Anna Hazare, Jan Lokpal Bill top FB status updates in 2011
Posted Date : 09-Dec-2011 , 08:07:34 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Social activist Anna Hazare created a movement not only in the country but on Facebook also, as people discussed and debated the Jan Lokpal bill, making him the most talked about topic in 2011 on the social networking site.The Facebook Memology 2011, which captured the top ten Facebook stat...
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CAG of India Takes Over as Chairman of UN Panel of External Auditors
Posted Date : 08-Dec-2011 , 08:48:09 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG), Shri Vinod Rai has been elected as the Chairman of the Panel of External Auditors of the United Nations, the Specialized Agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency. He succeeds Mr.Norbert Hauser, Vice-President, Federal Court of Auditors, Ge...
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e-Filing in F.Y 2011-12: Quick Statistics (as on 30th November 2011)
Posted Date : 08-Dec-2011 , 04:49:53 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
QUICK HIGHLIGHTS OF E-FILING IN F.Y. 2011-12 (UPTO 30/11/2011)
COMPARATIVE GROWTH OF E-FILING IN CURRENT YEAR
FORM WISE RECEIPT OF E-RETURNS UPTO 30th NOVEMBER
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Google India gets Income-Tax Dept notice for not revealing correct revenues
Posted Date : 08-Dec-2011 , 08:27:47 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Around the same time Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal was planning to pull up Google, the Income-Tax Department was giving the final touches to a tax demand on the Indian arm of the global search engine company. Google India Pvt Ltd, according to the tax office, has not offered its entire income for ...
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Sebi may relax norms for mutual funds advertisements
Posted Date : 08-Dec-2011 , 08:21:22 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is planning to relax advertisement norms for mutual funds. The securities market regulator may allow mutual funds to use more space in advertisements to promote their products by reducing the disclaimer size. The mutual fund industry has been...
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Tax and Inequality- A Central Concern for Effective Governance
Posted Date : 08-Dec-2011 , 08:09:38 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that it is desirable to have a periodic international dialogue on economic concerns that affects lives in all our countries. He was inaugurating the 4th International Tax Dialogue Global Conference on “Tax and Inequa...
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National Competition Policy
Posted Date : 08-Dec-2011 , 08:08:46 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Government has constituted a Committee for drafting the National Competition Policy with a view to achieve highest sustainable levels of economic growth, entrepreneurship, employment, higher standards of living for citizens, protect economic rights for just, equitable, inclusive and sustainable econ...
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Govt. suspends FDI in multi-brand retail till consensus; opposition welcomes
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 08:20:05 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government has decided to suspend its decision on allowing 51 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the multi-brand retail sector. Making an announcement in the Lok Sabha today, the Finance Minister, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee said the government will withhold the decision till a consensus is re...
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HC notice to centre 200 SMS per day per SIM cap
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 07:47:40 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The union government was asked today by the Delhi High Court to explain its stand on a plea challenging a statutory regulation limiting the number of short messages ( SMs) sent through a SIM a day to a maximum of 200. A bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issue...
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Direct tax code to come into force in April 2012: Pranab Mukherjee
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 01:24:45 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday expressed the hope that the Direct Taxes Code ( DTC), which seeks to modernise tax laws in the country, will come into force from April 1, 2012. "The proposed Direct Taxes Code brings together the policy initiatives on direct taxes. It is slated to c...
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Satyam scam: ICAI bars 2 CAs, slaps Rs 5 lakh penalty
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 08:40:06 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Accounting regulator ICAI has barred two Lovelock & Lewes auditors from practice for life and slapped a penalty of Rs 5 lakh each on them for their role in the Rs 14,000-crore Satyam accounting scam. A probe by an ICAI "disciplinary committee has found Chartered Accountants Pulavarthi Siva P...
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I-T dept has no record of tax collections for 2 months
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 08:36:28 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax (I-T) department has no record of its performance over the last two months. This is because of the ongoing nationwide agitation by I-T officials - from the level of income tax officer (ITO) to assistant commissioner of income tax (ACIT)/ deputy commissioner of income tax (DCIT).
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Black money: FinMin panel gets over 3,000 responses
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 08:32:35 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The high-level Finance Ministry committee on curbing the menace of blackmoney has received more than 3,000 comments from general public suggesting ways to curb the generation of illicit funds.
The committee, headed by Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has received close to 3,3...
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Govt hopes to achieve indirect tax collection target of over 4 lakh crore for 2011-12
Posted Date : 07-Dec-2011 , 08:30:42 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government on Monday said it is confident of achieving indirect tax collection target of over 4 lakh crore for the current fiscal despite the slowdown in industrial activities. Chairman Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) S K Goel told reporters on the sidelines of a meet in Ne...
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Kapil Sibal vows to stop offensive content on Facebook, Twitter & Google
Posted Date : 06-Dec-2011 , 09:10:32 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday vowed to stop offensive and defamatory content on internet sites as a controversy raged over government's move to monitor content in cyber space. Maintaining that the government does not want to interfere with the freedom of the press, he said if the socia...
