This is the time of the year when tax payers look forward to getting refunds from the IT Department if eligible. But for roughly seven out of 10 cases, income tax refunds have remained elusive for no fault of the tax payers. The income tax department maintains that it is also not at fault. According to senior taxmen, they reject an overwhelmingly large number of eligible cases every year for what they call the incidence of missing entries.
The Reserve Bank of India released today its Annual Report for 2009-10. This statutory Report of the Board of the Reserve Bank focusses on: (a) an analytical assessment of the key policy issues and macroeconomic challenges faced during the year, (b) the range of policy actions taken to address the challenges, besides initiatives launched during the year in relation to the broad macro-financial objectives of the Reserve Bank,
In order to give immediate relief,a bonus incentive (over and above the present benefits) of two per cent has been announced by Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma to sectors like handicrafts, handloom, silk carpets, leather and leather manufacturers, sports goods, toys and select bicycle parts. The extra sops are two per cent of the export value.
As per information available with the Ministry of Textiles, a total of 334 textile mills were enlisted with the Textile Commissioner’s Office, Mumbai, during the Eleventh Plan. These included 177 non-SSI spinning units, 11 non-SSI composite mills, 138 SSI spinning units and 8 Exclusive Weaving Mills. Information relating to the units that came up in the decentralized segments such as knitting, processing, garmenting and made-ups is not available.
Paragraph 32 of the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 provides for annual valuation of the Pension Fund by valuer appointed by the Central Government.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is likely to ask for powers to penalise errant audit firms, but only with prior approval from the government. The ICAI Council, the apex decision-making body that met last week, was divided on the issue of the regulatory agency for auditors getting powers to penalise firms as well.Instead, it agreed that the powers be used only in special circumstances, said members present in the meeting.
To facilitate the candidates of November-2010 C.A. Examinations for submitting the filled in CA Examiantion forms , four special counters will be operational in the adjoining premises of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India viz, Institute of Engineers,Indraprastha Marg on 25th & 26th August,2010. The candidates are requested to avail this facility on 25th & 26th August,2010.
Do you remember those “Oops” moments when you send email to someone and soon it occurs that you have missed something? This is where the “Undo Send” feature of Gmail comes in. It has saved me several times by undoing the sent emails.
Mr B. Ramalinga Raju finally made a brief appearance on Tuesday before the special trial court going into the Satyam scam, managing to avoid media glare. It is nearly a year since the former founder and ex-chairman of Satyam Computer Services has been under treatment for Hepatitis C at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences and consistently citing medical grounds for not appearing for trial.
Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Corporate Affairs, will launch here tomorrow evening an e-learning module on Corporate Governance: Voluntary Guidelines 2009. It will be a joint effort of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Dun & Bradstreet India.
