Union Cabinet meeting on Tuesday cleared the Lokpal Bill, which may be tabled in Parliament on December 22. The final draft of the bill was okayed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier today.
CA, CS, CWA Amendment Bill has been passed by both houses of the Parliament paving the way for LLP and Multidisciplinary Partnerships (MDPs) subject to notification of the relevant provisions, after the assent of the President of India and issue of guidelines for MDPs by the Council.
a. The Bill has 470 clauses and 7 schedules as against 658 Sections and 15 schedules in the existing Companies Act, 1956. b. The entire bill has been divided into 29 chapters. c. Following chapters have been introduced, viz. * Registered Valuers (ch.17); * Government companies (ch. 23); * Companies to furnish information or statistics (ch. 25); * Nidhis (ch. 26); * National Company Law Tribunal & Appellate Tribunal (ch. 2
The President and members of the Council of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India express their utmost unhappiness on the passing of the ICWAI Amendment Bill in the Rajya Sabha on 12th Dec 2011, by which the name was proposed to be changed to the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. Our Institute strongly objects to the move by the sister professional body in interfering the activities of the another professional body to encourage foreign management accounting bodies to establish their presence in India to the detriment of Indian professionals.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has today introduced the much awaited Companies Bill 2011in the Lok Sabha. The new bill is all set to replace the 55 year old Act. The promulgation of the new Act is a step towards globalization and is a successful attempt to meet the changing environment and is progressive and futuristic duly envisaging the technological and legal developments.
Here are some of the things to do for while handling the entire income tax refund process so that you can receive the same quickly:- File the income tax return in time – The entire tax refund process starts with them taking some specific action. For any tax payer, doing nothing will not yield any result in any benefit on the tax front. Thus if there is some outcome desired, then there will have to be efforts to get that particular outcome. When it comes to the question of getting an income tax refund, the first thing that has to be done is to file an income tax return which mentions all the correct figures about the income, deductions and tax paid. This will result in a demand for the refund based on documentary evidence.
Cost and Works Accountants will now only be known as Cost Accountants, with Parliament approving amendments to the existing legislation earlier today. Also, there will be some brand confusion as the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India will now be called the Institute of Cost Accounts of India. As a consequence, the Chartered Accounts Institute and the Cost Accounts Institute will share the same acronym – ICAI.
Various statutes prevailing in India like DVAT,2004 requires the assessee to furnish an audit report in a form duly signed and verified by such particulars as may be prescribed under section 44AB of the Income-tax Act, 1961 i.e. Form 3CB/3CD. This had lead to the doubts as to whether such audits would be included in the ceiling of ‘specified number of tax audit assignments’.
We recently come through a company which providing free software for creation XBRL file. While in Market all companies are charging from Six thousand to thirty Thousand for one year for the software. Software Name is ‘Apex Xbrl Maker Free Edition’ and it is developed by a Kolkata based Software and Web Development Company namely Saltlake Infosolutions Private Limited. The Key Features of Apex Xbrl Maker 2011 Free Edition (Applicable only for MCA Taxonomy 2011) are as follows:
As all of us are aware about the MCA has made it compulsory vide General Circular No.11/2011, New Delhi Dated 07.04.2011 to inform PAN of every Director/Person holding Director Identification Number (DIN) up to 31st May, 2011 if not informed/furnished earlier at the time of applying DIN by such Director . The circular also made it mandatory for all new DIN Applicants to mention their PAN No. in DIN-1 eform
