Though happy with the fact that troubled IT major Satyam Computer Services had paid income tax on unreal profits — as claimed by its chairman B Ramalinga Raju — the income-tax department is planning to re-examine the exemptions the company had claimed under the income tax regulations.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which is facing a multiple-agency probe within the country for its “unreliable” audit of Satyam Computer Services leading to a Rs 7,000-crore accounting scandal, holds a further risk of being quizzed by US accounting regulator in India, said Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) president Ved Jain.
The Income Tax (I-T) department has recalled a 2002 investigation report against the promoters of Satyam that had details of a probe conducted by I-T sleuths on family members and associates of B Ramalinga Raju in Hyderabad.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India has sent a letter to the company secretary of Satyam Computer Services, seeking a report on corporate governance, sources said.
In a move that will significantly ease the tax burden on India’s biggest information technology companies, the government has decided to amend the law relating to tax exemption for units operating out of special economic zones (SEZs). SEZs set up by IT majors like Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) under the parent companies […]
The Bombay High Court on Thursday admitted an appeal filed by the Income Tax Department against Amitabh Bachchan in connection with the income of Rs 23 crore that he earned as host for the reality show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC). The I-T department argued that Mr Bachchan received Rs 23 crore from E Entertainment (EEL) […]
KPMG and Deloitte, the two firms entrusted by the new three-member board of Satyam Computer Services to audit the company’s accounts, are not allowed to do audit work in India —a point that has not escaped the attention of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the regulatory body for accountants in the country. […]
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The unanimous approval of Satyam’s erstwhile board to the Maytas deal was not unanimous in letter and spirit, the minutes of the infamous December 16 meeting revealed on Saturday.
The government banks have an exposure of Rs 3,300 crore in Maytas, the subsidiary of beleaguered information technology (IT) major Satyam. The state-owned banks, however, have made no investments in the scam-tainted parent company.
