Circular No. 1/2009 – Income Tax 11.1 Section 35D provides for deduction of certain specified preliminary expenses. After the commencement of business, the deduction was being allowed to only an industrial undertaking or unit. In order to provide a level playing field to the services sector, the section has been amended to provide the benefit of amortization to all assessees after commencement of his business, in connection with the
The government is considering a proposal to do away with the current system of calculating a product’s cost through a fixed format, a move that will bring in flexibility and reduce compliance costs for companies. In turn, the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI), the apex body regulating the cost accounting profession […]
Institute released two CDs on ‘Bank Branch Audit – An Overview’ recently and made content of these CDs available free of cost to the members associated with Bank Branch Audit. Accordingly they created http links for the said content. Please download the content from the following links: http://www.meficai.org/BankAudit/CD1.zip http://www.meficai.org/BankAudit/CD2.zip After download, you will require WINRAR […]
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) doesn’t seem to have taken the growing doubts over the credibility of chartered accountants (CAs) post-Satyam scam very kindly. President of ICAI Uttam Prakash Agrawal said here on Wednesday that CAs are being targeted unnecessarily in the Rs 7,000-crore scam that jolted the entire nation a few months […]
In what may strain the already troubled relations between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, the Income Tax (I-T) department on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging a seven-month-old order of the Bombay high court, which gave relief to superstar Amitabh Bachchan in a case related to Kaun Banega Crorepati. The move to appeal against […]
In a major relief for India Inc, the National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standard (NACAS), a government-appointed body, has postponed the implementation of Accounting Standard 11 (AS 11) to 2011. This accounting standard deals with mark-to-market provisioning in corporate profit and loss accounts for foreign exchange-related gains and losses. The NACAS decision means domestic firms […]
The taxman has finally caught up with expatriate employees. The Supreme Court today directed Indian subsidiaries of foreign companies employing expatriates to deduct tax at source on their entire salary just as domestic companies do.
For the purposes of this notification, “landed value” means the assessable value as determined under the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and includes all duties of customs except duties levied under sections 3, 8B, 9 and 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act, 1975.
Whereas in the matter of imports of All Fully Drawn or Fully Oriented Yarn/Spin Draw Yarn/Flat Yarn of Polyester (non-textured and non – POY) (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under tariff item 5402 47 00 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, the People’s Republic of China, Thailand and Vietnam (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 21/2002-Customs, dated the 1st March, 2002, which was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
