Seeking relief for home buyers, accounting regulator ICAI has asked the Finance Ministry to double the tax exemption limit on loan repayment to Rs 3 lakh. “…it is suggested that the deduction in respect of interest on housing loan in case of self occupied property should be increased from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 3 lakh”, ICAI said in a pre-Budget memorandum to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has said a committee constituted to suggest ways to check and bring back black money stashed in banks abroad will submit its report to the Finance Ministry within a fortnight.
ICAI Council at its 312th meeting had noted that till date the Central Government had not notified the effective date of Section 441A of the Companies Act, 1956. Consequently, no Rules thereunder had been prescribed by the Central Government. The Council, therefore, has decided that in view of the aforementioned situation, the statuary auditor need not report in respect of cess payable under Section 441A of the Companies Act, 1956 as envisaged under paragraph 63(g) of the Statement on the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2003 issued by the Institute, relating to clause 4(ix)(a) of the Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2003.
A 40-year-old chartered accountant committed suicide at his house in Rohini in outer Delhi in the wee hours of Saturday, the police said. The deceased, identified as Bharat Bhushan Chawla, a resident of Rohini Sector 16, was apparently under stress over a family dispute.
Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion had issued a Consolidated FDI Policy Circular (Circular 1 of 2010) on 31.03.2010,making all information on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy available at one place and subsuming all earlier Press Notes/ /Press Releases/ Clarifications regarding Government policy on FDI, issued by the Department from time to time. Subsequently Circulars were issued on 30.09.2010, 31.03.2011and 30.09.2011.
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today agreed to work together to seek to reduce differences in their respective classification and measurement models for financial instruments. The discussions will form part of the FASB’s ongoing redeliberation of a proposed Accounting Standards Update on financial instruments, which was originally […]
Reservation to Holders of Convertible Debt Securities in Rights/Bonus Issues -On the issue of reservation to convertible debt holders in rights/bonus issues, it has been decided to clarify that reservation shall be available only to compulsorily convertible debt holders, since conversion in such cases is not at the option of the holders of these instruments.
The government is trying to take up the issue of Indonesia proposing a tax of exports of coal at bilateral level, Coal Secretary Alok Perti said on Saturday. We have taken up the issues of export tax and restrictions in certain quality of coal by the Indonesian government with the Ministry of External Affairs and Finance Ministry, Perti said on the sidelines of the Fourth Asian Mining Congress and International Exhibition in Kolkata on Saturday.
The fees payable by the members of the Institute have been revised by the Council with effect from 1st April, 2012 from the financial year 2012-2013 onwards as follows:
First meeting of SEBI’s International Advisory Board-Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)’s International Advisory Board (IAB) held its first meeting in New Delhi today. SEBI constituted the IAB in September, 2011. The role of the IAB will be to guide SEBI and, in doing so, bring in the global experiences and emerging developments and challenges. The IAB will meet twice in a year.
