I need not reiterate the fact that Company Law is complicated everywhere in view of its exposure, the interest of the stake holders, plethora of regulations, the stakes and the responsibility of the state or the statutory authorities. As everybody knows, in India, the jurisdiction to decide company disputes substantially rests with the Company Court and the Company Law Board.
Tax slabs liberalized :-The most significant and far reaching change proposed is the amendment in the income tax slabs. This move is a definite step towards taking the tax slabs to the proposed Direct taxes code (DTC) to be implemented in next year.
Real Estate sector which is slowly coming out of the Mid 2008 slump, has received good support from Union Budget 2010-11. While the budget has encouraged affordable housing below Rs 20 lakhs with 1% interest subvention for housing loan upto 10 lakhs and extension of benefits available under section 80IB by one more year, extension of some services are extended so as to bring under service tax impacting the industry in difficult times.
Following eight new services are proposed to be introduced: Services of promoting, marketing or organizing of games of chance, including lottery [Section 65 (105) (zzzzn)]. Health services, namely, health check up undertaken by hospitals or medical establishments for the employees of business entities; and health services provided under health insurance schemes offered by insurance companies.[Section 65 (105) (zzzzo)]
The assessee procured a foreign currency loan for expansion of its existing business. To ensure availability of foreign currency, the assessee booked forward contracts with a bank. The contract was for the entire amount and delivery of foreign currency was obtained from the bank for the installment due from time to time.
The Authority of Advance Rulings (AAR) has ruled that fees received by a foreign company for assigning contractual rights to an Indian entity is not taxable in India. The ruling of the AAR –– a quasi-judicial forum deciding queries on matters of international taxation — came on a query from an Indian company that had paid a foreign company for assigning part of a global contract with Nokia Corporation for supplying equipment.
The Reserve Bank of India is likely to announce its draft guidelines on the compensation packages of private sector bank Chiefs by next month, a move aimed at aligning the salary structures with the business performance.”The indications are that the draft paper will be out by March. This would be aimed at putting a framework in the way banks compensate their CEOs and other top executives,” a source in the know told PTI.
The Institute today boasts of a very strong intellectual heritage and tradition of trust that our nation has in it, and it is my honour to be a part of this heritage and tradition. I understand the highest office, i.e.,the President’s office, of the Institute brings along with itself many a duty and responsibility that I can only sincerely promise to do justice to at this stage.
Search means not looking for something which is produced or Open but which is hidden, concealed or not obvious. The word has varied meanings and it should be given the general meanings ‘to look for’ or ‘to seek’ which are well known meaning attributable to the word in the context of section 132 as has judicially been held in Assainar Vs ITO reported in 101 ITR 854.
Besides the traditional fields of Statutory Audit, Internal Audit and Tax Audit there is vast scope for CAs in providing services such as Surveyors, Loss Assessors, Claim Assurors, Claim Negotiators etc., 1.2 Amidst this golden phase of transition and sky-rocketing growth graph of insurance industry, only sky is the limit for all the enterprising accountants as the king-size pool of whole new opportunities beckon them. The insurance cake is getting bigger and better and Chartered Accountants can not only have it but eat it too.
