The Parliament passed the Amendment to The Cost and Works Accountants Act changing the name of the Institute to The Institute of Cost Accountants of India at the same time allowing the use of the designation ACMA and FCMA to denote the membership. Council passed resolution to rename all buildings of the Institute as “CMA Bhawan” Council passed resolution to allow use of CMA prefix by members Constituting Task Force for Election Reforms Commencement of Foundation Day celebrations on 19th May from this year onwards. Action taken for revamping the Institute infrastructure at Kolkata and Delhi
No. 13-CA (EXAM)/N/2012: In pursuance of Regulation 22 of the Chartered Accountants Regulations, 1988, the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is pleased to notify that the Professional Competence Examination (PCE), Integrated Professional Competence Examination (IPCE) and Final examinations will be held on the dates given below at the following centres provided that sufficient number of candidates offer themselves to appear from each centre.
We are pleased to inform you that the Government of Delhi has notified Delhi Value Added Tax (Second Amendment) Act, 2012 vide Notification No. F.14 (6)/LA-2012/cons2law/61 dated 15th June 2012 amending Section 82(1)(b)to include the Practising Company Secretaries to appear before the Delhi VAT authorities. By this amendment, Company Secretaries may directly attend before any authority in connection with any proceedings under Delhi Value Added Tax Act.
Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has come out with an Exposure Draft on XBRL taxonomy for Commercial and Industrial (C&I) entities for filing their Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account for the financial year 2011-12 based on Revised Schedule VI.
Kicking off the golden jubilee celebration of Institute of Chartered Accountant of India’s (ICAI) Ahmedabad branch today Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that chartered accountants are capable of putting a stop to corruption and black money. They should come out for fulfill their obligation towards the nation and bringing transparency in the economy.
The Union Cabinet today approved the proposal for extending the scheme of interest subvention of 1% on housing loans upto Rs.15 lakh where the cost of the house does not exceed Rs.25 lakh for the year 2012-13 and to amend the operational part of guidelines for release of funds.
In the present case, according to the Finance Minister presenting the Bill, a valid piece of legislation has been wrongly interpreted by the Tribunal. We have already pointed out that according to the existing law, if a valid piece of legislation is wrongly interpreted by the Tribunal, the aggrieved party should move higher judicial forum for correct interpretation. As pointed by the Apex Court in the case of Pritvi Cotton Mills Ltd (supra), the legislature does not possess or exercise power to reverse the decision in exercise of judicial power.
In addition, it has further been decided to change the time of booking of Tatkal tickets at the counters from existing 8.00 A.M. to 10.00 A.M. with effect from 10th July, 2012 to avoid congestion in the morning hours at counters for the normal advance booking passengers. The restriction on the agents for Tatkal tickets booking during the first two hours shall also continue. The Minister said that these steps have started yielding results.
Former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in the Budget for 2012-13, had announced introduction of the Rajiv Gandhi equity scheme under which 50% tax deduction would be provided to retail investors with annual income less than Rs 10 lakh. Under the proposed scheme, the investors would be allowed to invest up to Rs 50,000 in a year with a lock-in period of 3 years.
The Ministry of Finance has issued Notification No. 43/2012-St, dated 2-7-2012 which states that the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the two kinds of services provided by Indian Railways namely Service of transportation of passengers (with or without accompanied belongings) in 1st class or in Air Conditioned Coach and services by way of transportation of goods, from the whole of service tax leviable thereon under section 66-B of the Finance Act 1994. The exemption would be effective upto 30th September 2012.
