The Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri S. Jaipal Reddy informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today that the cost of production by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) and Oil India Limited (OIL) in the year 2010-11 is US$ 37.29 per barrel and US$ 27.76 per barrel respectively.
Revised Form 23AC and Form 23ACA will be available on the MCA Portal, effective 12th August, 2011. All Stakeholders are requested to use new version w.e.f. 12th August, 2011 (6.00 AM) as the current version of these forms will be discontinued on MCA Portal.
Notification No. 81/2011 – Income Tax [F.NO.V.27015/3/2011-SO(NAT.COM)/S.O. 1860(E), DATED 11-8-2011 -In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government, on the recommendations of the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare, hereby notifies the institutions approved by the said National Committee,
Trade Notice 15 dated 10th August, 2011 In this Trade Notice (para 4) it was provided that the concerned exporters may approach the RC issuing Authorities within 3 days alongwith all necessary documents for rectification of error if any. The concerned RAs would verify the documents and do rectification if required. After issue of Trade Notice No. 11 of 29.06.2011, many exporters have submitted the documents with RC issuing authorities. These have been verified. After verification, 61 firms have not been found to have defaulted. Accordingly their names have been removed from the list. The list of remaining defaulters is annexed with this Trade Notice.
The application of the software will help the members in efficient documentation in complying with MCA-21 requirements. The details of use and benefits are given on committee’s website on www.icai.org.in. Members may avail the benefits of this arrangement.
Taxability of expenditure in foreign currency in case of M/s ONGC Videsh Ltd – CBEC Clarifies The matter has been examined and it is observed that the said letter does not raise any question of law. The matter that has been referred in the said letter is a question of fact which has to be examined in the light of overseas contracts, joint venture agreements, mandate of OVL and its overseas formations etc.
The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that officers of Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICAS) have a major role to play in facilitating the government in its decision making process through their inputs in solving complex pricing and costing issues. Shri Mukherjee asked the ICAS officers to help in undertaking concurrent audit of escalations claims, examination of subsidy claims, designing cost accounting systems for the public organizations,
During the FY 2009-10 and 2010-11, the annual growth rate of Information Technology (IT) Software and Service sector has been considerably less than the annual average growth rate of the last five years. During this period, the annual growth rate is less than the average annual growth rate of the last five years due to global economic slowdown as over 75% of the total software and service revenue of the country is from exports. The details of annual growth rate of IT Software and Service sector and the average annual growth rate for the last five years is as under:
Circular No. CIR/DNPD/7/2011 In consultation with BSE, MCX-SX, NSE and USE, it has been decided that Stock Exchanges shall levy penalty specified hereunder on trading members for shortcollection/non-collection of margins from clients in Equity and Currency Derivatives segments: If short/non-collection of margins for a client continues for more than 3 consecutive days, then penalty of 5% of the shortfall amount shall be levied for each day of continued shortfall beyond the 3rd day of shortfall.
It has been decided that a variation of – 5% in weight against Registration Certificates issued for export of cotton yarn shall be allowed. Thus a variation of – 5% in weight in exports of cotton yarn against registered contracts shall not be treated as default for the purpose of imposition of penalty or debarment from future registrations.
