The Comptroller of Auditor General (CAG) of India has rapped Maharashtra Government for giving “undue benefit of over Rs 20 crore” to controversial Satyam Computer Services Limited by selling land at lower rates in Multimodal International Hub Airport (MIHAN) project at Nagpur.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation is switching to an electronic payment system, which will allow it to credit the PF amount to the members’ bank accounts within two days of claim authorisation. EPFO is becoming more customer-friendly these days as it is trying to stave off competition from the new pension scheme, or NPS.
Multipurpose Empanelment Form for the year 2010-11 is an on line application instead of offline application Members can fill up the application form directly in the site it self and Upload it. Members can view the Application and can Edit the Application in different stages.
Days after the Income Tax raid, service tax department sleuths of the West Bengal government Friday swooped down on the Eden Gardens to check papers relating to the alleged financial wrongdoings related to the Indian Premier League.
‘Success is a journey, not a destination,’ so goes the saying which is true for our profession too. We should not rest with success but instead should sustain it as a continuous journey to ultimate excellence – season after season. April and May are the months of hectic and breathless activity in a chartered accountant’s office, with the March year end closing of the financial statements and the pressures from all the clients,
There are more than a lakh tax cases pending in courts and various tribunals, holding back Rs 64,244 crore in both direct and indirect taxes. “The major reasons for pendency of 1,31,780 tax cases are excessive burden on existing tribunals and courts, and shortage of human resources with tax departments, ” junior finance minister S S Palanimanickam told the Lok Sabha today.
The government proposes to set up a Directorate of Currency (DOC) in the Ministry of Finance. The Directorate of Currency (DOC) will have the mandate to : (i) Monitor & review best practices around the world;
If you have written ‘hundered’ instead of ‘hundred’ on a cheque, don’t just strike off the additional ‘e’ and issue the cheque. Use a fresh leaf instead, or it could cost you Rs100-550. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has notified banks in a recent circular to not accept cheques that have corrections or alterations in anything but the date. The measure has been taken to “help banks identify and control fraudulent alterations”. The banks have started informing customers about the policy change through mailers.
The airline industry can heave a sigh of relief with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday capping the incidence of service tax on air travel at Rs 100 for domestic travel and Rs 500 for international travel.
The country’s leading mobile operators, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, BSNL and Tatas, have questioned the government’s move to direct the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to audit their books. The CAG is a constitutional body that conducts independent audits of all government accounts.
