The OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs has proposed important and far-reaching changes to the Commentary on Article 5 (Permanent Establishment) of the OECD Model Tax Convention. As these changes will have an impact on India, the CBDT has, vide letter dated 8.11.2011, invited comments on the proposals before finalizing its view and sending it as India’s official response to the OECD.
We were confronted with the question “which model of mobile banking should India go for – a bank led model or a non-bank led one?” Protagonists of the non-bank led model referred to the success of such models in a few countries like Kenya and Philippines. While acknowledging that the mobile banking models in these countries were perhaps the appropriate solution in the respective jurisdictions, we, in India, came to the conclusion that absence of a bank presence in large parts of the country cannot be solved by non-bank players alone.
The Minister of Railways Shri Dinesh Trivedi at a press conference here today announced the implementation of 26 new trains, extension of 8 trains and increase in frequency of 5 trains. The 26 new trains will be flagged off within a week or so by the local public representatives from different stations. The extension of trains and increase in frequency of trains will, however, is implemented with immediate effect.
There is no such proposal under consideration of the Planning Commission for relaxing ban on sex determination tests. Recently a news item appeared in media suggesting that there is a proposal under consideration in the Planning Commission to relax ban on sex determination tests. It may be mentioned that the ‘Child Sex Ratio’ is a […]
Differing with the downgrade accorded by Moody’s, leading ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has upgraded the Indian banking sector saying its domestic regulations are in line with international standards.
BERN, Switzerland Switzerland’s financial regulator FINMA has opened probes against four Swiss banks over their handling of hundreds of millions of dollars in assets linked to the deposed leaders of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority says it examined 20 banks and found that four institutions had made mistakes warranting “enforcement […]
The challenges that lie before indirect tax administration and the work that is required to be done in this department are so enormous that it requires the united efforts of all members of the department of all ranks and at all places. There is no magic wand to achieve this. Each one of us has something unique, distinct in our personality that would add grandeur to the functioning of the department. We need to struggle unitedly and in a harmonious manner each one doing our bit. Let each of us think what I can do for the department rather than always looking at what is there in it for me.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Provident Fund Inspector of Guntur for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.7000/- from the complainant. The complainant, a Manager in Guntur based private firm has alleged that the Provident Fund Inspector, Guntur visited their firm on 24.10.11 and found all the registers & records in order. However, she demanded an illegal gratification of Rs.10,000/- from the complainant for not creating any problem and initially accepted an illegal gratification of Rs.3000/- as part payment from him.
The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat) today stayed the 630 crore penalty imposed by fair trade watchdog Competition Commission of India (CCI) on realty major DLF over alleged abuse of dominant market position. However, the tribunal clarified in an interim order that if DLF loses its case, the company will have to deposit the entire amount […]
About 38 per cent or Rs 26.22 in petrol price of Rs 68.64 a litre in Delhi is because of central and state government taxes. State-owned oil firms had last week hiked petrol price by Rs 1.80 a litre, the fifth increase this year as oil imports became costlier due to fall in rupee value. The new rate is based on a basic price of petrol, without including any taxes, refining cost or margin, of Rs 41.38 per litre, oil company officials said.
