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Medico-legal reports cannot be refused under the RTI Act

November 5, 2009 2269 Views 0 comment Print

Medico-legal reports cannot be refused under the RTI Act, the CIC has held saying unlike normal medical cases, they are not prepared at the instance of the patient but are legal requirement.“Medico legal cases (MLCs) are indeed legal requirements in criminal cases and not prepared at the instance of the patient but to record injuries inflicted on a person, to be used by courts in criminal proceedings and hence are not held in fiduciary relation with the patient and that refusal of information under Section 8(1)(e) is unsustainable,” Information Commissioner Annapurna Dixit said.

PWC approached Delhi HC seeking quashing of proceedings against it, Clean Chit from ICAI

November 5, 2009 495 Views 0 comment Print

The Delhi-based franchise of audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers today approached the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of proceedings initiated against it by the government in the aftermath of Satyam scam. It pleaded before the court that the government proceedings were illegal as they have no connection with the Bangalore-based franchise which had audited Satyam accounts.

Formation & Taxation of Charitable Trust

November 3, 2009 61397 Views 25 comments Print

A public charitable or religious institution can be formed either as a Trust or as a Society or as a Company registered u/s 25 of the Companies Act. It generally takes the form of a trust when it is formed primarily by one or more persons. To form a Society at least seven persons are required. Institutions engaged in promotion of art, culture, commerce etc. are often registered as non-profit companies.

Verification Status of Examination papers of Professional Competency Examination (PCE) held in June 2009

November 3, 2009 468 Views 0 comment Print

# Roll Numbers of candidates where no change in marks found click Here All these candidates are being intimated by post. # Roll Numbers of candidates where change in marks found but there is no change in result or exemption in applied papers found click Here Revised Mark Sheet is being sent. # Candidates whose Roll No is not appearing in 1 and 2 above are under process.

Reserve Bank of India will soon issue guidelines on provisioning rules

October 31, 2009 1276 Views 0 comment Print

The Reserve Bank of India will soon issue guidelines on meeting provisioning rules and some banks have sought time to meet them, its deputy governor Shyamala Gopinath said on Friday. “Banks have made certain submissions to us in the policy, in terms of little more time. We are going to come up with guidelines soon,” Gopinath said.

Understanding the Budget process

October 30, 2009 1146 Views 0 comment Print

References to budget can be found in Kautilya’s Arthashastra. It states that the Chancellor should first estimate revenue from each place and sphere of activity under different heads of accounts and then arrive at a grand total. The actual revenue is to be estimated by adding receipts into the treasury for current year and delayed payments received which were due in earlier year/s.

Valuation of Business

October 30, 2009 2185 Views 0 comment Print

The etymology of business refers to the state of being busy, in the context of the individual as well as the community or society. In other words, to be busy is to be doing commercially viable and profitable work.In economics, business is the social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular creative and productive goals, usually to generate profit.

World’s biggest accounting scandals (Other then Satyam)

October 30, 2009 2117 Views 0 comment Print

WorldCom was one of the big success stories of the 1990s. It was a symbol aggressive capitalism. Founded by Bernie Ebbers, one of the most aggressive acquirer during the US mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1990s. WorldCom’s asset value had soared to $180bn before the US capital market started witnessing a downtrend.

ICAI President's message to CA community for November 2009

October 30, 2009 1186 Views 0 comment Print

I am sure most of us are still sharing the Diwali happiness and good wishes with friends and family. The New Year Vikram Samvat 2066 has dawned and has already ushered in a positive atmosphere. The markets are doing well; the economy is making strides and should grow by 6.5 per cent this fiscal. The forecast growth for next year at between 7 and 7.5 per cent would most likely retain India’s status as the second fastest growing economy in the world.

Johnny and Service Tax Refund Part – II

October 30, 2009 867 Views 0 comment Print

In continuation of previous article, elaborating the difficulties in getting the refund claim under GTA service, we in this article are unveiling the problems existing in the Service tax refund mechanism under Port Services (Section 65[105][zn]). This complete scenario is being elaborated with the means of humorous poems and conversation between Johnny (an assessee) and his father but the main motive is to bring out the problems faced by exporters.

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