Attention is invited to Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), Notification No. 21/2002-Customs dated 01.03 2002 and Notification No. 33/2010-Customs dated 12.03.2010. As per these, import of four items viz., (1) Skimmed and whole milk powder, milk food for babies etc. (0402.10 or 0402.21) and White Butter, Butter oil, Anhydrous Milk Fat (0405) (2) Maize (corn): other (1005.90) (3) Crude sunflower seed or safflower oil or fractions thereof (1512.11) and (4) Refined rape, colza or mustard oil, other (1514.19 or 1514.99) is allowed in a financial year, up to quantities as well as such concessional rates of customs duty as indicated below:
Government of Maharashtra has raised the rate of tax under Schedule ‘C’ of Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 from 4 per cent to 5% on goods other than declared goods with effect from 1st April 2010. A notification to this effect has been issued as referred above. While issuing the notification, an inadvertent error had crept in, leading to inference that some fabrics & sugar would become taxable from 1st April 2010.
The Geneva-based International Air Transport Association (IATA) has written to the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, calling for a relook at the Budget 2010-11 proposal to levy a service tax on domestic and international air transport.
The Government has informed the Parliament that the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has so far investigated cases relating to 49 companies. Giving this information in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister for Corporate Affairs, said that the SFIO has no power to convict the companies as powers to convict are vested with the Courts only. SFIO files cases in the appropriate judicial court for penal action after investigation.
Accounting Standard (AS) 10 (Revised 20XX) (Corresponding to IAS 16) Property, Plant and Equipment (Comments to be received by 19 April 2010). Accounting Standard (AS) 11 (Revised 20XX) (Corresponding to IAS 21) The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates (Comments to be received by 19 April 2010)
A number of clients have raised a query whether any amendment of section 50C of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (the Act), has been proposed by the Finance Bill, 2010. The aforesaid query, has got its genesis in the amendment of sub-clause (b) of section 56(2)(vii) of the Act, as proposed by the Finance Bill, 2010. As per the aforesaid amendment, the stipulation regarding transactions involving cases of consideration lower than its stamp duty value
The central council of accounting regulator Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) met on March 13 to consider a second report submitted by its high power committee on Satyam. The committee, set up in the aftermath of Satyam audit failure, has come down heavily on the functioning of Big 4 firms – Deloitte, PwC, KPMG and Ernst and Young.
Turning the table on the Big Four audit firms about their India plans, corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid has asked them to spell out unambiguously if they intend to start full-fledged operations in India, and be fully accountable for their operations in the country if permits are given.
These persons are required to furnish within prescribed time certificates for tax deduction to payees and also to file returns with tax authorities. In case of defaults or non-compliance with the provisions, huge burdens of penalty are laid and/or substantial mandatory interest is levied over the shoulders of the deductor. These persons are also liable to be prosecuted in criminal courts and or imprisonment for failure to deduct or deposit the tax so deducted at source.
Placement document is to be as per the requirements of Chapter VIII of ICDR with a disclaimer in bold capital letters that “the placement is meant only for QIBs on a private placement basis and is not an offer to the public or to any other class of investors.”
