Soon 7/12 extract will include additional information on whether the plots are under litigation Property buyers dreading the antecedents of the land they are planning to buy have reason to rejoice. If the Bombay high court has its way, property recor
The country’s apex body on accounting standard has cleared way for a change in the way Indian companies account for their employee’s post-retirement benefits like gratuity. Instead of providing for these in profit and loss account, companies can crea
At a time when direct tax collections increased 19%, the tax department has failed to adhere to its own compliance when it comes to tax refunds of salaried employees, with the backlog of 2007-08 still not cleared. Mumbai, which contributes close to 4
A chartered accountant was arrested by the Bandra police for allegedly cheating a family of Rs 65 lakh. The accused, Gopal Naik (56), had taken the money from Bandra resident Jude Soares after promising to invest it well. However, he did not pay the
The new Companies Bill is likely to give more powers to the Registrar of Companies (RoC) to monitor the end use of initial public offer (IPO) funds, a move that would require a 10-fold increase in the strength of the RoC.
The super built-up area has now been given a new nomenclature: useable area. While earlier, a builder would present the entire area of a flat to a consumer, now he sells an apartment by dividing its space into a carpet area and a super built-up area,
THE government is on track to implement International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) from April 1 next year, corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid said. “The committee of secretaries (CoS) have met and all issues have been addressed,” Mr
The Income Tax department is probing the source of investments in the real estate firm Ireo for alleged violations of FDI norms and evasion of taxes in bringing a whopping Rs8,000 cr through tax havens.The Income Tax department is probing the country
In a move aimed at giving more teeth to the probe, the Centre has conferred the status of a Supreme Court judge on V.K. Shunglu, head of the high-level committee to go into the alleged financial irregularities in the run up to the Commonwealth Games.
The Reserve Bank’s decision to tighten the monetary policy will have a negative impact on the growth rate, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said after the central bank raised the repo and reverse repo rates by 25 basis points (100 bps = 1%) each in
