The Department of Telecom will appoint special auditors this week to verify the revenue figures of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular and Tata’s telecom companies, which operate in different areas of communications. The special auditors will be from the CAG panel, a senior DoT official told PTI .
The government has made the first move to home in on individuals and entities who have stashed away black money in one of the offshore banks. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has sent notices to at least 50 individuals figuring among a list of Indians who hold accounts with the LGT Bank, Leichtenstein, a tax haven […]
The accounting regulator the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has constituted an expert group to suggest sector-specific accounting norms for insurance companies. The move aims at ensuring that financial statements of insurance firms reflect true natures of financial arrangements. ICAI president Uttam Prakash Agarwal confirmed the development. “ICAI is planning to come up […]
Direct tax rates may be tinkered by new government that may present its first budget later next month, according to a study. This may be in line with changed taxation policies followed by most governments worldwide to beat slowdown and recession that set in following global financial turmoil.
In a major embarrassment for the Indian government, the Swiss Justice Department on Monday said it had received forged documents from New Delhi two years ago in connection with an alleged Rs.40,000 crore ($8 billion) money laundering case involving racehorse breeder Hassan Ali. “The documents submitted are forged,” Folco Galli, a spokesperson for the Swiss government, told a private […]
The high-level committee set up to look at the multi-crore rupee fraud at Satyam Computer by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is close to coming out with its recommendatations by June. “The high-level committee set up to look into matters arising out of Satyam fraud is carrying out deliberations and is likely to […]
Individual and small corporate taxpayers will get income or corporate tax refunds in four months, with the refund banker scheme spreading across the country soon. The refunds, arising out of tax payments and TDS collections, usually take more than a year to reach the average taxpayer.
It’s a brand that has held its price line at Rs 4 for 25 years now — the price was last raised in 1994 by 25 paise. So, it’s not for nothing that Parle-G is the world’s largest-selling biscuit by volumes. Not that the company didn’t try to raise prices to offset the overall hike […]
The Central Board of Direct Taxes have decided to defer the implementation of Notification No.31/2009 dated 25.3.2009 amending or substituting Rules 30, 31, 31A and 31AA of the Income Tax Rules, 1962. The amended / substituted Rules will now come into effect on 1st July 2009 instead of 1st April 2009.
THE general perception about vigilance cases among Government officials is that the launching of a vigilance case takes no time but closure becomes indefinite. Dispelling such a myth the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in its report for the month of March, has revealed that as many as 488 officers were exonerated and closure of their […]
