Corporate espionage: CBI names consultancy firm PwC as a suspect
Posted Date : 15-Mar-2015 , 01:28:51 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
An official of a high profile consultancy group has come under CBI scanner in connection with its probe into the alleged sale of confidential government records on foreign investment policies to corporate groups by officials.
CBI sources said that during the questioning of five arrested persons i...
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ICAI Constitutes Expert Panel for Addressing Bank Branch Audit Queries for FY 2014-15
Posted Date : 14-Mar-2015 , 10:16:21 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Dear Members,
The bank branch audit season is around the corner. Given the fact that the banking industry is typical in terms of its geographical and customer spread, the volume and varied nature of products and services offered, coupled with the strict constraints for completing the audits,...
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Updates on allotment of Statutory Bank Branch Audits
Posted Date : 14-Mar-2015 , 04:03:01 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Banks has start sending emails for Bank Branch Statutory Audits.
Mails received from following Banks as per our confirmation.
Syndicate Bank
Canara Bank
Bank of Baroda
Bank of India
Union Bank of India
Punjab National Bank
UCO Bank
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Corporate Espionage: CBI conducts more raids Law Firm, CA Firms
Posted Date : 14-Mar-2015 , 11:10:10 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Widening its probe in the corporate espionage scandal, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday searched the premises of another CA firms and a law firm in Mumbai for allegedly acting as intermediaries to pass on sensitive information from government officials to corporate ...
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Total NPAs of banks increase to Rs 3,00,611 crore
Posted Date : 14-Mar-2015 , 08:44:39 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Non Performing Assets (NPAs) of the banks in the country stood at Rs 3,00,611 crore as on December 2014, government told Lok Sabha Friday, attributing the increase of NPAs to sluggishness in growth.
Of the total NPAs, Rs 2,62,402 crore belonged to nationalised banks, Rs 38,209 belonged to pri...
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High court picks holes in hospital
Posted Date : 14-Mar-2015 , 08:41:21 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Bombay high court refused any relief to a hospital run by Yash Society, a charitable trust of the Birla group, that was seeking income tax exemption on the grounds that it was running a philanthropic institution.
A division bench of Justice M S Sanklecha and Justice G S Kulkarni questioned th...
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Service of MCA Portal will not be available on 14-03-2015
Posted Date : 13-Mar-2015 , 08:41:58 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Services on MCA (www.mca.gov.in) portal will not be available from 08:00 AM to 06:00 PM on Saturday, 14th March 2015. We regret the inconvenience caused and request the stakeholders to plan accordingly.- MCA
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MNCs face retro tax notice after tax notice to Cairn India
Posted Date : 13-Mar-2015 , 08:31:40 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Even after the government clarified that multinational companies in India do not have to pay retrospective tax, sword is still hanging on more than 500 MNCs whose underlying assets are in India.
The income tax department is doing reassessment of all retrospective tax cases that a...
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Corporate Espionage : CBI nabs govt officials, CA for selling confidential paper to corporates
Posted Date : 13-Mar-2015 , 08:16:55 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Busting a major ring of a well known CA and government servants, CBI has registered a case of alleged sale of confidential documents related to foreign investment policies which were passed on to major corporate groups of the country.
CBI sources said a major coordinated search operation ...
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Jet Airways faces IT dept scrutiny over TDS defaults
Posted Date : 13-Mar-2015 , 07:42:56 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Income Tax authorities have slapped a prosecution notice on the Naresh Goyal-promoted Jet Airways for alleged default in payments of tax deduction at source (TDS), official sources said on Thursday.
The notice was served to the Mumbai-headquartered airline after tax personnel said ...
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Parliament clears long-pending Insurance Bill
Posted Date : 12-Mar-2015 , 10:40:53 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Parliament on Thursday approved the NDA government's first major economic reform measure as the long-pending bill providing for raising foreign investment cap to 49 per cent in insurance was passed by Rajya Sabha after main opposition Congress and some other parties came on board.
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Draft Guidelines for Issuing Secretarial Audit Report, Signing and Certification of Annual Return - ICSI
Posted Date : 12-Mar-2015 , 12:05:49 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Draft Guidelines for Issuing Secretarial Audit Report, Signing and Certification of Annual Return - ICSI.
In exercise of the powers conferred by Clause (1) of Part II of the Second Schedule to the Company Secretaries Act, 1980 (56 of 1980), as amended by the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 2...
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ICAI to host two-day Asian Summit on healthcare cost management
Posted Date : 12-Mar-2015 , 08:53:07 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) will be organizing an Asian Summit on Health Care Cost Management on the theme "Touching Lives through Cost Management in Health Care" on March 12 and 13 in New Delhi.
One of the important objectives of Govern...
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RBI issues new norms for sale of bad loans (NPA)
Posted Date : 12-Mar-2015 , 08:48:30 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
In a boost to banks, which are facing rising asset quality issues, the Reserve Bank of India, on Wednesday, allowed such lenders to reverse the excess provision on sale of bad loans to their profit and loss account, provided the transaction took place before February 26, 2014.
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TDS by co-operative banks will HASSLE small depositors
Posted Date : 12-Mar-2015 , 08:39:34 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Co-operative banks will be required to deduct TDS if the interest they pay to a depositor, who is also a member (shareholder) of these banks, exceeds ₹10,000 in a financial year.
In this regard, the Finance Bill 2015-16 has proposed an amendment to Section 194A of the Income Tax Act (rela...
