A hawkish Reserve Bank of India (RBI), while staying away from hiking key rates like repo or reverse repo, hiked the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) to 25% from 24%. The cash reserve ratio (CRR), the minimum amount banks need to park with the RBI, was also left unchanged.
The Institute has received an Office Memorandum (OM) from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. As per the OM, the Registrar of Companies will prepare a panel of professionals for Technical Scrutiny of Balance Sheets filled by the Companies for the State concerned.
To enable you to ascertain the extent of matching of your TDS / TCS claims in the Income Tax Return filed by you with the TDS / TCS reported by the tax Deductors /Collectors. In case the matching is 100%, you may be assured of accurate credit and quicker processing of the I-T Return.
The government has sought clarity from auditing firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) about their operations and business plans in India. “Come back with a plan. What is that you are responsible for? What is that you should be responsible for?” Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told PTI while replying to questions about his meeting with senior representatives of PWC early this week. PWC has been in the news for the wrong reasons as its auditors were involved in auditing the books of accounts of fraud-stricken Satyam Computer Services.
Markets can now be open 9 to 5, says regulator. You could soon be able to trade for an additional two-and-a-half hours on stock exchanges with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday allowing trading between 9 a m and 5 p m to align timings to international standards.
CBI on Sunday arrested an Income Tax Commissioner from Nagpur and his wife for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to their known source of income to the tune of Rs 4 crore. While IT Commissioner Ajay Kumar Singh was arrested from Mumbai airport by CBI sleuths, his wife Mrunalika Singh was His wife Mrinalika was picked up by the agency from their residence at Seminary Hills for abetting corruption. CBI officials had been on the trail of his assets over the last few days, after a tip-off.
CBI raid DOT offices after CVC has charged the telecom ministry of irregularities in awarding the 2G spectrum licenses loss of revenue to the government. Sanchar Bhawan was under raid for the department allocation of 2G spectrum to some of the new players at throw away prices without any bid but adopted on first come- first serve basis.
As part of its quality service to the Chartered Accountants in Service / Industry, The Committee for Members in Industry of ICAI has started a single window help desk for the Chartered Accountants with respect to all services related to their membership in ICAI. These services would cover appropriate assistance on the following:
From now on, when you get a gift in kind, valued at more than Rs. 50,000, from your parents or other relatives, make sure you have a sworn affidavit declaring the donor your kin.The Central Board of Direct Taxes has ruled that any such gift will be taxable for the donee unless it is from relatives or given during occasions such as marriage or by way of inheritance.
Due to paucity of accommodation in some Zones opted by Candidates in the cities of Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi, Indore, Mumbai and Kolkata etc., some of the candidates have been allotted examination Centres in other Zones of the said cities where the accommodation is available.