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IRS officer, CA wife under scanner over Rs 57 lakh assets case
Posted Date : 06-Dec-2011 , 08:04:38 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The dangers of clubbing incomes of husband-wife came to the fore in the Damle's case, but aside from that it may have unveiled their method of laundering black money.
A Delhi court has decided to put an IRS officer on trial along with h...
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Sebi seeks regulator to monitor Auditors
Posted Date : 06-Dec-2011 , 08:01:01 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Market regulator Sebi has called for the creation of an independent regulator to oversee auditors, a move that is being opposed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the industry body that self-regulates the auditing profession at present. "We have taken up the issue with th...
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CBDT Clarification Regarding Information Received Under the DTAA With Germany
Posted Date : 05-Dec-2011 , 10:02:52 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
It has been reported in some sections of the press that the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has shared details of 18 individuals found to have stashed illegal funds abroad in LGT bank accounts. In this connection, it is clarified that the CBDT has not shared any information received under ...
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Banks, Hospitals can't run from residential plots in Noida: SC
Posted Date : 05-Dec-2011 , 10:02:18 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Supreme Court today ruled that banks, hospitals and other commercial activities cannot be carried out from plots in Noida developed for residential purpose and ordered 21 banks and nursing homes in Sector 19 to immediately close their operations.
"That banking or nursing homes or any o...
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India to Host Fourth International Tax Dialogue Conference
Posted Date : 05-Dec-2011 , 10:00:06 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
India is hosting the 4th International Tax Dialogue Conference (ITD) Global Conference on Tax and Inequality. More than 250 foreign delegates are expected to take part in this three day conference being held at Vigyan Bhawan from 7th to 9th December. The conference would be inaugurated by the Union ...
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Ministry steps in to reduce transfer pricing disputes
Posted Date : 05-Dec-2011 , 08:34:20 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
After the hue and cry by corporate India over huge transfer pricing orders slapped by the tax department running into thousands of crores, the government has stepped in with a key reform. The finance ministry has directed the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to put in place a framework for an ...
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SEBI notifies guidelines for KYC Registration Agencies
Posted Date : 04-Dec-2011 , 07:29:55 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
To prevent duplication in customer identification process, market regulator SEBI today issued guidelines for KYC Registration Agencies and said wholly-owned subsidiaries of stock exchanges and depositories would be eligible able to act in such a role.
The Securities and Exchange Board of Ind...
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IT officials to go on nationwide strike
Posted Date : 04-Dec-2011 , 09:11:12 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Over 8,000 income tax officials in the country including 1,000 from Mumbai will go on an indefinite strike from Monday against the pending promotions of officials from the rank of income tax officer (ITO) up to the rank of assistant commissioner of income tax (ACIT)/deputy commissioner of income&n...
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ICAI condemns threat to member
Posted Date : 04-Dec-2011 , 09:08:42 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
hairman of the Western India Regional Council (WIRC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Shriniwas Joshi, categorically denounced threats of physical violence made against one of the members of the chartered accountant community.
Joshi was speaking at the inaugural function...
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Veteran actor Dev Anand no more
Posted Date : 04-Dec-2011 , 08:50:49 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Hindi Cinema’s evergreen hero Dev Anand passed away early Sunday morning in London. The 88 year old legendary film personality suffered cardiac arrest.
In a career spanning over 65 years, Anand worked in films like `Kala Pani`, Guide`, `Hum Dono`, `Tere Ghar Ke Samne`, `Ga...
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Facebook to hire 'thousands' over next year
Posted Date : 03-Dec-2011 , 02:02:38 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Facebook has said it plans to hire thousands of employees over the next year and add an engineering team to its office in New York. "We will hire as many high quality engineers as we can here in New York," Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg told reporters at an event also attended ...
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ICWAI sign MOU with CISI, UK
Posted Date : 03-Dec-2011 , 08:45:25 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI), UK on awarding the membership of CISI to ICWAI members and concessional fee for ICWAI students. The MOU was signed by M. Gopalakris...
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ICAI committee to decide on Satyam fraud case soon
Posted Date : 03-Dec-2011 , 08:44:27 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India president G. Ramaswami said that the department enquiry was continuing against the auditors facing trial in the Satyam fraud case and the ICAI Disciplinary Committee would meet on December 18 to take the final decision.
Addressing a press conference her...
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Sebi clears system to facilitate single KYC for all trades
Posted Date : 03-Dec-2011 , 08:43:17 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Investors will no longer need to go through the know-your-customer (KYC) scrutiny process multiple times to invest in stock markets. This process will be done through a single knowyour-customer clearance window soon, Sebi said on Friday. At present, if an investor intends to open accounts with d...
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RBI starts a new lender clan — NBFC-MFIs
Posted Date : 03-Dec-2011 , 08:41:31 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has put out guidelines for a new category of non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), which would be involved only in micro lending.
NBFCs which have minimum net owned funds of up to `5 crore and over 85% of their net assets in the nature of ‘qualifying assets&...
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