As per a recent circular issued by the government in respect of PPF provisions, following clarifications are worth noting. Deposit date in Cheque payments :-Till recently, in case of a PPF when a subscriber used to make deposits by local cheque or demand draft, the date of tender of cheque or draft at the accounting office was treated as the date of deposit of PPF, provided the said cheque was duly honoured on presentation for encashment.
Services of promoting of a brand of goods, services, event, business entity etc is now proposed to be under service tax net from a notified date (not now). According to new clause (zzzq) of section 65(105) of Finance Act, 1994, any service provided or to be provided to any person, by any other person, through a business entity or otherwise, under a contract for promotion or marketing of a brand of goods, service, event or endorsement of name, including a trade name, logo or house mark of a business entity by appearing in advertisement and promotional event or carrying out any promotional activity for such goods, service or event will be taxable.
It was the then wandering monk, Swami Vivekananda who instilled the idea of a steel plant in India in the then merchant Jamshedji N. Tata during their journey in a ship together form the port of Oklahama in Japan to Boston in USA. The first steel plant in the country came up at Jamshedpur in the year 1912 under the entrepreneurship of Jamshedji N. Tata.
The finance ministry may exclude land value from the ambit of a new tax on under-construction houses, potentially taking the sting out of the proposed levy after it ran into a storm of protests from the real estate sector and exposed fissures within the government. The 2010-11 budget has proposed a 10% service tax on 33% of the total cost of under-construction houses, which could increase the price tag of such properties by 3.3%. The new tax will come into effect once the budget is approved by Parliament.
Over 150 countries have implemented or announced plans to migrate to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). India proposes to adopt IFRS from the accounting period starting April 2011 or later. The uniformity in accounting and disclosure standards will enable all stakeholders to understand the performance of entities and make comparisons across sectors and countries. However, the challenges cannot be underestimated as some countries that adopted IFRS took over two years for complete convergence.
Applications are invited from ISA qualified members having working experience of five years to review the functioning of ITT centres of the ICAI. The member should preferably be from Proprietary firms/ Partnership firm with a maximum of three members.
Need for having separate laws meant for the securities market surfaced in the late eighties which became a reality in early nineties. Orderly development and protection of investors became the objective of the Government without which the capital market would not develop.
Supreme Court in the case of TRF Limited held that post amendment (with effect from 1 April 1989) to claim deduction for the bad debts under section 36( 1)(iii) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) it is not necessary for the taxpayer to establish that the debt has actually become irrecoverable. It is sufficient if the bad debt is written off as irrecoverable in the books of accounts of the taxpayer.
The finance ministry will soon unveil a new format for income-tax returns that will hopefully make tax filing easier for the salaried and pensioners. Theoretically, redesigning a returns form should not be as complex as, say, rewriting archaic income-tax laws. Taxmen have, however, been grappling with the new format for over six months as the challenge is to make it really simple.
Top multinational accounting firms (MAFs) — PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Ernst & Young and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu —have flouted norms to provide services in India, a report by an Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) committee has said.
