The Reserve Bank has imposed penalty of up to Rs 5 lakh on two Gujarat-based co-operative sector lenders — the Mehsana Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd and the Jamnagar Peoples Co-operative Bank Ltd — for violation of certain guidelines. The violations range from conduct of non-banking business to non-reporting of cash transactions, the RBI said.
Income Tax : SBI Lending Rates. We have attached herewith a file which have SBI lending rates for Assessment years 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12. It Contains the Interest Rate on following Kinds of Loan for different period:- Interest Rate on Housing Loan up to 5 Years, Above 5 years but up to 10 years, Above 10 years but up to 15 years and Above 15 years but up to 20 years.
The Finance Ministry expects to begin the compilation of the negative list for service tax soon. Negative list is a list of items on which tax will not be charged as compared to a positive list which the government already has. The government believes that service tax contribution to the overall tax kitty can be increased significantly if a negative list is prepared.
The Union government has slapped an excise duty of 10 per cent on jute products that constitute about 80 per cent of the Rs 6,000 crore industry and threatens to cripple the fate of 2.5 lakh workers. “This 10 per cent central excise duty on the jute sector will bring great trouble to the industry and increase the cost of jute packaging products,” industry veteran Sanjay Kajaria said.
Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has denied that that any calls were received by the Custom Officials at Mumbai Airport from the office of any Minister. The decision was taken entirely as per Customs Rules and Regulations. The investigations are still in progress and other investigative agencies have been addressed with details.
The Central Government has revised the National Floor Level Minimum Wage (NFLMW) from Rs. 100/- per day to Rs. 115/- per day effective from 01.04.2011, on the basis of the rise in the All – India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers during the period. The NFLMW is a non-statutory measure. Accordingly, all the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations have been requested to fix/revise minimum wages in such a way that in none of the scheduled employments, the minimum wage is less than National Floor Level Minimum Wage of Rs.115/- per day at present.
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre and RBI on a petition seeking probe into the alleged money laundering by the trustees of Mumbai’s Lilawati Hospital. A bench comprising Justices B Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar also sought response from the Minstry of Corporate Affairs, Enforcement Directorate, Central Board of Direct taxes and SEBI on a plea seeking investigation by appropriate agencies into the alleged tax evasion and money laundering by the trustees of the Lilawati Hospital.
In a major development in the Satyam fraud case, US regulators on Tuesday fined the software firm and its auditors PriceWaterhouse India up to $17.5 million for the accounts bungling that went undetected for several years. The US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) said that Satyam Computer Services have agreed to pay a fine of $10 million towards settlement of charges of fraudulently “overstating the company’s revenue, income and cash balances by more than $1 billion over five years”.
The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India at its 304th meeting held on 23rd March 2011 considered the prudential regulatory treatment prescribed by the Reserve Bank of India vide its above mentioned circular vis a vis the impact thereof on the auditor’s report since the said treatment is a departure from the requirements of the Accounting Standard (AS) 15, Employee Benefits. 3. On a consideration of the matter, the Council of the Institute decided that since the accounting treatment for such expenditure is prescribed under the prudential regulatory framework of the Regulator, the auditors need not qualify their audit report on account of this. The matter should, however, be brought out by the auditors in the audit report by way of an “Emphasis of Matter Paragraph” in accordance with the Standard on Audit (SA) 706, “Emphasis of Matter Paragraphs and Other Matter Paragraphs in the Independent Auditor’s Report, provided the matter of departure from the requirements of AS 15 pursuant to the aforesaid circular of RBI is appropriately disclosed, with quantification, by the bank by way of the notes to the accounts in the financial statements.2
CIT wise details of AY10-11 paper refund Returns entered into the system but not processed is given herein below. These lists, however, do not give the true and complete picture of pending refunds, as the Systems does not have any visibility of paper refund Returns not entered onto the system. On the basis of the statistics available for earlier years, CBDT estimates the said paper refund Returns not entered onto the system so far at around 8 lacs, a large number of which pertain to Mumbai & Delhi. Today April 03 morning, CCITs (CCA) of Mumbai & Delhi have been sensitized by the Chairman personally about the need to issue all refunds by April 10 2011. All officers, especially those posted at Delhi & Mumbai, are once again advised to rise to the occasion & issue all refunds by this date.
