on the market value of the corporate debt securities prevailing on the date of trade of 1st leg, has been revised as under:

Breather Period for Existing Auditors of Listed Companies (Is it 3 Years or 8/13 Years?)

January 7, 2013 3181 Views 0 comment Print

Under the existing provisions of the Companies Act, 1956, the appointment or re-appointment of a statutory auditor of a Company is an annual exercise except in cases of the appointment of first auditor or appointments to fill up casual vacancies. Sub-section (1) of section 139 of the Companies Bill, 2012 proposes to make it mandatory to appoint an auditor for five years at a time (subject to annual ratification).

Due dates for furnishing ITR-V for AYs 2010-11, 2011-12 & 2012-13 extended

January 7, 2013 7003 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 1/2013 – Income Tax Director General of Income Tax (System) hereby extends the time limit for filing ITR-V forms relating to Income Tax Returns filed electronically (without digital signature Certificate) for A.Y. 2010-11 [Filed during F.Y. 2011-12] and for ITRs of A.Y. 2011-12 [filed on or after 1-4-2011] till 28th February, 2013.

Company to pay employee bonus who proved that he was employee of the company

January 7, 2013 741 Views 0 comment Print

The bunch of correspondence relied upon by the petitioner has been collectively annexed as annexure “C” to the petition and referred to at paragraph 8 of the petition. The affidavit-in-opposition deals with paragraph 8 of the petition at paragraph 9 thereof and does not question the authenticity of the copy documents appended as annexure C to the petition.

Penalty u/s. 271BA justified for Failure to furnish Form No. 3CEB, even if return is filed electronically

January 7, 2013 17066 Views 0 comment Print

The contention of the assessee that return of income in electronic form was not to accompany the report in Form 3 CEB is not correct. The assessee was required to file the report under section 92E, read with rule 10E, before the specified date i.e., the due date for filing of the return.

Income tax Appeal by department not maintainable if tax effect is lower than prescribed by CBDT

January 7, 2013 870 Views 0 comment Print

No appeal is required to be filed when tax effect is less than Rs. 2 lakhs. The conditions mentioned in Clause-3 of the Circular dated 27.3.2000, are not attracted in this appeal. The circular has been issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes and is binding upon the Department.

RBI may stick to 6 crores limit for March 2013 Statutory Branch Bank Audits

January 6, 2013 3730 Views 0 comment Print

As per internal Sources Reserve Bank of India has decided to stick to 6 crores limit for March 2013 Statutory Branch Bank Audits. As per the reliable source, in spite of clearance for 20 crores limit, RBI is going ahead with last year agreed limit of 6 crores. RBI shall finalize its Empanelment by the end of last week of January 2013/ First week of February 2013.

Prior to 1-4-2011 there was no requirement to maintain separate a/c for trading activities

January 6, 2013 1625 Views 0 comment Print

It is not in dispute that the Bangalore office of the company was a registered input service distributor and it distributed input services under cover of valid invoices to the various manufacturing units, eight in number, which were engaged in the manufacture of pharmaceutical formulations (dutiable final products).

Onus on revenue to prove that expense disallowed u/s. 40A(2)(b) were excessive or unreasonable

January 6, 2013 5097 Views 0 comment Print

It is not pointed out as to how the expenses incurred are excessive or unreasonable therefore, such expenditure can be disallowed by invoking the provisions of Section 40(A)(2) of the Act. In view of this matter, we do not find any infirmity into the order passed by Ld. CIT(A). Therefore the appeal filed by the Revenue is dismissed.

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