On paper, this tech park had 37 units functioning on its premises — all entitled to income tax concessions. What they turned out to be were nothing less than maintenance rooms located in the car park! And the tech park owner stashed away Rs 75.8 crore that he had claimed as tax concessions for three […]
Serious Fraud Investigation Office has invited applications from Chartered Accountants empanelled with the office of C&AG and who may like to be associated with SFIO for carrying out forensic examination of records of companies ordered for investigation by the government.
Apex body of CAs, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India said severe punishment would be meted out to its member-accountants if they are found guilty in the Rs 7,800-crore accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services. “If any of the CAs, who are the members of the institute, are found guilty in the auditing, exemplary […]
B.V.V. Paper Industries Ltd. vs. Commercial Tax Officer [(2008) 145 Comp. Cas 815 (Mad]) The Petitioner Company became side and a reference was filed before the Board for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) u/s. 15(1) of Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (SICA) for declaring the company a sick company and also for effecting […]
The Income Tax Department has slapped a bill of Rs50 crore on leading private telecom company Bharti Airtel for “non-payment of taxes on interest paid on loans taken by it” and allegedly furnishing wrong information to the tax department. Bharti has contested the claim, but has also paid more than Rs40 crore to the department, […]
The Supreme Court last week ruled that the buyer of assets of a company in liquidation had no liability to clear the arrears of property tax, setting aside the judgment of the high court in the case, Champdany Industries Ltd vs The Official Liquidator. In this case, Wool-Combers of India Limited went in liquidation. The […]
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Tuesday approved 2-percent cuts in excise duty and service tax proposed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who said resilience of the India economy which grew by an average of 9 percent annually in the last three years will help it overcome the current crisis.
The government on Tuesday said that the 4 per cent excise duty cut across-the-board will continue beyond March 31, 2009. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee also said that the excise duty on cement will be reduced to 8 per cent from 10 per cent, while service tax will be cut from 12 per cent to 10 […]
Government orders inspections under Sec. 209A of the Companies Act, 1956 of the books of accounts of companies selected on account of complaints or other information relating to non-compliance with or violation of the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 or other irregularities. Suitable action under the law is taken in case any non-compliance/ violation […]
The Council at its Meeting held on 18-20 December, 2008 approved the thoroughly revised 11th Edition of Code of Ethics 2009. The new Code of Ethics has been released on 4th February, 2009 by the Hon’ble Minister of Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India on the occasion of 59th Annual Function of the Institute. The New […]
