It is very common to hear the following situation anywhere between any two enlightened Ph.Ds. or retired senior citizen or two bank customers renewing their fixed deposits, discussing heatedly, of late, about the rapid falling in rate of commercial banks’ rate of interest, notwithstanding the happy news of the Prime Minister’s assurance on 8% interest on deposits for seniors.
It was an arranged meeting of friends, all, accounting professionals with more than 30 years of experience when I met two of my friends on a sunny day, recently. We discussed serious accounting issues also, among other things and got into “depreciation standards” in India and abroad for expensing in the tax year. When I […]
As a CPA, I am often requested by my clients whether they can gift anything to their dear ones. The laws governing gift in India and USA differ basically.
RS announced the arrival of US Taxation on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 when IRS would begin accepting electronic tax returns
It happened at Kalkaji Extension, New Delhi, India on a sunny day with a kid of 8 years named Haruto, sometime in 2016, in our central park, a park which has blossomed into a huge and popular one inviting all types of birds, people of various ages, and also my dog Yuma enjoying a peaceful […]
History reverberates with brazen efforts by crooks to mislead honest & tax paying public. Therefore, recent events in Pune, India with news items of bogus call centres & their attempts to threaten U S tax payers was no surprise.
For a U S citizen or a resident alien, the US tax authorities are happy to get them paid the taxes even on their income earned abroad. The case goes back to 1930s when US companies started earning exports in France and UK particularly raising queries on adopting transfer pricing policies.
It was surprisingly a warm day in 2009 in Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA which ranks among the coldest states, when I got a telephone from a young lady, by her talk, I presumed, that her checking account with a local bank in California, USA was frozen by local tax authorities.
Even today, when one hears people from Nilgris, Tamilnadu, India lost Re10 Crores to an unknown financial company, one’s mind goes back to 1930, when the great depression wiped out the whole capital of many investors in USA. Investors in USA craved for accounting standards.
