The ICAI requires additional Schools/ Educational Institutions with good infrastructure and facilities in addition to the existing Examination Centres to hold Chartered Accountants Examinations. Interested parties may see the terms & conditions on our website: www.icai.org. The existing Schools/ Educational Institutions which are already providing accommodation for CA Exams need not apply.
Bank Audits for the FY ended 31.03.2010:-The bank audit season is around the corner. Banking being an industry typical in terms of its geographical and customer spread, volume of transactions as well as the types of products and services offered coupled with the time constraints for completing the audits, the members face a number of issues in their bank audit assignments.
We have pleasure in informing you that Dena Bank has invited online applications for empanelment for Concurrent Audit assignment for the year 2010 – 11. The registration for the same will be open on our there website www.denabank.com from 25.03.10 to 15.04.10.
Notification No. 18/2010-Income Tax In the notification of Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue (Central Board of Direct taxes), number 9/2010 dated 18-02-2010 bearing S.O. 424(E) and published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), dated 18th February, 2010 –
Attention is invited to Circular No. 791/24/2004 dated 01.06.2004 and No. 52/1/2003 dated 11.03.2004 (modified by Circular No. 71/1/2004-ST dated 02.01.2004) prescribing the procedure for electronic filing of Central Excise and Service Tax returns. Attention is also invited to Notification No. 04/2010-Central Excise (NT) and No. 01/2010-ST both dated 19.02.2010 providing for mandatory electronic filing of Excise and Service Tax returns
The Committees will meet at least once a quarter. The Committees would discuss not only the cases which are ripe for write off/scaling down but also the cases which are being processed for write off and cases which have recommended to the Directorate of Income Tax (Recovery), New Delhi, for further processing. This will ensure a continuous review of the unrealizable demand on the registers of the department.”
A regulatory co-ordination committee of the government will rethink a key change to the definition of ‘vanishing company’, which could have watered down the law in respect of such companies. According to the new rule, an entity cannot be called a ‘vanishing company’ if any of its directors — executive or non-executive — can be traced at a later date.
Presently, the corporate entities are liable to pay 15% tax on its book profits u/s. 115JB of the Act, if the said amount is more than the tax computed under the other normal provisions of the Act. Due to the effect of surcharge, education cess and secondary and higher education cess, the effective rate of MAT worked out to be 16.995%.
As per existing provisions of Section 40(a)(ia) of the Act, certain payments made to residents were not allowable as deduction where tax was not deducted or after deduction, was not paid before end of the year. In case where the tax was deducted in the last month of the year, then no disallowance u/s. 40(a)(ia) would be made, so long as the tax was deducted during the year and paid before the due date of filing the return of income.
The income of Non-resident from fees for technical services or from royalty is chargeable to tax as per section – 9(1)(vi) and (vii). In case the non-resident has permanent establishment in India the income shall be computed in accordance to the provisions of the Section – 44DA.
