To prevent recurrence of Satyam-like frauds, the ICAI on Monday tightened the auditing standards by introducing new guidelines which will enable auditors interlink information and reports of other stakeholders and evaluate them. The two new standards on auditing, said Atul Kumar Gupta, member of the regional council of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), […]
The Council in its 281st meeting held from 3rd to 5th October, 2008 decided that an internal auditor of an assessee, whether working with the organization or an independently practicing Chartered Accountant being an individual chartered accountants or a firm of chartered accountants, could not be appointed as his tax auditor. The said decision came […]
The Supreme Court has ruled that the foreign exchange earned by transferring the rights of exploitation of the films outside India by way of lease is admissible for deduction under Section 80HHC of the Income-Tax Act, 1961.
Under the Income Tax Act, the total tax liability has to be paid in installments as advance tax on or before specified due dates. Credit is given to the assessee for advance tax paid by him at the time of determining his final tax liability. Any remaining amount has to be paid as self-assessment tax […]
Companies may soon have to get their financial statements vetted by more than one auditor. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the country’s accounting and auditing rule-maker, is considering a proposal to make it mandatory for companies to get their books audited by more than one auditor so that each of the audit […]
Dear Members, As You may be aware that ICAI ( Institute of Chartered Accountants of India) general election will be held in DEC 2009.You can vote only in the city of your professional address as per ICAI Database. Pls check your address by clicking the link given below:- http://220.227. 161.82/locm.asp Click on http://www.icai. org/addupdate to […]
The accent of the statute is ‘an allowance or deduction has been made in the assessment for any year in respect of loss, expenditure or trading liability’. The condition for applying Section 41(1) is the allowance of deduction earlier and subjecting it to tax later on its waiver. Explanation 1 to Section 41(1) covers even unilateral transfer of liability by write off in the books of account by the taxpayer.
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of Unison Electronics (P) Ltd against the ruling of the Customs, Excise & Service Tribunal (CESTAT) that denied excise duty exemption for goods which carried brand names of other companies. Under a central government notification, small scale industries were provided exemption in excise duty, but not those units which bore brand name or trade name of other companies.
Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Kerala The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Kerala high court and held in the case, Atul Commodities Pvt. Ltd vs Commissioner of Customs, that import of second hand photocopy machines before January 2005 required no import licence according to the circulars of the Director General of Foreign Trade.
Less than a week after third-quarter GDP estimates showed a lower-than-expected 5.3 per cent growth rate, the Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday surprised the market and sent fresh signals to banks to lower lending and deposit rates by pruning the repo rate and the reverse repo rate by 50 basis points each. The repo […]
