To All the Members, This has reference to the announcement regarding the transfer of articles dated 27th March, 2009.In view of the transitional difficulties experienced by members and students in the matter of transfer of articles, effected on or prior to 27th March, 2009, Institute with a view to mitigate the difficulties so experienced, […]
A new form introduced by the Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT) to improve tax deductions at source (TDS) has allegedly made the process more cumbersome, and may even prompt the government to put the transition to the new regime in abeyance. The new form for tax deductors — those responsible for deducting tax while […]
Profits earned from the sale of jaggery will be taxed as converting sugarcane into a saleable commodity like jaggery or gur is not an agricultural operation, a tax tribunal has ruled. “Profit from the sale of jaggery falls beyond the ken of agriculture income,” the Chennai bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) said, adding there is no nexus between jaggery and agricultural operations.
CAPITAL adequacy ratio—the minimum amount of capital banks have to set aside while lending—of Indian banks would continue to remain higher than the minimum regulatory requirement of 9% even if sticky loans, or NPAs, were to more than double. Addressing a seminar at the the London Business School on Thursday, RBI deputy governor Rakesh Mohan […]
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the apex body to regulate the profession of chartered accountancy in the country, has selected 1,240 listed firms for peer review. According to ICAI President Uttam Prakash Agarwal, the peer review of these firms will be completed on a fast track basis and till now 4,000 firms […]
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has refrained from directly appointing statutory auditors, by retaining the practice of prescribing eligibility criteria for appointment of auditors by insurers. IRDA would not have a panel of auditors and would not appoint auditors, as demanded by accounting regulator ICAI. The regulator has not been maintaining panel of auditors since 2005 and instead […]
High value clearing, the facility that enables depositors to encash cheques drawn for over Rs 1 lakh the next day, is set to be phased out. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the minimum value for high value clearing to Rs 5 lakh from May. This will be increased further to Rs 10 […]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has informed banks that some of the modifications allowed to facilitate restructuring of non-performing assets(NPA) in view of the ongoing downturn in the Indian economy will be withdrawn from July 1 2009. “The circulars dated December 8, 2008, January 2, 2009 and February 4, 2009 for restructuring of accounts […]
Large companies may, henceforth, not find it easy to escape the taxman’s net with regard to the interest paid or payable to the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) on overdue payments to them. Currently, interest paid or payable to MSMEs is not admissible as a deductible expenditure for income-tax purposes. This has been specified […]
The Reserve Bank on Tuesday said it would deal with the problem of black money being hidden in tax havens by continuously updating its regulations in line with the G-20 guidelines on strengthening transparency in cross-border movement of capital. “The Reserve Bank would continue to incorporate in its regulations latest international best practices (to deal […]
