New Directorate of Income Tax (Criminal Investigation) Created; to be Headed by an Officer of the Rank of Chief Commissioner of Income Tax; to Look into Criminal Matters Having any Financial Impliaction Punishable as an Offence Under any Direct Tax Law. The DCI will perform functions in respect of criminal matters having any financial implication punishable as an offence under any direct tax law including, inter alia –(i) Chapter XXII of the Income Tax Act 1961 (Act 43 of 1961); and (ii) Chapter VIII of the Wealth Tax Act 1957 (Act 27 of 1957).
Tax defaulters beware! With tax recovery to the tune of more than Rs one lakh crore held up for lack of information about the whereabouts of defaulters, the Income Tax(I-T) department is working on plans to publish their names in newspapers. The problem has been further compounded with several of the tax defaulters having created ‘benami’ assets to escape the dragnet.
From the desk of Chairman,- CBDT S.N. 50 /May 31,2011 With profound humility, I bow in reverence & express my gratitude to each & every member of Ayakar Pariwar for their good wishes & support in my humble attempt to serve our great Nation. Even a small gesture of concern and care from me towards my Pariwar members has invariably elicited an overwhelmingly loving response, leaving me mesmerized, speechless & making me more & more humble.
Investments made in liquid funds, which invest in short-term debt instruments, offer better returns for retail investors than parking money in savings bank account, says a study. A study conducted by CRISIL Fund Services has found that liquid funds not only offer higher post-tax returns but also provide a reasonable degree of safety in terms of the principal invested.
In sync with several other major economies, India initiated less number of anti-dumping probes against imports between October, 2010 and April 2011, according to a joint report of the multilateral agencies. India launched 15 anti-dumping investigations during this period as against 20 in the same months (October 2009 to April 2010) of earlier period, the report of the World Trade Organisation, OECD and UNCTAD said.
In an effort to curb the use of black money in the electoral process, the Election Commission now plans to ask political parties to conduct their finances in a corporate fashion by getting their accounts audited and publishing their audited finance sheets annually. The EC has received a host of such recommendations from the country’s auditing regulator — the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) — and will notify the official guidelines to political parties and financial enforcement agencies like the Income Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) soon.
Accounting regulator ICAI today said it will soon conclude the disciplinary proceedings against S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri , the two auditors embroiled in the multi-crore Satyam fraud . The Disciplinary Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) would be holding the hearing(s) in the said matter(s) at regular intervals and would try to conclude these cases by adopting the fast track mode, ICAI President G Ramaswamy said in a statement.
A plantation company and its two directors have been slapped with a fine of Rs2.25 lakh by a Delhi court for collecting a huge sum of money from the public, promising them high returns, without prior Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) permission. Additional sessions judge Pawan Kumar Jain fined Yojna Agro Forestry Ltd, a firm among hundreds of collective investment companies (CIS) on a complaint by market watchdog SEBI to prosecute the plantation company for not getting prior certificate from it as prescribed by the SEBI Act.
Planning Commission’s Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said the issues like cash subsidy and PPP, especially raised by Bihar, would be addressed prominently in the approach paper to 12th five year plan. ‘We will give thrust on ensuring faster and inclusive growth and sustainability,’ Mr. Ahluwalia said.
THE INSTITUTE OF COST AND WORKS ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA 12 SUDDER STREET, KOLKATA – 700 016 -SUGGESTED MINIMUM PROFESSIONAL FEES AS APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL AT ITS -268TH MEETING HELD ON MAY 28, 2011 1. Fees for Cost Audit related assignments:
