The Government has roped in accounting and auditing rule-maker Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to help public sector companies improve their corporate governance track record. ICAI will now regularly conduct workshops for chartered accountants at senior positions in public sector units and will closely monitor the effectiveness of the training. The regulator will […]
India’s insurance regulator will seek the opinion of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) before changing the format of the valuation balance sheet, or Form I, as demanded by private insurers, a top official said. Earlier, the private insurers in the country, through their representative body Life Insurance Council, had approached the Insurance Regulatory […]
The Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India at its 286th meeting held on March 8, 2009 cleared two more Standards on Auditing (SAs), i.e., Revised SA 500, Audit Evidence and SA 720, The Auditor’s Responsibility in Relation to Other Information in Documents Containing Audited Financial Statements in the direction of enhancing the […]
Power transmission utilities, including PowerGrid Corporation, the country’s largest, have sought relaxation in tax deducted at source (TDS) on ‘wheeling’ charges, which they say are higher than their tax liability. Wheeling charges are levied by the transmission utilities for use of their network. Following strict enforcement of TDS rules and show-cause notices, state electricity boards […]
Hundreds of sub-brokers are in a quandary. Tax authorities have served notices on them asking for payment of service tax for the last four years. The arrears and penalty together run into crores of rupees and in the current market conditions, this could drive many of them out of business, said a stockbroker. The tax […]
A Mumbai Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has permitted Bank of America (BankAm) to set off losses related to securities transactions against profits gained in similar deals, despite the Income Tax department and the Commissioner (Appeals) disallowing such a set-off on grounds that such deals were in contravention of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act (SCR Act). […]
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is all set to begin the proposed peer audit review of the companies that form the Sensex and Nifty benchmark indices. The peer audit had been proposed by the market regulator’s advisory committee on disclosures and accounting in the wake of the Satyam Computers’ scam where the […]
Uppermost in the agenda of the new chief of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Mr Uttam Prakash Agarwal, is the Satyam problem. “Members should not lose heart but must act proactively to safeguard the interests of all stakeholders,” he calls out to CAs, from the pulpit of ‘The Chartered Accountant’ journal, March […]
If you are in the armed forces, pay your taxes on time or you may be asked to hang up your boots. The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to retire an officer for delayed payment of property tax. A bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat did not find […]
Some of country’s top telecom companies are being accused of deducting lower amounts of tax at source on payments made to each other for roaming and interconnection charges, but the companies deny any wrongdoing. Interconnect charges, which include call termination fees, port charges and carriage fees, account for about 30% of the tariff charged to […]
