Those exercising the option include Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Communications, Tulip Telecom, Moser Baer, Jubilant Organosys, Radico Khaitan, Hotel Leela, Pidilite Industries and Uflex. Together, these firms have bought back bonds worth $240 million (around Rs 1,200 crore) at a discount of 30 to 50 per cent on the face value.
The Central Information Commission feels that details of property belonging to government servants and even judges of the high courts and the Supreme Court are subject to the purview of the Right To Information (RTI) Act but some government departments, including the Income-Tax department, seem to think otherwise.
Under the Income Tax Act, the total tax liability has to be paid in installments as advance tax on or before specified due dates. Credit is given to the assessee for advance tax paid by him at the time of determining his final tax liability. Any remaining amount has to be paid as self-assessment tax […]
Auditors may get powers to refuse signing a company’s accounts if these are not found to be in order. A special group constituted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the statutory body regulating the profession in India, is veering round to the view that the institute should push for statutory backing to […]
Companies may soon have to get their financial statements vetted by more than one auditor. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the country’s accounting and auditing rule-maker, is considering a proposal to make it mandatory for companies to get their books audited by more than one auditor so that each of the audit […]
Domestic shareholders who sell shares of Satyam Computer Services in the open offer made by a strategic investor will have to pay tax on capital gains. Tax will be charged, irrespective of the period of holding the shares, since an open offer is an off-market transaction. In an open offer, the acquirer makes a public […]
Banks are therefore advised to strictly comply with the provisions of Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and Banking Companies (Nomination) Rules, 1985 and devise a proper system of acknowledging the receipt of the duly completed form of nomination, cancellation and / or variation of the nomination. Such acknowledgement should be given to all the customers irrespective of whether the same is demanded by the customers.
The Finance Ministry has turned down a Commerce Ministry proposal to provide relaxation to exporters, reeling under the impact of the global financial meltdown, from payment of FBT, saying such benefits cannot be granted to one section of taxpayers. The issue of relaxing the Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) norms for foreign travel undertaken for export […]
Under company law, a director of a company is not personally liable for the company’s debts unless a court of competent jurisdiction finds him guilty of misfeasance. Company law proceeds on the basic principle of jurisprudence that a director is presumed to be innocent unless he is proved to be otherwise. These salient principles of […]
The income-tax department has commenced a series of raids on divisions of the state’s electricity department unofficially citing irregularities in tax deduction at source (TDS), while the excise and customs department has sought details on sale of power to consumers. Officials in the electricity department told TOI that they received notices from the IT department […]
