In a major step to attract students from the SAARC countries, Indian universities will now slash their fee to level them with that of Indian students. The University Grants Commission(UGC) has taken a decision in this regard and asked the Central Universities, State Universities and Deemed Universities to implement it immediately.
We would like to inform that the last date for online submission of form with the O/o C&AG of India for getting empanelled for appointment as auditors of Government Companies/Corporati ons for the year 2010-2011 has been extended upto 18th February 2010 (05.30 PM).
It is well esteblished principle that the power to levy penality under taxation laws is incidental and ancillary to the power of collection of tax and is provided to make sure the compliance of tax deposits by the assessees. Taxation laws are welfare laws i.e they are for the welfare of the general public at large.
NEW YORK—A former Ernst & Young LLP partner was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Monday after he was convicted last year of fraud charges in an insider-trading scheme where he allegedly tipped a Pennsylvania broker about pending corporate takeovers.
Ahead of Budget, an industry body has suggested government a slew of measures to boost industrial growth, including simplification of tax procedures, rationalisation of direct taxes and reduction in Minimum Alternative Tax (MAT). ‘Rationalisation in direct taxes is among the critical policy instruments with which government can help manufacturing sector consolidate its positions not only to mitigate the effects of global slowdown, but also to facilitate its transition to next level of growth,’ the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) said in statement .
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the apex regulator of accountancy profession in the country, will propose a time line to dispose of the complaints that arise against its members. The institute had recently recommended disciplinary action against two of its member chartered accountants after they were charged with professional misconduct while conducting the audit of Global Trust Bank for the year 2000-01.
Give the known challenges, every central bank has to move in the direction of taking right steps that it may feel as appropriate despite lack of consensus on many critical issues, without waiting for the global system to move. It would be wrong, however, as noted by Mr. Stephen Roach, to presume that “best global policies are the sum of the best national policies”.
Auditors in public sector banks (PSBs) must be appointed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the current practice of allowing bank managements to decide on such appointments must be done away with, the new President of the CA Institute, Mr Amarjit Chopra, has said.
Despite being partly a civic body responsible for developing essential infrastructural amenities, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), because of its capital intensive deals for various projects, has come under the scanner of the Income Tax (I-T) department. Though the authority has sought exemption from income tax claiming it is a charitable body, it may have to pay the I-T department a whopping Rs 1,500 crore if the case does not go in its favour.
American president Barack Obama has once again targeted American companies having their operations in India to save taxes back home and called such businesses tax evaders. “If you are a business here, entirely located in the US, and investing in the US, and hiring workers in the US, you are paying a 35 per cent rate,” Obama said in an interview to the business magazine Bloomberg Business Week.
