Accounting regulator ICAI said on Wednesday it would give auditors of Price Waterhouse in the Satyam scam a chance to present their side before passing any order against them. “I told my office to take permission of the court because I want Director, Discipline, to begin proceedings against them (S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri). Unless I listen to them, I cannot pass the order against them… either send them to us or a llow us to hear them while in custody,” ICAI President Mr Uttam Prakash Agarwal said.
1. Verlekar Gautam Eliminated.2. Paliwal Dayaram eliminated 3. Agarwal Subhash Hariprasad Eliminated 4. Kailash Mantry Eliminated. THE CANDIDATE WISE POSITION AT ELIMINATION NO: 6, WAS AS FOLLOWS:
Kind attention of the members pursuing Post Qualification Course on Diploma in Insurance and Risk Management (DIRM) who have yet to pass Eligibility Test (ET) Papers is invited towards the last date for submission of ET Papers in order to become eligible to appear in the DIRM Technical Examination to be held in May 2010 (subject to fulfillment of other conditions in this regard) is 31st December, 2009. The soft copy of the ET Question Papers are hosted at our website at the hyperlink http://www.icai.org/post.html?post_id=3650 The ET papers should be posted in a manner so as to reach the following address on or before 31st December, 2009.
These recommendations differ considerably from the model and structure of the GST envisaged by the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers (EC) as described in the First Discussion Paper released by the EC on 10 November, 2009. The differences relate to several critical areas such as the tax base, tax rates, threshold limits, taxation of inter-State supplies of goods and services, exemptions/ compounding schemes and taxation of alcohol, tobacco and petroleum products in the GST regime, amongst others. It must be clearly understood that these are only recommendations and it is for the EC to accept or reject these recommendations.
Cash seizures by tax authorities during searches on evaders nearly doubled to Rs 400 crore in 2008-09 fiscal, while the size of total assets impounded grew by half to Rs 625 crore, says an official report. The department conducted searches on 429 groups, mostly real estate companies, across the country during 2008-09.
Highlights of counting for WIRC election on 23.12.2009:- Counting Closed for the day without completing. CA. Mishra Narottam Lal & Kailash Mantry been eliminated. Counting will start again Tomorrow at 11 am.
In A major relief to corporates who regularly make cross-border payments, the Supreme Court has stayed the order by the Karnataka High Court, issued a couple of months ago, that these companies have to deduct tax from all cross-border payments. The apex court gave the ad-interim order on December 18, 2009, on a special leave petition filed against the Karnataka High Court order in the CIT v/s Samsung Electronics case.
Finance Secretary, Shri Ashok Chawla today launched an e-platform ‘NTREES’, an acronym for Trade Receivables Engine for E-discounting. Promoted by SIDBI & NSE, NTREES will facilitate discounting of MSME bills on their supplies to large purchaser companies.
Allahabad Bank, Kolkata, 1. M/s Venkat & Rangaa, Chennai, 2. M/s Sudit K. Parekh & Co., Mumbai, 3. M/s P.A. & Associates, Bhubaneswar, 4. M/s M. R. Narain & Co., Chennai
Government of India vide their letter F.No.1/14/2004-BOA dated November 21, 2008 had advised all the public sector banks (PSBs) to follow the Road Map for implementation of autonomy in the matter of appointment of statutory auditors. As per the Road Map, RBI will forward to the PSBs a list of eligible audit firms containing the names of firms equal to twice the number of vacancies identified for the year 2009-10.
