The present crisis of confidence in the audit profession among users and stakeholders, arising from recent market events has to be addressed in a fair manner. The profession, regulators and all concerned have to determine – what is the right medicine? A professional issue requires a professional response. Thus, the fundamental point is that the […]
The income tax (I-T) department has widened the scope of the investigation of the tax liability on Vodafone-Essar, India’s fourth-largest mobile service provider, to other offshore transactions associated with Vodafone’s buyout of Hutchison Whampoa’s 67 per cent stake in an $11.08 billion deal in 2007. Sources close to the development said the department had sent […]
1. What is a trade mark? A trade mark (popularly known as brand name) in layman’s language is a visual symbol which may be a word signature, name, device, label, numerals or combination of colours used by one undertaking on goods or services or other articles of commerce to distinguish it from other similar goods […]
THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the regulatory body for the accounting profession, plans to scrutinise books of companies that have seen independent directors resign in the last two months, after the role of such directors came under intense scrutiny in the wake of the major financial fraud at Satyam Computer Services. Some […]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed global management and consultancy firm ERNST & YOUNG to review the performance of its 80 chief general managers. According to an RBI spokesperson, E&Y will design and facilitate a 360-degree evaluation of the senior functionaries and a give feedback to the central bank. * The 360-degree evaluation […]
The matter has been examined in this Directorate and it is informed that in terms of paragraph 4.4.3 to be read with paragraph 4.1.13 of FTP and paragraph 4.12 and 4.72 of HBP v.1, restricted items (other than prohibited items and the items reserved for import by State Trading Enterprises or otherwise specifically mentioned for the purpose) can be imported against the transferred DFIAs without the requirement of a separate import licence / authorisation subject to the condition that the exports have been completed prior to the effective date of restriction on imports [unless otherwise mentioned in the said notification(s)].
In the wake of Rs 7,000 crore Satyam fraud, Sebi had announced that it would ask an independent team of auditors to conduct a peer review of the working papers of the financial statements of the auditors of listed companies. “We feel such that an audit should be conducted by the ICWAI and discussions for […]
Official sources said that a CBI team was in Mumbai to understand the share transactions of the Satyam group of companies on the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange. The CBI appears to have got hold of evidence to prove how Satyam Computer’s revenues were inflated and has sent its officials to Mumbai […]
Instruction No. 2/2009 dated 09.03.2009 Section 10B of the Income tax Act provides for exemption of income in case of hundred per cent export oriented undertakings subject to prescribed conditions. Explanation 2 (iv) below to the said section defines a “hundred percent export oriented undertaking” as an undertaking so approved by the Board appointed in […]
Where the assessee suo motu filed returns as “agent” of a non-resident but no assessment was made and after the expiry of two years from the end of the assessment year a notice under section 148 of the Act seeking to assess the income and the question arose whether the said notice was barred by limitation u/s 149 (3), HELD:
