Stock brokers will now have to pay more service tax. The Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) has clarified that turnover charges, exchange transaction charges, dematerialisation charges and regulator fees recovered by brokers from clients will b
Government auditor CAG has pulled up the telecom ministry for not recovering Rs 679 crore as penalty or liquidated damages from six new operators for missing the network roll-out schedule as per the licence. Out of 122 Unified Access Service (UAS) li
Forty one NGOs have been banned from receiving foreign contributions due to corruption or irregularities in utilisation of such funds received under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, government said on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Mullapp
Within days of India reporting a 16-month low industrial growth of 4.4 per cent for September, a top government economic advisor said on Tuesday industry is expected post a recovery in October, else the Reserve Bank of India will have to change its t
Close to five lakh demat accounts have been frozen by the Central Depository Services Ltd (CDSL) and the National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) for want of PAN details. This makes up for about three per cent of the total number of demat accounts i
The new feature of downloadable e-forms has been made available on the LLP Portal. Users may now download the e-forms required to be filed and upload the same once filled at their end.
If you fail to carry out any transaction for 24 months through your bank account, it can be frozen. This is in line with the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) mandate, that a bank account automatically gets classified as inoperative or dormant if there a
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has proposed to set up a Centre for Excellence in Bhubaneswar. “ICAI currently has around 600 members in Orissa and we intend to set up a Centre of Excellence in Bhubaneswar. We have sought the c
The Supreme Court on Monday directed Vodafone to deposit Rs 2500 crore ($550 million) within three weeks in relation to the $2.5 billion tax dispute, a Vodafone spokesman said. The Supreme Court has also fixed Feb 05 as final date of hearing. Vodafon
The Dutch government has approached India on behalf of Vodafone’s Netherlands unit to settle a three-year-old tax dispute involving a Rs 11,000 crore claim, an Indian newspaper reported on Monday. The Netherlands has asked India to consider an alternate dispute resolution that will run parallel to the ongoing court process, the paper said, quoting unnamed tax and government officials.