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Stop collecting service tax from pilgrims in Bodh Gaya: HC
Posted Date : 12-Mar-2015 , 08:28:42 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Patna high court on Wednesday directed the government to stop collecting service tax from pilgrims at Bodh Gaya.
A division bench of Chief Justice L Narasimha Reddy and Justice Vikas Jain, while hearing a PIL, also ordered constitution of a committee under the supervision of Bihar State...
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Banks Can Raise Funds From Market to Meet Capital Needs - FinMin
Posted Date : 11-Mar-2015 , 06:51:19 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government today said it has limited fiscal space to recapitalise PSU banks and they can raise funds from the market to meet their capital needs.
"The government doesn't have space to give Rs. 20,000 crore or 25,000 crore (for capital infusion) ... If banks require fu...
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Pay TDS by March 31, Income Tax department requests companies
Posted Date : 11-Mar-2015 , 08:26:56 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The tax office is exploring all avenues to mop up revenue collection before March 31. In an unusual development, hundreds of companies have received letters from the income-tax department, "requesting" them to deposit the amount from tax deductions before the financial year closes — ...
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Top 10 borrowers account for Rs 28K cr of PSU banks' NPA
Posted Date : 11-Mar-2015 , 08:20:35 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The top 10 borrowers account for Rs 28,152 crore of non performing assets (NPAs) of the state-owned banks,Parliament was informed today.
As many as 433 borrowers have taken loans of over Rs 1,000 crore and above amounting to Rs 16.31 lakh crore, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sin...
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Audit of social sector schemes a must: CAG
Posted Date : 11-Mar-2015 , 08:07:35 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Comptroller and Auditor General Shashi Kant Sharma on Tuesday emphasized on the need for mandatory social audit of social sector schemes as they lacked transparency and accountability.
Speaking at a conference on social audit here,the CAG said expenditure of central and state governments th...
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Income Tax Dept slaps $1.6 bn tax demand on Cairn Energy
Posted Date : 11-Mar-2015 , 08:03:08 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Income Tax Department has slapped a Rs 10,247 crore (USD 1.6 billion) tax demand on Cairn Energy Plc, which termed the action as “very disappointing” and said it would contest the order.
The tax demand relates to an alleged Rs 24,500 crore worth capital gains it made in 2006 while t...
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Income tax refunds of Rs 1.19 lakh crore pending in last 3 years
Posted Date : 10-Mar-2015 , 09:16:36 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Income tax refunds to the tune of over Rs 1.19 lakh crore is pending for the last three fiscals, starting 2012-13, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.
"Income-tax refunds amounting to Rs 1,19,964.13 crore relating to last three assessment years are pending as on March 5, 2015,&quo...
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Name of top ten companies in india by value of assets
Posted Date : 10-Mar-2015 , 08:42:09 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The names of top ten companies in descending order, in terms of their assets as on 31.03.2014, from among the 4,15,886 companies that filed their Balance Sheets for the year 2013-14 till 30.11.2014 is given in the Table. The total reported value of the assets of all the 4,15,886 companies was R...
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Over 480 banks under RBI lens in Money laundering
Posted Date : 10-Mar-2015 , 08:16:41 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Over 480 urban cooperative banks across the country have come under the scanner of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for alleged violation of anti-money laundering laws.The central bank has been taking strict action like imposition of penalty and denial of branch expansion against the erring...
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ITR - File by March end to avoid penalty
Posted Date : 10-Mar-2015 , 08:11:34 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Did busy office hours leave you with no time to file your tax returns(ITR) by the July 2014 deadline? Did the heavy July rains stopped you from meeting your chartered accountant? Festivals and weekends travels disrupted your plans to file it on the last weekend too? You still have a breath...
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Rs 2 lakh crore so far from coal auction, Rs 1 lakh crore from spectrum
Posted Date : 10-Mar-2015 , 08:00:54 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government on Monday said it has raised Rs 2 lakh crore through auction of mining rights and royalty from 30 blocks that have been bid out so far, breaching the Comptroller & Auditor General's estimated "notional loss" of Rs 1.86 lakh crore.
Excluding the royalty, the government...
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WhatsApp: The calling feature invite is a scam
Posted Date : 09-Mar-2015 , 02:54:21 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
WhatsApp users across the world are being targeted by cyberscammers who are circulating fake messages inviting users to test the new calling feature that fills the phone with dangerous malware.
According to the Daily Star, if users click on the link, they are taken to another website where they are...
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Tax Audits - Centre raises the bar on CAs
Posted Date : 09-Mar-2015 , 07:58:39 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Centre has once again put chartered accountants’ (CAs) fraternity on notice - this time on their attest functions on the income tax front.
Several changes are now being proposed – to be effective from June 1 -- on the eligibility criteria for CAs to undertake attestation (au...
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DVAT - Traders can carry forward input tax credit to next fiscal
Posted Date : 09-Mar-2015 , 07:50:21 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Delhi government provided a big relief to the city traders by allowing them to carry forward input tax credit to next financial year and extending the last date of submission of R-9 forms for last three years, up to June 30. The government's move comes with an aim to simplify business for t...
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All services will not attract Swachh Bharat cess
Posted Date : 08-Mar-2015 , 08:54:57 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Swachh Bharat cess will be levied on select services at the rate of up to 2 per cent, depending upon the need for funds to take forward the Prime Minister's national cleanliness drive. This was explained to a group of tax experts by Finance Ministry officials during a post-budget meeting.&n...
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