Nothing satiates my heart than when some- one paying American tax for the tax year 2019, enquires about technical questions about its preparation. Yes, believe me some one telephoned and held detailed discussions on item No. 9 on Form 1040, intended for an individual tax. Line No. 9 popularly called as “Itemized deductions” has been […]
One of my senior clients telephoned about his tax return of USA for 2019 but with emphasis on 1040 SR. I was not taken aback since for one well versed with US Taxation, change is spice of life. We as CPAs are forced to update our knowledge by CPE stipulations. I am very happy to […]
When Mr R.K. Panjwani, a banking colleague of mine for 40 years congratulated me on the occasion of 50 years of Indian banks nationalization, my mind waded back to RBI Governor, Shaktikanta Das, lecture on 16th November 2019 at Amrut Modi School of Management, Ahmedabad University. Yes, it is time to think about the performance […]
My routine visits to one of the biggest nationalized banks witnessed an interesting interaction between the bank’s Chief Manager and a messenger from a Gurugram court which involved a question to the bank whether it received money from one of the 63 accounts maintained by a defaulter builder with the said bank. It reminded me […]
RBI’s latest Liquidity Risk Management guidelines for Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) RBI in its wisdom issued detailed guidelines on liquidity risk management for NBFCs on November 4, 2019 with non-deposit taking NBFCs with asset size of Rs. 100 Crore and above, systematically important Core investment companies and all deposit taking NBFCs irrespective of their asset […]
Effective governance of compensation – The Board of Directors to oversee compensation system’s design and operation, monitor the compensation system, and staff engaged in financial and risk control must be independent and compensated irrespective of the areas supervised by them. All in altruistic sense.
As an Insolvency professional since 2018 and just requesting Adjudicating authority(one of the court judges of NCLT, New Delhi, in simpleton’s language) to relieve me of the duties as Interim Resolution Professional, after completion of task assigned, I am left with the thinking to analyze who is an interim resolution professional(IRP), what role he/she plays […]
A small kid asked me whether he/she could set up a small finance bank and help his relatives living in a small village in Himachal Pradesh. To answer this question and being a retired senior executive from a nationalized bank who worked in the department dealing with financing small borrowers in late 1970s, I was […]
The concept of class action was introduced in India under the Companies Act, 2013. But this article analyses the same under the heading “collective redress” on the basis of” European Commission’s 2013 Recommendation on Collective Redress” in Europe. In a lay man’s language, the class suit is initiated by an individual or a small group […]
American business to watch for these monumental changes include corporations, S Corporations, partnerships like LLCs and sole proprietorships. I gleefully agree that as a business owner or self-employed individual one may like to review tax reform sections that may affect the bottom line of the business.
