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In pursuance of Rule 7 of Schedule ‘F’ to Regulation 204 of the Chartered Accountants Regulations, 1988 (as amended vide Notification No. 1-CA(7)/59/2001 dated 28th September 2001), the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is pleased to notify that the Information Systems Audit (ISA) Course Assessment Test will be held on 23rd June 2012 (Saturday) from 10.30 AM to 2.30 PM at the following cities provided that sufficient number of candidates offer themselves to appear from each city as detailed below.
Government Denies Allegations Allegations have been made that the proposal of M/s Global Communication Services Holdings Ltd, Mauritius (a wholly owned subsidiary of M/s Maxis Communications Berhad) to acquire 73.99 per cent equity in M/s Aircel Ltd was delayed by the then Finance Minister in order to benefit certain persons.
The payment of commission to agents of Public Provident Fund (PPF) Scheme and Senior Citizens Savings Scheme has been discontinued, with effect from 1st December, 2011. Commission under all other schemes (except MPKBY Agents) has been reduced from 1% to 0.5%. However, commission to Mahila Pradhan Kshetriya Bachat Yojana (MPKBY) agents will continue at the existing rate of 4%.
Recently there have been large number of news in daily newspapers on the above subject. Brief facts are that a gang of 6 persons led by so called Sh. V.D.Goyal, Investigation Officer of Income Tax Department raided the house of Dr. Mohan Pandey, Saharanpur(U.P.) on 18/04/2012. They claimed that they belong to the Office of the CIT, Lucknow and produced a fake letter issued by the Commissioner of Income Tax, Zone-2, Lucknow before the S.S.P., Saharanpur and got police force on the basis of fake letter as well as fake Identity Card.
The Council has decided that the General Management and Communication Skills (GMCS) Programme, presently being organized for 15 days for the CA students should be organized twice during the period of articled training as under: (i) GMCS-I (15 days) – during 1st year of articled training (ii) GMCS-II (15 days) – after completion of 18 months of training but before completion of articled training
The Institute has developed an online Feedback form on the Question Papers of Chartered Accountants Examinations to be held from 2nd May 2012 to 17th May 2012 at the link http://www.icai.org/app_forms/student_feedback.html.
The Results Framework Document (RFD) for the Income Tax Department for the financial year 2012-13 under the objectives “Communication with Taxpayers” includes one of the action point “Display of Citizen’s Charter in all the buildings of the Department”.
As a welcome gesture to the ever increasing number of members availing the online services at www.icsi.in , it has been decided to waive the transaction charges of 2% presently being charged from the stakeholders while remitting the payments online henceforth. Members will now have to remit the actual amount of fee only whereas transaction charges will be met by the Institute. The waiver of transaction charges will be applicable for all types of payments to be made by the members like Annual fee, Certificate of Practice fee, CSBF and other fee or charges.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, Raipur for demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs.15 Lakh and three others for offering the said bribe.
