In a move to plug loopholes that led to the alleged tax evasion by telecom giant Vodafone, the Income-Tax Department will make it mandatory for firms to submit information to it online before remitting payments to foreign companies, from July this year. “The information … shall be furnished electronically to the website designated by the […]
Capital account convertibility means that an investor is allowed to move freely from the local currency to a foreign currency. India has limited capital account convertibility to prevent shocks to the capital account and maintain a stable exchange rate, by stipulating sectoral norms that ensure a lock-in period for investments.
The Council of the ICWAI at its 251st Meeting held on 12-13 February 2009 decided as below: Mandatory application of Cost Accounting Standards
Leading accountants will meet the Government this week to plead for protection as they prepare for a surge in litigation from investors trying to recover their losses from big company failures. The Big Four — Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) — are braced for an increase in legal action from investors and […]
CAPITAL adequacy ratio—the minimum amount of capital banks have to set aside while lending—of Indian banks would continue to remain higher than the minimum regulatory requirement of 9% even if sticky loans, or NPAs, were to more than double. Addressing a seminar at the the London Business School on Thursday, RBI deputy governor Rakesh Mohan […]
Listed companies have to disclose to stock exchanges the voting rights break up of shareholders for each class of security issued, a SEBI amendment to the Equity Listing Agreement has specified. “It has been decided to amend clause 35 of the Equity Listing Agreement to provide additional format for disclosure of voting rights pattern in […]
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Income-Tax department to explain why actor Amitabh Bachchan was allowed to withdraw his security expense claim amounting to 30% of around Rs 6.90 crore, the actor’s income from popular TV game show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ in 2001-02. The department said while Bachchan had in his original income tax […]
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is mulling over bringing about some changes in the chartered accountancy course syllabus, ICAI President Uttamprakash Agrawal said on Wednesday. “Indian chartered accountants are capable enough not just to fight the economic downturn, but also guide the world on how to come out of it,” he said.
The Income-Tax department routinely imposes cost on assesses for late filing of returns or delayed tax payment. For a change, it was at the receiving end when the high court imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 for retaining books of accounts impounded from a city builder for almost five years. Justice D V Shylendra Kumar, […]
Despite the auditors of the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services pleading ignorance, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has accused them of colluding with the company’s erstwhile management. “It is revealed that as per the records maintained by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas are partners in the firm Price […]
