The Budget Session of Parliament will commence from 7th of next month. A press communiqué issued by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat states that subject to exigencies of business, the Session is scheduled to conclude on Thursday, the 14th of August, 2014. Source– Press Release dated 24.06.2014 by Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Dates of First Rail […]
Audit of TDS returns A major portion of the revenue by way of income-tax is recovered through deduction of tax at source. For furnishing the information required under revised clause 27 of Form No.3CD, an in-depth verification of the TDS returns is necessary.
Challan correction mechanism Considering the fact that several mistakes were being reported which occurred on account of wrong punching of data in the OLTAS by the banks, the CBDT introduced a new challan correction mechanism for paper based payments of income tax. The said system has been appreciated by the assessees. Since, inadvertent mistakes can […]
Acknowledging industry’s concerns in the implementation of the Companies Act, 2013, Shri Naved Masood, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs said, The law fortunately delegates considerable power to the Government to make rules, through which many of the issues highlighted by the industry can be addressed.
In case an applicant does not get a response within the indicated timeline, they can approach the head of the concerned department. The department head will respond with the status of the application, the reason for delay, request for additional information, if any, as well as the likely time for disposal of the application.
This Report for the year ended March 2013 has been prepared for submission to the President of India under Article 151 of the Constitution of India. The Report contains significant results of the compliance audit of the Central Excise receipts under Central Board of Excise and Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
In order to remove the ambiguity that prevails on what is Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and what is Foreign Institutional Investment (FII), I propose to follow the international practice and lay down a broad principle that, where an investor has a stake of 10 percent or less in a company, it will be treated as FII and, where an investor has a stake of more than 10 percent,
CBI ARRESTS A SUPERINTENDENT OF CUSTOMS FOR ACCEPTING A BRIBE OF RS.18000/- The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Superintendent of Customs, IGI Airports, New Delhi for demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs.18,000/- from the Complainant. A case was registered against a Superintendent, working as Jewellery Appraiser in the office of Additional Commissioner, […]
The Council was of the view that the provisions of sections 143(12) of the Companies Act 2013 applied to the auditors appointed under the Companies Act 2013 to audit the financial statements for the year beginning on or after 1st April 2014. As a corollary, the requirements of these sections and related Rules would not apply to audits of financial statements of the periods beginning on or before 31st March 2014,
The Council of the view that such quarterly/ half yearly audits are not carried out pursuant to the requirements of the Companies Act 2013 (rather to meet the specific requirements of the auditee company, for example, to comply with the listing agreement requirements) as the latter only envisages audit of the annual financial statements.
