The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed global management and consultancy firm ERNST & YOUNG to review the performance of its 80 chief general managers. According to an RBI spokesperson, E&Y will design and facilitate a 360-degree evaluation of the senior functionaries and a give feedback to the central bank. * The 360-degree evaluation […]
Official sources said that a CBI team was in Mumbai to understand the share transactions of the Satyam group of companies on the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange. The CBI appears to have got hold of evidence to prove how Satyam Computer’s revenues were inflated and has sent its officials to Mumbai […]
The Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Committee on Disclosures and Accounting Standards (SCODA) has recommended that the listed entities in the country should be permitted to opt for a separate set of disclosures for the rights issues (RIs) provided the issuer entity has been filing periodical statements and information on compliance with the […]
The finance ministry has agreed on a one-year moratorium on repayment of term loans taken by textile units for technology upgrade. The move will benefit domestic textile manufacturers, which are facing falling profitability due to slowing demand for their products. “The department of financial services and finance secretary (Arun Ramanathan) have agreed to loosen the […]
In a bid to overcome the menace of home loan frauds, the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) proposes to set up a committee to work out the modalities for establishing a central electronic registry that will list all mortgages created by deposit of title/sale deeds with banks.
Filing of returns, seeking refund/rebate of taxes, obtaining various permissions and approvals from the Department of Central Excise and Service Tax can now be made online. This follows the introduction of ACES (Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax), a workflow based application software at the Commissionerate of Service Tax and at the Large Taxpayer […]
The excise department has registered a significant rise in number of defaulters in the last four months of the current financial year in the state. The rising default has added to the woes of excise department, which has already registered a fall in growth of excise income. As per data available with the central excise […]
The upcoming general elections could take its toll on the bottom lines of a host of Indian companies that have accessed overseas debt. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has deferred a decision on relaxing accounting standard 11 (AS 11), which mandates mark-to-market (MTM) provisioning in the profit and loss account for foreign […]
If you are sitting on unrealised losses on equity investments made less than a year ago, here is some consolation. Those unrealised losses can be used to lower tax liabilities for the current financial year. Tax experts are advising investors to book their losses on or before March 31 this year and buy back those […]
Even as the final advance tax numbers are awaited, it appears that direct tax collections this year may find it tough to meet the government’s target. Government officials said direct tax collections are seen at Rs 2.72 lakh crore till today. March collections were at Rs 10,000 crore so far and are running slower than […]
