Draft norms on new bank licences soon
Posted Date : 02-Jun-2011 , 09:00:07 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Finance Ministry on Thursday said the Reserve Bank will come out with the draft guidelines on new bank licences soon.
“The RBI has given it (recommendations) to the Finance Ministry and is also consulting other stakeholders. Based on this, they will come out with draft guidelines ...
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Income-tax department to seek details of Hasan Ali Khan's Swiss Bank accounts
Posted Date : 02-Jun-2011 , 08:51:56 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The income-tax department is preparing to send another Letter Rogatory to Swiss authorities, seeking details of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan's Swiss Bank accounts . As part of this exercise, it has asked the Enforcement Directorate to provide a copy of the statements given to it by Khan...
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Posted Date : 02-Jun-2011 , 12:12:47 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
As part of the 150 years’ celebrations of the Institution of the CA&G of India, a national level on-line essay competition for the graduate and post graduate students in all the disciplines has been organized from today. The subject is “Role of CAG in Meeting Challenges of Good Gover...
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Allotment Of Director Identification Number (Din) Under Companies Act, 1956
Posted Date : 02-Jun-2011 , 12:08:35 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has decided that with effect from 12th June, 2011, all DIN-1 & DIN-4 applications has to be digitally signed by the practicing Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries or Cost Accountants who shall also verify the particulars of the applicant given in the appl...
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RBI panel calls for secure systems to check credit card frauds
Posted Date : 02-Jun-2011 , 12:03:11 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Amid rising instances of debit and credit card frauds, a RBI panel has recommended that banks should put in place secure systems to check such cases within a year's time."All acquirers and issuers may put in place adequate fraud risk management systems and processes (within) 12 months," said the pan...
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Govt committed to achieve 2011-12 fiscal targets:Pranab
Posted Date : 02-Jun-2011 , 11:59:40 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Buoyed by better-than-expected performance on government finances' front in 2010-11, the Centre today said it will keep a tab on public expenditure to ensure that Budget targets for this fiscal too are achieved."Efforts to get the economy on the path of fiscal prudence are on track... The government...
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Now UK council offshores jobs to India
Posted Date : 02-Jun-2011 , 04:44:47 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Birmingham City Council led by the Conservative party has become the first council or local authority in Britain to cut jobs and outsource them to India, sparking protests from employee unions.Reacting to the council's move, Unite union national officer Peter Allenson said: "This is an outrag...
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Compliance of Provision of the Companies Act,1956 and Rules made there under.
Posted Date : 02-Jun-2011 , 04:41:57 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
In order to ensure corporate governance and proper compliances of provisions of Companies Act, 1956, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has decided that from 3rd July, 2011 all the Companies will have to file their updated Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Accounts and Annual Return with the Regi...
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HC rejects Shanti Bhushan''s plea seeking IT waiver for surgery
Posted Date : 01-Jun-2011 , 09:08:08 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Shanti Bhushan, former Union Minister and member of Lokpal Bill drafting committee, the Delhi High Court today dismissed his plea seeking waiver in the levy of income tax on expenses incurred for his heart surgery at Houston in the USA.
"We are of the opinion that concerning judgements and ...
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Satyam auditor wins rights
Posted Date : 01-Jun-2011 , 09:05:33 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) today directed the capital market watchdog to allow audit firm Price Waterhouse to cross-examine certain individuals, including Satyam Computer Services founder B. Ramalinga Raju, who had given statements to Sebi during its inquiry into the country’s big...
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Govt overdrive to check black money yielding results
Posted Date : 01-Jun-2011 , 08:20:15 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Amid the threat of Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev to go on hunger strike on the issue of black money from June 4, the government today said the series of steps taken by it to unearth unaccounted wealth have started yielding results.The income tax department, sources said, has detected unaccounted income o...
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Sunil Mitra takes charge as Finance Secy; replaces Nath
Posted Date : 01-Jun-2011 , 08:19:09 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Sunil Mitra has been appointed as the Finanace Secretary with effect from today, replacing Sushama Nath, who superannuated yesterday.Mitra, a 1975-batch IAS officer from the West Bengal cadre, retains the charge of Revenue Secretary as well, according to an official statement.Sumit Bose is the ne...
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Revised Schedule VI not to apply for Nov.11 CA Exams
Posted Date : 01-Jun-2011 , 07:12:30 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
ICAI has announced that a decision has been taken to defer the applicability of the Revised Schedule VI for CA examination, consequent to which the same will Not be Applicable for the PCC, IPCC and Final examinations to be held in November, 2011.
