The Bombay High Court today adjourned to July 8, the hearing on an appeal filed by Vodafone International in a dispute over tax liability. The court also stayed the ruling passed by the I-T department on May 31. The dispute is over the tax liability of Vodafone after it acquired Hutchison International’s stake in Hutchison- Essar in a USD 11.1-billion deal in 2007.
The corporate affairs ministry will initiate talks with the commerce ministry and RBI to allow global audit firms like KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PriceWaterhouseCoopers to open shops in the country. “This matter is not for us alone (to decide), it is a matter which involves the RBI as also the commerce ministry
In the spirit of truce arrived at with his elder brother, Anil Ambani on Tuesday dropped a Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100-billion) defamation suit against Mukesh Ambani in the Bombay high court. “Yes, we have withdrawn the suit claiming Rs 10,000 crore as damages”, a Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group spokesman told PTI.
The changes in the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules will not only create a huge supply of fresh papers in the current fiscal but will also impact the pricing of the large public issues such as Coal India and BSNL. The amendments will also bring the Indian promoters of insurance joint ventures legally at par with their foreign counterpart,
The Institute’s attention was drawn to certain news reports giving the impression that the Institute has mooted a proposal to open doors for MNC audit firms to operate in India.Consequent upon the Satyam scandal coming to light, the Council of ICAI had constituted a High Powered Committee to look into the matter.
THE FM is going to inaugurate the 26th Annual Conference of Chief Commissioners and Directors General of Income Tax, here tomorrow i.e, 9th June, 2010. The Minister of State for Finance (Revenue), Shri S. S. Palanimanickam, will deliver the valedictory address on 10th June in the two-day conference.
Vodafone moved Bombay High Court on 07th June 2010, challenging the income tax (I-T) department’s right to levy a tax on its $11.1-billion deal in 2007 to acquire Cayman Island-based Hutchison International’s stake in Hutchison Essar.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is facing an inquiry by accounting regulators into its failure to notice that JP Morgan was paying up to £16 billion of clients’ money into the wrong bank accounts. Last week the Financial Services Authority fined the investment bank £33.3 million
Ministry of Finance has constituted the Technical Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP). This Committee has been constituted in pursuance of the Finance Minister’s Budget Speech 2010-11 wherein he proposed to set up a Technology Advisory Group for Unique Projects under the Chairmanship of Shri Nandan Nilekani for an effective tax administration and financial governance system through creation of IT projects which are reliable, secure and efficient.
“We are delighted with the special auditors’ validation that all payments and dues, including license fees and spectrum charges have been paid by TTSL, as per the license conditions and the applicable ruling of the telecom tribunal TDSAT,” the company’s Legal and Regulatory Affairs Head Madhav Joshi said.
