The country’s exports went up by 37.55 per cent to USD 245.86 billion during FY2010-11, demonstrating robust demand for Indian merchandise not just in Western economies, but in new markets like Latin America and Africa as well.
PricewaterhouseCoopers affiliates agreed to pay $25.5 million to former Satyam Computer Services Ltd investors to settle US litigation over the audit of the Indian outsourcing company. The settlement came four weeks after PwC agreed to pay a record $7.5 million US penalty over its auditing work for Satyam.
The Income Tax chief recently made surprise visits to some offices in the department and found to his dismay their poor maintenance and the indifferent attitude of senior officers towards their juniors. During his visit to have a first hand feel of the condition in the I-T offices, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman Sudhir Chandra was shocked to see obsolete furniture, dilapidated coolers, broken tubelights — all covered under thick layers of dust.
The Annual Policy for 2011-12 is set in conditions significantly different than they were a year ago. Last year’s policy was made in an environment of incipient domestic recovery amidst uncertainty about the state of the global economy, a perception that was reinforced with the precipitation of the Greek sovereign debt crisis a few weeks later. While signs of inflation were visible, they were driven primarily by food. However, food price pressure spilling over into more generalised inflation was clearly a risk as the recovery consolidated and domestic resource utilisation rose to levels which stretched capacities. Throughout the year, the goal of monetary policy was to nurture the recovery in the face of persistent global uncertainty while trying to contain the spillover of supply-side inflation.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has clarified that only a duly approved agency approved by it will have to be appointed for providing and supervising electronic platform for electronic voting to have a secured electronic platform for capturing accurate voting processes. Accordingly, the National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) and the Central Depository Services (India) Limited are being approved by the MCA subject to the condition that they obtain a certificate from the Standardization Testing and Quality Certification Directorate (STQC), Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) 2010 has been notified and it has come into force with effect from 1/5/2011. FCR Rules 2011 have also come into force from 1/5/2011. Key features of FCRA 2010 include the following- Concept of ‘permanent’ registration done away with; A five-year registration is provided so that dorman organisations do not continue. All existing registered organisations are deemed to be on a five-year validity from now.
The Supreme Court today adjourned the hearing of the petition filed by the Sahara Group against the orders of the Allahabad High Court which necessitated the company to share full details of investors participating in its fund raising exercise with the market regulator Sebi. A three judges bench headed by the Chief Justice S H Kapadia adjourned the matter for a week after the group’s investment arm Sahara India Real Estate Corporation sought some time to file recent documents.
The Income Tax department will file its first status report on investigation into tax evasion in the 2G spectrum allocation scam on Tuesday in the Supreme Court. The department, according to sources, has reportedly traced instances of tax evasion in allocation of the new Unified Access Services (UAS) licenses and subsequent allocation of the 2G spectrum.
The Reserve Bank of India today released the Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments in 2010-11. The document serves as a background to the Monetary Policy Statement 2011-12 to be announced on May 3, 2011.
For persons including companies required to furnish return under section 139(4A) or section 139(4B) or section 139(4C) or section 139(4D) have to furnish Income Tax Return in ITR 7 and Format of the same for A.Y. 2011-12 is as give below:- ITR 7 in excel format for A.Y. 2011-12- Financial Year 2010-11
