The government is likely to make it mandatory for the investment bankers to reveal name of their existing clients while bidding for managing share sale offer of a state-run firm.The Finance Ministry is expected to come out with a notification this week making the disclosure mandatory.
The Income Tax department is probing a ‘treacherous’ and secretive channel of money transfer through ATMs along the ‘open” Indo-Nepal border which is suspected to have ‘national security’ implications. The department, which stumbled across the stealth money transfers during the recently conducted Assembly polls in five states, has sent a classified report to central security agencies for a detailed probe.
With choppy conditions in the stock market, the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) is in disagreement with the Finance Ministry on pushing PSUs for listing and follow-on public offers through a “diktat”. The Department of Disinvestment, under the Finance Ministry, has identified PSU majors like Oil India Ltd, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd, MMTC Ltd and NBCC for a stake sale, as it would like to achieve the Rs 40,000 crore sell-off target for the current fiscal.
The Government today said that PPF accounts of Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs) which were closed down between May 2005 and December 7 last year would get 8 per cent interest on the deposits. The Finance Ministry has issued the clarification in view of the doubts raised with regard to payment of interest on Public Provident Fund (PPF) accounts held by the HUFs beyond the maturity period.
Market regulator Sebi today imposed a penalty of Rs 14 crore on Dushyant Natwarlal Dalal and Puloma Dushyant Dalal , the two financiers for unlawful gains made during the infamous IPO scam of 2003-05. The two had been accused of making unlawful gains of over 4.94 crore by cornering shares of various companies meant for retail individual investors and the penalty is three times of the amount.
There is a legal framework regulated by the Reserve Bank of India for the opening of bank accounts overseas by Indian residents and for outward or inward remission of funds through authorized channels. The existing legal framework for dealing with illicitly generated funds transferred overseas and measures for the attachment and repatriation of such illegal assets to India and provision for penalties for offenders are:
The Income Tax department today said there is no great ambiguity in international tax laws and the Government wants to have more transparency in deals. There are issues…debatable issues, but there is no great ambiguity in international tax laws, Director General of Income Tax, International Taxation, R N Dash, said on the sidelines of a CII event here.
The Department of Posts (DoP) has launched the mobile-based money transfer service by Post Offices for quicker transfer of money from one city to another. Launching the service, the Union Minister of State for Communications, Information Technology and Home, Mr Gurudas Kamat, said the aim of launching this service was to help those who were unable to avail banking services. The service will be operated by DoP with technological support from BSNL.
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The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution will soon convene a meeting to discuss the issue of misleading advertisements with various service sector ministries and related agencies. Expressing concern over such advertisements for various consumer products and services, the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Prof. K V Thomas has said that a committee of experts will be set to suggest measures to deal with misleading advertisement effectively.
