The farm loan waiver scheme may not trigger a tendency among farmers to default intentionally, Amarendra Sahoo, chief general manager, rural planning and credit department, Reserve Bank of India , said on Thursday. “The farm loan waiver may not impact. Some farmers may wilfully default. But genuine people will repay loans,” Sahoo said. Many bankers have been expressing concern that the farm loan waiver scheme announced in Union Budget for 2008-09 would have an impact on farmers’ credit discipline.
The Revised Standard on Auditing (SA) 540, ‘Auditing Accounting Estimates, Including Fair Value Accounting Estimates, and Related Disclosures’ provides timely guidance on audit of fair value and accounting estimates in the current times of market uncertainty and liquidity crunch. Accounting estimate is an approximation of a monetary amount in the absence of precise means of measurement. Risk of material misstatement increases significantly since accounting estimate involves the use of judgment by the management. This Standard provides specific guidance to auditor while verifying the valuation of complex financial instruments which are not traded in active and open market and transactions involving the exchange parties without monetary consideration. This Standard is applicable for audits of financial statements for periods beginning on or after April 1, 2009.’
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has constituted a committee on Public Finance with the objective of extending a helping hand to the Centre, state and local administrative departments in nation building, an official of ICAI said on Monday. ICAI Programme Director V C James told reporters here, the committee’s key objective is to study, review, analyse and recommend measures to tackle the fiscal problems of the central or state governments, PSUs, Civic bodies, financial institutions and local administrative departments.
During a verification of electronic returns, the department found that as many as 1,714 taxpayers under the self-assessment scheme (where tax-payers determine their tax liability and pay accordingly) had not paid their tax dues. In a few cases, the amount due was around Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion).
A new procedure has been prescribed for the payment of taxes, fees and returns by the dealers or employers seeking registration or not registered or not required to registered under MVAT Act vide Trade Circular 42-T of 2008 dated 26th December 2008.
As your good self are aware that the Council at its 280th meeting held from 7th to 9th August 9, 2008, considered the cited matter. After detailed discussion, the Council authorised CA. Vinod Jain, Chairman, CLC to finalize the Schedule VI and Saral Schedule VI for small and medium companies while appreciating the views/suggestions emerged during the Council meeting and views to be received from the Council members.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes have ordered that any return of income for the assessment year 2008-09 filed electronically on 30 th September 2008, in respect of which the electronic acknowledgement bears the date stamp of 1 st October 2008, shall be treated as having been filed within the due date, i.e. 30 th September 2008.
ICAI is considering broadcasting 12 hour of programming a day for students and its members. It may be mentioned here that CA professionals have to take mandatory 20 hours of training every year. We feel that with increasing base of membership and students in India and overseas we need to have a mass medium. Our own channel will enable us to reach out to students and professionals more effectively. Also, students will get access to the best resource persons nationwide, Mr Jain said.
Do you wish to nominate any leader for the Corporate Awards? These awards are instituted to acknowledge Chartered Accountants in industry who have demonstrated excellence in the way in which they conduct their profession, are exemplary role models in the industry and have created value to their company’s stakeholders on a sustainable basis.
This is what DOT has told to the government that any phone which doesn’t have a valid IMEI Number will be banned starting next year think they started with a date of Jan 6th and may be they will move that or extend it to March 2009. This means 13 percent of the Chinese and Korean mobile phones which either doesn’t have a valid IMEI number or has all 0’s will get banned , This is to take care of security threat that those mobile phones are causing , this is a very good move .
