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The Finance Minister presented the Economic Survey 2009-10 before the Parliament. It is a report card of India’s economic performance which gives the current and expected direction of the Government Policies. The key highlights of the same are given below:
The committee constituted to review the acquisition procedure of the security features for currency notes; review the relevant procurement manuals and suggest a roadmap for progressive indigenization of various inputs including high end machinery and security features submitted its report to the Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee in his North Block Office in New Delhi today.
The Central Vigilance Commission disposed of 541 cases during December 2010 referred to it for advice. The Commission advised imposition of major penalty against 135 officers including 33 from M/o Railways, 30 from MCD, 25 from Public Sector Banks, 6 each from Ministry of Labour and Department of Defence Production,
The Madras High Court has held that an instrument, whether a certificate of sale or sale deed, issued in a public auction of properties, was chargeable with stamp duty under Article 18 read with Article 23 of Schedule I to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899.
1.0 In any civilised society, a taxing statute is expected to be prospective i.e. levying the tax on the income / transaction which will take place in future. This is for the reason that, at the time of entering into the transaction, the tax payers (TP) must have knowledge of the taxes which he is expected to pay. It also provides an opportunity to the TP of carrying out cost-benefit analysis of the proposed transaction and to decide whether to enter into such a transaction or not.
Cases of fraudulent companies selling insurance products in India without a licence from the sector regulator, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda), are on the rise. Several such incidents have come to Irda’s attention in the last eight to ten months.
Will we see a company audited by two audit firms at the same time? That looks a possibility from what the Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs, Mr Salman Khurshid, said on 29.03.2009 while Addressing a meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mr Khurshid said, in the context of making the audit function effective, that there had emerged an idea of dual audit so that there are two companies (firms) in a sense keeping a check on each other.
(a) As you are aware, in terms of Ministry of Finance letter No. F. 3(9)-PD/72 dated September 4, 1972, in the case of Public Provident Fund Scheme, 1968 (PPF) “when a subscriber makes a deposit by local cheque or demand draft, the date of tender of cheque or draft at the Accounting Office is treated as date of deposit, provided the related cheque is honoured on presentation for encashment.”
VODAFONE Essar, the country’s second-largest GSM telco, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the government-appointed special auditors. Auditor SK Mehta and Co in their 140-page report said there were no discrepancies in the books of Vodafone Essar as the telco’s accounting were in line with international standards, but added that the company may have to pay an additional Rs 188 crore as liabilities to the government.
“The next biggest problem may be a currency crisis. It is a possibility that the next crisis awaiting the world is a currency crisis,” renowned currency expert and Non-Executive Director of Elara Capital, Avinash Persaud, told PTI here.
