It is hereby notified for general information that in view of heavy rains and consequent disruption of normal life in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Andhra Pradesh, the CPT scheduled on 13th December 2015 (Sunday), in the said states stand rescheduled to 27th December 2015 ( Sunday).
Natural Calamity of severe magnitude has struck the states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The normal life is severely affected. The student community and people at large are in great distress. In view of the above disastrous situation, the Institute has decided to reschedule the following examinations of December 2015 term to be held at Centre nos. 202, 206, 207, 209, 212, 213, 214, 217, 225, 238 & 239 of Tamil Nadu state and Centre no. 210 of Puducherry.
Introduction of Secretarial Audit, Annual return certification etc. under the Companies Act, 2013 has given a big boost the practice of Company Secretaries. At present Practising Company Secretaries are doing practice in the form of sole proprietorship firm or in form of partnership firm and only a few firms have 10 or more partners.
SEBI notified the regulatory framework for issue and listing of corporate bonds through SEBI (Issue and Listing of Debt Securities) Regulations, 2008. This regulatory framework prescribed a disclosure based regime, whereas the earlier regime required mandatory investment grade rating for public issues. The total primary market issuance has increased from Rs.1,74,781 crore in 2008-09 to Rs. 4,13,558 crore in 2014-15.
Committee headed by the Chief Economic Adviser Dr. Arvind Subramanian on Possible Tax rates under GST submits its Report to the Finance Minister; On the Revenue Neutral Rate (RNR), the Committee recommends the same in the range between 15 percent and 15.5 percent (Centre and states combined) with a preference for the lower end of […]
Some sections of the media have reported that Government will directly intervene to monetize the gold held by charitable, religious and other institutions. It is clarified that this is complete misinformation. The Gold Monetization Scheme is entirely voluntary and it is for individuals, institutions and others to take their own decision to monetize the gold held by them under the Scheme.
The Government has launched ‘e-Sahyog’ project on a pilot basis. It is aimed at reducing compliance cost, especially for small taxpayers. The objective of ‘e-Sahyog’ is to provide an online mechanism to resolve any mismatch or discrepancy in information as per Income-tax return of the tax payer viz-a-vis information received through AIR, CIB, TDS Statements […]
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) through its Master Circular dated 1.12.2015 (available on its website www.rbi.org.in) has issued consolidated instructions/guidelines on credit card, debit cards/pre-paid card operations of banks. The said instructions contain detailed terms under which a debit card may be issued, inter-alia, advising banks as under:
The existing Accounting Standards which were notified under the Companies Act 1956 under the Companies (Accounting Standards Rules) 2006 have to be notified afresh under Section 133 of the Companies Act, 2013. Certain existing Accounting Standards which were notified in 2006 contain ‘Transitional Provisions’
FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE MEMBERS Auditing and Assurance Standards Board issues Exposure Drafts of New/Revised Standards on Auditing for Comments The Auditing and Assurance Standards Board of the ICAI is issuing the Exposure Drafts of following new/revised Standards on Auditing (SAs) for comments.
