The Central Board of Direct Taxes has notified the valuation rules for gifts over Rs 50,000 which includes gift in kind too, and these will come into effect retrospectively from October 1, 2009. The transaction value of warrants, preference shares and other such instruments transferred to another individual or a company will now have to be certified by a category-I merchant banker according to CBDT’s new fair market value (FMV) norms for gifts.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC). Giving this information here today the President of ICAI, Shri Amarjit Chopra, said that under it the practicing members of ICAI will provide facility of e-filing of returns and documents to Central Excise and Service Tax assessees through Certified Facilitation Centres (CFCs).
Some of the members have expressed the concern that their matters especially regulatory affairs like Form 2, Form 6, Form 18 etc., are not expeditiously disposed off thereby causing avoidable inconvenience/hardship.
Chartered Accountants in practice for one year or more may become Certified Facilitation Centre (CFC) for providing facilities to Central Excise and Service Tax assessees to file returns and other documents electronically under Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES) Project of the CBEC.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) is working towards creating more number of company secretaries from rural and semi-urban areas in the east, Mamta Binani, the first lady chairperson of the Eastern India Regional Council of ICSI, said on Monday.
The periodic disclosures have been notified by the Authority. In order to have uniformity among the insurers on disclosures and to clarify the doubts raised by certain insurers and other stakeholders, Authority provides the following guidelines on periodic disclosures.
The Legal Services Authority Act, 1987 (`LSA’) was enforced with effect from 9th November,1995 after certain amendments were introduced by the Amendment Act of 1994 to the main act. The Act provides for scope of legal aid support for the economically weak, backward section and disabled persons . Legal Aid scheme was introduced by Justice P.N.Bhagawati under the Legal Aid Committee formed in 1971.
Price movement of a Share and Investment Decisions:It is true that it is very difficult to predict the price movement of a stock of a listed Public Company. The price of a share of a listed Public Company will depend upon the ‘demand and supply rule’. It depends upon the simple fact as to how many are bidding to purchase a particular stock and how many are proposed to sell that stock in a given period.
Laws and rules relating to Indirect Taxes have been evolving on account of development in business models, economic growth of the country, global developments, and technological advances and also with reforms in this field of taxation especially, in the area of service tax.
Wellington: New Zealand may have 30,000 chartered accountants, but a large number of accountancy firms are outsourcing their work to India. At least two New Zealand accountancy firms, including Polson Higgs, have been progressively outsourcing back-office accounting to India, taking advantage of cheaper labour and different time zones.
