The following benches will not function during the period 27.07.09 to 31.07.09 and the cases are adjourned to respective dates. Please see separate Notice:- “A-1, B-1, E-1, SMC & WT:” “K” Bench cases will be heard by “L” Bench
Following the outcry over the role of auditors in the Satyam scam, auditing regulator ICAI has recommended major changes in processes, which include among other things, joint auditors for big companies and rotation of partners every five years.
The Powai police has arrested a chartered accountant (CA) for cheating the owner of a leading pharmaceuticals company, Genom Biotech Pvt Ltd, of Rs 40 lakh. After the fraud, the accused had resigned from his job to avoid getting caught, said the police. The 34-year-old chartered accountant, Rajesh Ranjan, and the owner of GBPL at […]
`Happy to help you’ may remind you of the famous ad of a private telecom services company, but the Income Tax (I-T) department is also eager to tell large corporate taxpayers roughly the same thing.So, client executives and relationship managers — so far confined to the private sector and especially service providers — have now made an entry into the tax department, too.
SEBI/CFD/DIL/LA/2/2009/21/7 July 21, 2009 The Managing Director/ Executive Director/ Administrator of all the Stock Exchanges Dear Sir/Madam, Sub.: Amendments to the Equity Listing Agreement 1. It has been decided to amend the Equity Listing Agreement to prohibit listed companies from issuing shares with superior rights as to voting or dividend vis-à-vis the rights on equity […]
The Securities and Exchange Board of India, the markets watchdog, has done away with a no-delivery period for all types of corporate actions for scrips that are traded in the compulsory dematerialised mode and accordingly, short deliveries, if any. During corporate announcements like bonus or dividend, shares of that company were under a no-delivery period. […]
The Supreme Court will decide whether mutual fund brokers can resort to a process (dividend stripping) of creating a short-term loss to avoid tax. A Bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia has issued notice broking firms on a batch of petitions filed by the income-tax department challenging the Bombay High Court judgment that a broker […]
Announcement for November 2009 examinations Professional Competence Examinations It is clarified that in Part –II : Service tax and VAT of Paper 5 : Taxation, students will not be tested on specific questions covering individual taxable services. Integrated Professional Competence Examinations It is clarified that in Part –II : Service tax and VAT of Paper […]
NSDL has put a notice on his website mentioning that they will verify Identity and address of a certain percentage of PAN applications although they haven’t mentioned much detail about the mode of visit, timing, within how much day of application, who will be authorized to visit etc. The notice on NSDL website is as […]
India’s second largest private sector lender by assets, HDFC Bank Ltd, has paid Rs131.40 crore, inclusive of interest, to the service tax department after the government agency detected violations of certain provisions of service tax rules, two officials familiar with the matter said.