The Council of The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India has approved the release of Exposure Draft Cost Accounting Standards on Cost of Service Cost Centres as recommended by the Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB), the standard-setting body of the Institute on March 27, 2010.
ASK is a one stop computerized center for the taxpayers to obtain services promised by the Department in its Citizens’ Charter in a time bound manner. ASK provides a front office backed by re-engineered processes and a new outlook of the officials to quickly redress grievances of taxpayers and also to prevent grievances. The first ASK was inaugurated in Pune on 18th May 2009, followed by two more ASKs at Kochi and Chandigarh.
1. The office desires to engage CAs as consultants for a period of 11 months. 2. The Consultant will be required to assist this office in gathering and evaluating audit evidence within the framework of methods and techniques followed by this office which may be also at client’s sites/offices.
The income tax department will recommend de-freezing of about 100 demat accounts after it found the claims of a few individuals in the frozen accounts to be genuine. The department has been probing more than 6,300 frozen demat accounts, which had Rs 6,700 crore of unclaimed stocks.
Tax evasion could land you behind bars if the country’s direct taxes authority has its way. The central board of direct taxes wants to prosecute tax evaders under the tough anti-terror financing law, even as it looks to adopt a more friendly approach towards honest tax payers.
The government has taken the first concrete step towards the introduction of the goods and services tax. Since the introduction of the tax would require amendment to the Constitution, the government has sought the Supreme Court’s opinion on the amendments proposed. This will ensure these amendments are not challenged in the court later.
The big four global accountancy firms — PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Ernst & Young and Deloitte — are circumventing laws to provide auditing services in the country, says a report of an ICAI’s committee.”It has been noticed that MAFs (multinational accounting firms), entered through automatic/FIPB route for rendering consultancy services, are transgressing the permission so granted and are rendering taxation services, auditing, accounting and book keeping services and legal services,” the high-powered body probing the Satyam scam said.
Limited liability partnership (LLP), the new business vehicle that the government introduced a year ago, is moving from one hurdle to another. While Budget 2010-11 has cleared the way for small companies to convert into LLPs through capital gains tax waiver, the commerce and industry ministry is now having second thoughts on allowing FDI in LLPs.
Favours check on downstream investments by firms with minority foreign shareholding. The finance ministry has proposed to tighten the foreign direct investment (FDI) regime in the country. It has sought to route a larger number of investments by companies where the foreign stakeholding is less than 50 per cent through the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB).
The Institute of Chartered and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) southern region saw salary remaining at the same levels as last year, despite an economic recovery. Out of the 450 candidates who appeared for the campus placement, only 100 were selected.
