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Khursheed: Cap on CEO’s Salaries removed in New Companies Bill

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 06:43 AM PST

The existing 11% cap on salaries of chief executives officers (CEOs) of companies has been removed in the new Companies Bill, 2009, corporate affairs minister Salman Khursheed said. He said that the government has made this modification on its own. Salaries of the CEOs should be decided by shareholders, he added. Khursheed, who inaugurated the 37th national convention of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, said the new Bill, which was tabled in the Lok Sabha in August, was being...

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Profession Tax Enrollment Incentive Scheme 2009

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 06:29 AM PST

TRADE CIRCULAR DATED: 03/11/2009 No.PFT/2009/ P.T./Adm- 29/…./B (Trade Cir.No.30T of 2009) Sub: Profession Tax Enrollment Incentive Scheme 2009 The Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975. Ref: 1. Budget Speech by Hon’ble Finance Minister. 2. Notification published in the Govt. Gazette Government Resolution No. P.T.-I 109/C.R. 35/Taxation- 3, Mantralaya, Mumbai-400 032 dated 29′” July, 2009. Gentlemen/Sir/ Madam, The Maharashlra...

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SEBI: Systemic Solution to address Recurring Complaints from Investors

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 06:21 AM PST

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) wants to find a systemic solution to address recurring complaints from investors, even as it is trying to bolster investor confidence through measures such as the ban on entry load of mutual funds and the ASBA facility in IPOs. “We need a systemic solution if complaints are coming to us repeatedly. For instance, we get complaints after a public issue that the investor has not received a refund. While pulling up the investment bankers or...

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Online Registration of TAN

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 06:13 AM PST

The Income Tax Department requires all deductors to register their TANs online. Authenticated access (through user ID and password) will be provided to registered deductors. Registration is free. An acknowledgment number will be displayed on successful registration. This acknowledgment number is to be kept securely. In future user id / password will be provided to the deductors who have successfully registered. On login, the following will be available to the deductors- i.    view of the status...

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Indexed Cost of Gifted Assets has to be Determined with Reference to Previous Owner

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 07:44 AM PST

DCIT vs. Manjula Shah (ITAT Mumbai Special Bench) The assessee transferred a capital asset which was received by her by way of gift on 1.2.2003. The previous owner had acquired the capital asset on 29.1.1993. In computing capital gains, the assessee claimed that the indexed cost of acquisition had to be worked out by taking the date of acquisition by the previous owner. The AO rejected the claim though the CIT (A) accepted it. On appeal by the Revenue, the issue was referred to the Special...

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ICSI would submit its recommendations for better Corporate Governance

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 05:00 AM PST

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), the regulator for company secretary profession, would submit its recommendations for better corporate governance to the government at the 37th National Convention of Company Secretaries that begins tomorrow. These relate to defining the role of independent directors in companies, the need to extend special incentives, like reduction in tax rates or in interest rates, to companies that have a consistent corporate governance record and...

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Easing of Listing Standards for SMEs to be Considered by SEBI

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 04:55 AM PST

The Securities and Exchange Board of India is convening a meeting on November 9 to consider relaxing listing standards for small and medium enterprises. “Based on feedback from market participants we are considering relaxation of certain standards,” Sebi wholetime member M S Sahoo said at an Assocham conference. Sahoo said the market regulator is considering relaxing the entry criteria of Rs 3.00 crore tangible assets (each of the preceding three years) for SME listing. A small firm with a...

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Proceedings against Price Waterhouse, Delhi by ICAI still Awaited

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 04:50 AM PST

The Delhi High Court had observed that since there was no inter-connection between PW Bangalore, which audited the accounts of fraud-hit IT firm Satyam, and PW Delhi, it was not fair to proceed with disciplinary action against the firm. “They are separate partnership firms with separate balance sheets. There is no inter-connection (between PW Delhi, PW Bangalore and PW Kolkata and profit and loss of one cannot be shared by others. You cannot say that the Banglore firm which was the statutory...

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BJP rejects Direct Tax Code Draft, calls it an ‘Optical Illusion’

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 04:45 AM PST

The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party  or BJP today flayed the UPA government on the proposed direct tax code (DTC), terming it as “deceptive and illusionary” and urged the government to not present the code in its present form. “The DTC should not be passed in the present form by the government. We will request the finance minister to rethink (on the provisions of the proposed tax code),” senior BJP leader Arun Jaitely told reporters at a seminar on the Direct Tax Code organised by the...

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Disallowance U/S. 14A can be made with regard to partner’s share of profits

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 09:00 AM PST

Dharmasingh Popat vs. ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) The assessee, a partner in a firm, received ‘share of profit’ and ‘salary’ from the firm. While the ‘share of profit’ was exempt u/s 10(2A), the ‘salary’ was taxable as business income u/s 28 (v). The assessee claimed deduction for business expenditure incurred by him. The AO held that as the assessee had exempt income, s. 14A applied and a part of the expenditure had to be disallowed. This was confirmed by the CIT (A). Before the Tribunal, the...

