In a bid to check the rise in court cases against corporate houses for company law violations, the government is set to give more powers to its officials to deal with such offenses out of court. The framework proposed in the new company law envisages that company disputes should not be dragged to the court.
The country’s most powerful regulators, SEBI and RBI, may soon be left with fewer responsibilities if the government has its way. The finance ministry is thinking of taking away the regulators’ mandate to develop markets so that their regulatory concerns and caution on new products and markets do not come in the way of developing new instruments and markets.
It has been decided that in all the Corporate cases selected for scrutiny as per the guidelines contained in the Action Plan document 2008-09 which have returned income of Rs.5 crore or more and where provisions of FBT apply, assessment order shall also be passed under section 115WE after scrutiny of all such cases.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) expanded the scope of professional services to cover sportspersons, umpires and referees, making them liable for a higher tax deduction at source (TDS) at the rate of 10% against 1-2%.
Who will be covered by the Pension Scheme? Every member of the ceased Family Pension Scheme 1971 and anyone who joins any covered establishment on or after 16-11-95 is compulsorily to join this scheme, provided his/her salary/wage is less than Rs. 6500/- per month at the date of appointment.
State Bank of India, having its Corporate Centre at Mumbai is India’s leading Public Sector Bank having all India presence, branch network of over 10800 branches and a staff strength of around 1,80,000 employees, is interested in engaging an Auditing firm of repute and proven track record to carry out the concurrent audit of its Derivative portfolio on an on going basis. Initially for a period of 6 months, subject to extension.
THE Supreme Court on Monday stayed the proceedings challenging the legality of imposition of 12.36% service tax on renting out premises. Various multiplexes, members of the Retailers Association of India, Confederation of Real Estates Developers Association of India and others had moved various high courts against levy of such tax.
With economic offences seeing an increase, the CBI has written to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to probe the growing number of white collar crimes. “The CBI has already written to ICAI to provide expertise as and when required,” says the new CBI Director Ashwani Kumar.
India’s apex accounting standards body is convinced that 80 hours is all it will take for the country’s accountants to learn the nuances of an international standard that could soon become the way the world writes its books.
Refund Banker is a scheme wherein a scheduled bank is authorised to issuerefund instruments, either in paper form or electronically, on behalf of theIncome-Tax department. Under this scheme, assessees benefit from faster tax refunds and direct credit into their bank accounts on the lines of dividend payments made bycorporates to shareholders. State Bank of India (SBI) is already operating as the ‘Refund Bank’ for the Income-Tax department in Delhi, Patna, Chennai,
