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The Supreme Court today said that only chartered or cost accountants will be eligible to audit and certify sales tax returns in bid to prevent evasion. The decision would affect the lawyers specialising in Sales Tax laws and former Sales Tax officers who work as sales tax practitioners.
Tax Audit for the Financial Year 2009-2010 is although over but I am sure most of us have not taken a deceleration from the management regarding the following items appearing in Tax Audit Report. Given Below is the format in which we can now take the deceleration from management which should be dated either by the Tax Audit Report date or a date prior to that.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) said on Thursday it will launch a course of accounting technicians from April 22 for undergraduate students. “We are launching this course considering that there is a need for second tier of accountants, with so many accounting jobs coming up in the country,” ICAI president Ved Jain told reporters here.
Information relating to allocation of auditors/audit firms to various public sector banks for the year 2007-08 is hosted on the web-site of RBI. While forwarding names of audit firms, banks are advised that not more than three branches may be allotted per audit firm and that they should endeavor to give assignments to all the auditors to the extent possible. It may be noted that it may not be necessary that all the audit firms whose names are forwarded/ recommended by RBI to various banks are allotted branch audit by the respective banks, as sufficiently higher number of audit firms are forwarded to banks in order to enable them to allot audit assignments as per their logistic requirements
In what could be a significant deterrent to corporate frauds, the concept of rotation of partners received a green signal from the apex body for chartered accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), and mandates change of partners after seven consecutive years with a listed company. The step, cleared by ICAI, will be operational from April 2009 and is expected to significantly reduce complexity between individual partners in audit firms and their assigned companies, something that has been a cause behind many of the big corporate frauds to have hit the financial world.
Trade Cir. No. 4 T of 2008 Section 31 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 provides for deduction of tax at Source. Section 31(1) (b) (ii) of the Act empowers the Commissioner of Sales Tax to grant certificate to a contractor who is not doing Works contract. Where an application is made by the contractor and if the Commissioner is satisfied that the contract is not a works contract, then, he shall grant him the certificate for non-deduction of tax at source. The Commissioner may, after giving the contractor a reasonable opportunity of being heard, reject the application or cancel or modify such certificate.
FOR the Income Tax Department, the latest ruling of the Larger Bench of the Punjab & Haryana High Court amounts to a big win. And, at the centre of the dispute was whether the interest paid on borrowed capital for purchasing new plant and machinery before the same is put to use is revenue expenditure or to be added to the ‘actual cost’ of the asset? What further complicated the issue was the fact that the assessee was a running company and wanted to set up a new plant by buying new machinery out of borrowed capital.
THE assessee company was incorporated during the financial year 1997-98. Originally, there was a company jointly promoted by Tatas and IBM , which were known as Tata IBM. During the financial year 1997-98, it was mutually agreed between the two promoters to bifurcate the business activities into separate entities viz. IBM Global Services India Private Limited (the assessee company) and Tata IBM . As per the agreement entered into, various assets of the erstwhile Tat IBM were transferred to the assessee company has paid amounts of Rs. 9,38,57,925/ – and Rs. 5.3 Crore on account of transfer of certain employees to the assessee company and on account of transfer of the data base of the domestic business. The assessee company actually paid a sum of Rs. 18.4 crore for the transfer of the employees to the assessee company but claimed an expenditure of Rs. 9,38,57,925/ – as the remaining sum of around Rs. 9.01 crore was attributable to STP Unit, income of which was exempt.
The Institute has been receiving complaints from members of the Institute, proprietary concerns and firms of Chartered Accountants alleging that they have come across audit reports, balance sheets, certificates etc. of different entities submitted by the said entities/someone with Banks, Financial Institutions, Income-Tax Department, etc. wherein they find that their signatures, seal/stamp have been forged and /or such documents have been prepared on their forged letterhead etc. The members of the Institute, proprietary concerns and firms of chartered Accountants have been requesting the Institute to take necessary legal action in such matters.
It was incumbent on the Assessing Officer to show in the reasons recorded by him that any income escaped assessment due to error or omission on the part of the assessee in not disclosing all material facts relevant for assessment of this year. The assessment order does not show any error or omission on the part of the assessee in disclosing all material facts. So the Tribunal held that the CIT(A) was right in cancelling the re-assessment.
