The CBI today arrested two senior officers of the Ministry of Home Affairs in two separate cases — an alleged excise evasion racket in the Union Territory of Daman, and an alleged scam in the purchase of bulletproof jackets for use by central police forces.
The Government is likely to place in the public domain by next month a revised discussion paper on the proposed Direct Taxes Code (DTC). After a quick round of consultations with some of the major stakeholders, the draft legislation (Bill) on DTC will be introduced in Parliament in the Monsoon Session, the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, told the Lok Sabha here on Wednesday.
If everything goes well as planned, India will be ready to have internationalised domain names on the Internet in seven Indian languages — Hindi, Bangla, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati — by next year.
Against the backdrop of multi-crore Satyam fraud, the accounting regulator ICAI has sought information from 150 chartered accountant firms, including multi-national corporations, to see whether they circumvented laws while providing auditing services in the country.
Opposition on Thursday sought changes in the present income tax procedures to make it people-friendly and said it would help check tax evasion. Participating in the resumed debate on the Finance Bill in the Lok Sabha, Anant Geete (Shiv Sena) said people are more interested in evading tax than paying it for development.
The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (RBI Act) requires a Non-banking Financial Company (NBFC) undertaking inter-alia, the business of acquisition of shares, stock, bonds, debentures or other marketable securities to obtain a Certificate of Registration as a NBFC. Such entities are regarded as Investment Companies by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and regulated as such.
A section of the media has reported communication between the Income Tax department and the Central Bureau of Investigation regarding records of telephonic conversations between a person by the name of Nira Radia and others. It is also reported, citing sources in the CBI, that in addition to Radia, telephone lines of several other influential business-men, politicians and advertising professionals were tapped.
The Custom Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal said in a recent ruling that the wording of the Act is such that exporters of services such as software and business process outsourcing companies cannot claim credit for taxes paid on inputs used by them.
A review Committee on Police Reforms, constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs, made a recommendation for ‘Free Registration of Crime’. The Recommendation was sent to all States/UTs for implementation as ‘Police’ is a State subject. There is no proposal with Government of India for e-registration of FIRs through Public Kiosks.
Insurance regulator IRDA has asked life insurers to disclose the commission paid to agents for unit-linked products amid a debate over huge pay-outs given to them vis-a-vis mutual funds.