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MCA’s New Mantra – be a Facilitator in Corporate Growth Instead of Just another Regulator

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 08:34 AM PST

Ministry moves to cut subjectivity in decision making, delegates more powers to Registrar of Companies. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) wants to shed its stern regulatory image and acquire a gentler, corporate-friendly reputation. The new mantra is to be a facilitator in corporate growth instead of just another regulator. The mantra is now being translated into action. For example, to cut out subjectivity in decisions, MCA has decided that field officers will not conduct any scrutiny...

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Draft norms on Non-Convertible Debentures issued by RBI

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 08:24 AM PST

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today came out with draft guidelines to regulate the issuance of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) with a maturity of less than a year by companies. A debt instrument through which companies raise capital, non-convertible debentures with a maturity of less than a year till now are not regulated by either SEBI or the RBI. The draft says these NCDs can be issued only by those who have net worth of at least Rs 4 crore as per their latest audited balance...

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SEBI Proposed a New Set of Norms to Stop Misuse of Power of Attorney

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 07:58 AM PST

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) proposed a new set of norms to minimise misuse of powers of attorney (PoA) that clients execute. In a discussion paper released for public comments, the regulator said it wanted to put restrictions on a franchisee or a representative of the broker to use a client’s account. SEBI said the PoA would be executed only in the name of a brokerage and not in favour of a sub-broker or an employee. To ensure that the customer was aware of the terms of...

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ICAI, Audit Firms against Autonomy to Govt Banks in Choosing Auditors

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 07:39 AM PST

The extra freedom given to the 26 public sector banks from this year to choose their statutory auditors has auditing companies — both those chosen and those left out — restive. The have approached the Union finance ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office to say that the decision will affect the quality of audits. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), which has been representing against this shift in policy for quite a while, has done likewise. The banks, however, reject this...

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Government Plans System to Track Corporate Fraud

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 07:10 AM PST

Having failed to detect the Satyam scam, the government has embarked on a new vigilant system to track corporate frauds as part of which it has decided to look into companies whose financials are found to be suspicious. According to an official in the ministry of corporate affairs, the government’s new drive would be technology-driven and bank heavily on the MCA21 e-governance programme that is now the main gateway for corporates to file their statutory documents. “This is part of...

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Agreement on Major GST issues still Elusive: PwC

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 05:48 AM PST

Amid fears that Goods and Services Tax (GST) implementation will miss the deadline, a leading consultancy firm PiceWaterHouseCoopers (PwC) has said the Centre and states are yet to reach an agreement on major issues relating to the new tax regime. “Agreement is yet to be reached on major issues such as the treatment of inter-state supplies of goods and services, imposition of GST on imports,” said a PwC report. The GST is scheduled to be introduced from April 1, 2010. However,...

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No LTA for Employee Using Car or Taxi, Disabled Exempted: Govt

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 05:41 AM PST

The Government will not sanction any Leave Travel Allowance (LTA) for an employee who uses personal car or taxi as mode of transport. However, the rule shall not be applicable to employees with a handicap or disability of self or dependent family member. According to a government notification, the employees can avail the LTA only if they travel by Indian Railways or Air India and state transport corporation buses. The order issued by Department of Personnel said the LTA facility will be...

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IRDA asked to Relax Life Cover Norms for Senior Citizens

Posted: 01 Nov 2009 10:30 PM PST

The ministry of social justice and empowerment has asked the insurance regulator to direct non-life companies to relax entry barriers for senior citizens seeking to buy health insurance and overseas mediclaim policies. At a recent meeting of the National Council for Older Persons (NCOP), where an IRDA representative was present, IRDA was asked to facilitate health covers for older people. NCOP comes under the ministry of social justice and this meeting was attended by Mukul Wasnik, the Union...

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Allowability of Claim for Refund of TDS when Wrongly Remitted to Revenue by Employer

Posted: 01 Nov 2009 08:09 AM PST

In the light of section 240 of the IT Act, 1961, an obligation is cast on the revenue to affect the refund, without having to call upon the employees to apply for refund claim. RELEVANT EXTRACTS: 11. Before proceeding to examine the contentions of the parties it is useful to extracts section240 and section 244-A (1)(a) & (b) which reads thus:- “240. Refund on appeal, etc. – Where, as a result of any order passed in appeal or other proceeding under this Act, refund of any amount becomes...

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Applicability of Section 14A of IT Act vis-a-vis Assessment of a Firm and its Partners

Posted: 01 Nov 2009 07:58 AM PST

A partnership firm is a separate entity than that of its partners under the Income-tax Act and therefore, partners vis-à-vis partnership firm would stand on the same footing of shareholders vis-à-vis company; accordingly , income charged in the hands of partnership firm cannot be treated as being a non-exempt income in the hands of a partner of such firm and, therefore, provisions of section 14A would be applicable in computing the total income of such partner in respect of his share in the...

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Depreciation is Mandatory for Chapter VI-A Deduction

Posted: 01 Nov 2009 05:35 AM PST

Plastiblends vs. ACIT (Bombay High Court Full Bench) Depreciation is Mandatory for Chapter VI-A Deduction The Full Bench was constituted to consider whether for the purposes of allowing deduction under Ch. VI-A, depreciation could be thrust on the assessee even though it had disclaimed the same for purposes of regular assessment. The assessee argued that as in accordance with Mahendra Mills 243 ITR 56 (SC), depreciation was optional and as Expl. 5 to s. 32 came into force only from AY...

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