CA, CS, CMA : Explore the latest developments as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India adopts an end-to-end digital framework, delving in...
CA, CS, CMA : भारतीय सीए संस्थान ने २ नवंबर २०२२ को वर्ष २०२१-२२...
CA, CS, CMA : A CA firm who applied for empanelment with CAG for Financial Year 2012-13 can check the status of his Empanelment & Audit work all...
Goods and Services Tax : CAG is one of the pivotal offices in the Government of India who controls the entire financial system of the country. The appointm...
Goods and Services Tax : In this series, one of the important areas covered is CAG Reports. There is a general tendency to look at CAG Report as an additio...
Income Tax : The audit found widespread incorrect claims of deductions for bad debts and reserves. It highlights the need for stricter verifica...
CA, CS, CMA : The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has invited Expressions of Willingness from empaneled CA firms with minimum 15 points...
CA, CS, CMA : CAG opens 2026–27 empanelment under Sec 139(5)&(7). Online form, acknowledgement & hard copy by 10 March mandatory or applicati...
CA, CS, CMA : Firms facing advisories, misconduct findings, or debarment face point reductions or outright ineligibility. The policy reinforces ...
CA, CS, CMA : The draft policy proposes a detailed scoring framework to empanel CA firms and LLPs for government audits based on capacity, exper...
CA, CS, CMA : The court examined whether disciplinary findings based on impersonation and unauthorised audits could be reopened. It upheld dismi...
Goods and Services Tax : Punjab & Haryana HC stays SCN issued to Abbott Healthcare, questioning CAG's authority for private audits and procedural irregular...
Income Tax : It seems CAs are under attack from all parts of the world for good or not so good reasons. Recently CAG in its report Criticised C...
Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court has dismissed two writ petitions filed by N.Gopalaswami (Former CEC) & others and Manohar Lal Sharma, Advocat...
Finance : The Delhi High Court has delivered a judgement in the case of Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India Versus Uni...
Custom Duty : The audit found widespread control gaps, delayed processing, and weak automation in duty drawback administration. These deficienci...
Goods and Services Tax : The audit uncovered large-scale mismatches and non-compliance in GST filings and payments. It highlights risks from ineligible ITC...
Income Tax : A CAG audit report on direct taxes for FY 2022-23 reveals over ₹7,929 crore in tax effect from 481 observations, highlighting as...
Company Law : The CAG has issued revised directions for statutory auditors of government companies, effective May 23, 2025, covering investment ...
Income Tax : The CAG's 2024 report on direct taxes highlights tax issues, recovery, and errors in corporate and income tax assessments, with co...
This performance audit covered the assessment of private hospitals, nursing homes/medical clinics, medical colleges/research institutes, diagnostic centres, pathological labs, medical supplies agencies/stores including those running on ‘not for-profit basis’, and healthcare delivery professionals which included cases of scrutiny assessments, appeal and rectification cases completed during the period from 2012-13 to 2015-16.
Criteria for verification of TDS returns-CAG recommend that the CBDT may prescribe the procedure and criteria for selection of TDS returns for verification.
CBEC constituted, in 2004, a Centralised Task Force (CTF) to co-ordinate, facilitate, monitor and oversee the efforts of Customs and Central Excise field formations in recovery of arrears. We observed that though the Task Force was entrusted with finalising and implementing strategies for realisation of arrears it did not take any such action for realisation of arrears.
CAG in its Report No. 2 of 2017 (Direct Taxes) pointed out mistake in business rules relating to matching of TDS with offered income. Full potential of CPC such as AST-CPC interface for accessing demand/refund information, information available with AO not used in processing returns, non-linking of previous years’ ITRs resulting in excess deduction, was not realised due to not changing the definition of ‘processing’.
Report No.1 of 2017 – Union Government (Indirect Taxes – Customs) has 101 paragraphs with revenue implication of Rs. 495 crore and two subject specific compliance paragraphs of Rs. 568 crore. In addition systemic and internal control deficiencies involving revenue of Rs. 6430 crore have been included in the report.
The Performance Audit of CAG revealed deficiencies in the design and enabling provisions of the Service Tax Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme, 2013 (VCES), non-compliance to provisions prescribed in various stages and inadequacies in tax administration
The CAG said that our Governments have taken several initiatives to address the challenges faced by our countries and the people by automating service delivery, choosing partners in development through Public Private Partnership arrangements, opening up economy for foreign direct investments and by focusing on sustainable development.
This office has taken steps to treat the applications as abandoned in which no reply to examination report containing office objections to acceptance of the applications for registration has been received within the period of 30 days as per Trade Marks Act, 1999 and rules made thereunder. It is pertinent to mention that in all such matters the examination reports were already posted on the official website and were also sent to the applicants or their authorised agents concerned individually.
CAG Report No. 2 of 2016 – Compliance Audit on Indirect Taxes-Central Excise Union Government Department of Revenue This Report for the year ended March 2015 has been prepared for submission to the President of India under Article 151 of the Constitution of India. The Report contains significant results of the compliance audit of the […]
Comptroller and Auditor General of India has released Report No. 5 of 2016 – Compliance Audit on Customs Department of Revenue Union Government. This Report for the year ended March 2015 has been prepared for submission to the President of India under the Article 151 of the Constitution of India. The Report contains significant results […]
