India Post has announced that it will start collecting government stamp duty through 21 post offices in the Mumbai circle. The technology for evidencing stamp duty payment is provided by Pitney Bowes, a mail stream and document management company. The tamper-proof Pitney Bowes solution will help in secured evidencing of payments. Retrieval of information regarding […]
Standard-11 relating to The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates earlier prescribed under the Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules 2006 has been now amended by the Central Government, in terms of the powers conferred on them under the Companies Act, 1956, vide Notification dated 31st March, 2009. The said Notification contains an amendment i.e. a new Paragraph-46 to be inserted in the AS-11 earlier prescribed as aforementioned.
Accounting major KPMG is being sued for $1 billion (690 million pounds) in damages from a trustee of collapsed American lender New Century Financial Corporation and has been accused of conducting “reckless and grossly negligent audits”, a media report says. Law firm Thomas, Alexander & Forrester LLP has filed two suits on behalf of the […]
The government is likely to exempt the services provided inside the Special Economic Zones from service tax, a move for which it is expected to seek approval from the Election Commission. Hitherto, service providers were paying taxes first and than claiming refunds, an issue on which the Commerce Ministry has written to the Ministry of Finance suggesting exemption from taxes.
Dear Sir(s)/Madam, The Council of the Institute appointed a Working Group to study various students related issues sometime back. The recommendations of the Group were then considered by the Council and certain decisions have been taken in this regard. Some such decisions, among others, relate to the minimum and maximum working hours for the articled […]
Buoyed by a favourable Supreme Court order in the Vodafone tax case, the income-tax department has asked E*Trade Mauritius to pay capital gains tax on the sale of its shares held in Indian company IL&FS Investsmart to HSBC in September 2008. E*Trade Mauritius is indirectly held by E*Trade Financial Corporation and is in the business […]
The Finance Minister, in paragraph 89 of his speech, while presenting the Union Budget, 2007-08, had announced that the National Housing Bank (NHB) will introduce a reverse mortgage scheme for senior citizens. In pursuance of this announcement, some of the banks have already formulated scheme for reverse mortgage.
45. Commodities Transaction Tax 45.1 Chapter VII of the Finance Act, 2008 has introduced a new tax called Commodities Transaction Tax (CTT) to be levied on taxable commodities transactions entered in a recognized association. 45.2 ‘Taxable commodities transaction’ has been defined to mean a transaction of purchase or sale in a recognized association of – (i) […]
Stockbrokers who have been taking advantage of the ambiguity in the Income Tax Act rules to reduce their tax payouts could be in for a rude shock. The Bombay high court has ruled that brokers cannot set off losses in the trading business against their other income and that these losses can only be neutralised […]
In the case of one third of every mid cap company in India, the roles of the chairman and managing director or CEO were played by the same person. A majority of such companies (66%) do not have a policy for rotation for the members of their audit committees.
