Announcement for Empanelment as a Technical Reviewer with the Quality Review Board The Government of India has, in exercise of the powers conferred by Sec. 28A of the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, constituted a Quality Review Board to perform the following functions:- (a) to make recommendations to the Council with regard to the quality of […]
The Service Tax department proposes to order for conduct of special audit of Service Tax Assessees by the Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountants under Section 14AA of the Central Excise Act, 1944, as made applicable to Service Tax under Section 83 of the Finance Act, 1944. For this purpose, it is proposed to make a panel of CA/ICWAI who may be assigned the task of audit.
Stepping up measures to recover over Rs 1,00,000 crore of unpaid taxes, the Income Tax (I-T) Department has set up a special cell to track taxpayers who are “untraceable” or have reported inadequate assets to pay back tax demands. The department has also decided to search and approach every possible database or agency, ranging from […]
New Delhi, Oct 24 : Special CBI Judge O P Saini today expressed his displeasure against the high-profile accused in 2G spectrum scam case for making a hue and cry over his decision to record in advance that they were not pleading guilty and face the trial. “What was wrong if I recorded your guilt […]
All LLPs registered upto 30-September-2010 have to mandatorily close the financial year as on 31-03-2011 and file Form-11 by 30-May-2011 and Form-8 by 30- October-2011. LLPs registered from 01-10-2010 to 31-03-2011 have option either to close financial year as on 31-03-2011 or 31-03-2012 and to file Form-8 & 11 accordingly.
The Finance Minister of Nepal Mr Pun assured Shri Mukherjee about the safety and security of Indian businessmen visiting Nepal. He sought support of the Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee in completing various projects in Nepal. He also assured that finalization of DTAA between two countries would also be got expedited. He thanked Shri Mukherjee for all his support to Nepal and invited him to visit Kathmandu at the earliest.
The other issues discussed at the meeting included, guidelines for Use conversion charges from residential to commercial on upper floor of markets, conversion to freehold without charging UEI (unearned Increase) in cases of transfer through will, gift deed, share of transfer etc., need for land monetization and better use of scarce land resources through higher FAR for public utilities such as hospitals etc.
We have initiated two major steps in the area of tax reforms. The first pertains to the DTC and the second to the Goods and Services Tax (GST). The DTC Bill was introduced in August, 2011 and has been referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee. I am hopeful that the Committee will submit its report by the Winter Session of the Parliament, and thereafter we would seek to get the legislation passed during the Budget session. By amalgamating several taxes levied by the Centre and the States at different stages of the value chain, the GST would mitigate cascading and make Indian industry competitive in domestic as well as international markets. It would also improve compliance and make the level of taxation transparent to the end consumers.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested income-tax officer Ranjan Prakash and chartered accountant Vimal Patangia on the allegation that Mr Prakash demanded Rs. 1.5 lacs from the complainant through the CA concerned for getting favourable order in A.Y. 2009-2010 pending with the ITO.
The Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that the present global economic developments and more particularly the sovereign debt crisis of Europe has once again brought into focus the need for better co-ordination between monetary and fiscal policies towards improving overall economic stability and growth. He was speaking on the occasion of the 81st […]