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To retrieve tax arrears, I-T to unleash power to arrest
Posted Date : 01-Jun-2011 , 06:09:06 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax Department is all set to crack the whip on tax defaulters by invoking its power, which has not been used for many years, to arrest and prosecute evaders.The step comes in the backdrop of the government initiating various steps to curb generation of black money in the country and a...
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I-T aims at over Rs 1 lkh cr refunds this fiscal: CBDT
Posted Date : 31-May-2011 , 09:39:30 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Income Tax Department today said it aims to disburse refunds of over Rs 1 lakh crore this fiscal, against Rs 73,000 crore given in the previous fiscal. "We intend to refund approximately Rs 1 lakh crore this fiscal," the outgoing Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Sudhir Chandra sa...
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Bank of India raises deposit rate by up to 2.5 per cent
Posted Date : 31-May-2011 , 09:35:33 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
State-owned Bank of India (BoI) today raised fixed deposit rates on various maturities by up to 2.5 per cent.The bank increased the interest rate by 250 basis points (2.5 per cent) to 5.50 per cent for term deposits of 31-45 days' tenor. The deposit rate increase is the maximum in this slab, the ban...
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JPC questions CAG on presumptive loss
Posted Date : 31-May-2011 , 09:32:50 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G scam on Monday questioned Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vinod Rai on how the department estimated the presumptive loss at Rs 1.76 lakh crore, and also whether it had the mandate to look into a policy decision.
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Montek favours introducing inheritance tax
Posted Date : 31-May-2011 , 09:12:17 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today favoured imposition of inheritance tax as part of overall direct tax reforms.
"I think in any comprehensive reform of the direct tax system, if somebody were to say that we should have an inheritance tax, it should be considered as pa...
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CBDT retains right to snoop on tax evaders
Posted Date : 31-May-2011 , 09:10:34 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the controlling authority of Income Tax department, will continue to have the right to tap phones of tax evaders on specific information, outgoing CBDT chairman Sudhir Chandra said on Tuesday.
"The power of interception stays with CBDT as there is no change...
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Prakash Chandra takes over as Chairman CBDT
Posted Date : 31-May-2011 , 11:14:04 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Shri Prakash Chandra, an IRS (IT) Officer of the 1973 batch, took over as Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) today afternoon. He will also continue to look after the work relating to Personnel and Vigilance matters.
Shri Chandra was Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) in Ra...
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Banks' NPAs may rise due to rate hikes: Central Bank of India
Posted Date : 31-May-2011 , 11:11:33 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Central Bank of India chief S Sridhar today said the industry's non-performing assets (NPAs) are likely to increase, as some smaller companies that borrowed during the low rates regime would find it difficult to service their loans due to the hike in rates."Some increase in NPAs cannot be ruled out ...
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Delhi HC directs ICAI to put Satyam scam on fast track
Posted Date : 30-May-2011 , 08:36:37 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Delhi High Court has allowed proceedings by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) against two Satyam auditors.
Furthermore, ICAI can now take disciplinary actions against two former PricewaterhouseCoopers auditors Subramani Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri. "The cour...
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Govt committee to probe tax-related criminal offences
Posted Date : 30-May-2011 , 11:14:47 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government today announced setting up of a special wing -- Directorate of Income Tax (Criminal Investigation) -- to investigate criminal offences under direct tax laws.The DCI, to be set up with immediate effect, would collect information about persons and transactions connected with criminal ac...
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I-T dept to publish & expose names of tax defaulters
Posted Date : 30-May-2011 , 05:48:36 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
With tax recovery to the tune of more than Rs one lakh crore held up for lack of information about the whereabouts of defaulters, the Income Tax(I-T) department is working on plans to publish their names in newspapers.The problem has been further compounded with several of the tax defaulters having ...
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Delhi Court fines plantation firm for flouting SEBI norms
Posted Date : 30-May-2011 , 05:47:25 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
A plantation firm and its three directors have been slapped with a fine of Rs two lakhs by a Delhi court for raising huge fund from the public after promising them high returns without prior approval from market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) P...
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Political parties to go corporate as EC mulls accounting rules
Posted Date : 29-May-2011 , 08:36:32 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
In an effort to curb the use of black money in the electoral process, the Election Commission now plans to ask political parties to conduct their finances in a corporate fashion by getting their accounts audited and publishing their audited finance sheets annually.
The EC has received a hos...
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I-T dept hits transparency button
Posted Date : 29-May-2011 , 08:31:35 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
To bring in more transparency in Income Tax (I-T) search and survey operations, the Central Board of Direct Taxes has asked all officials attached to its investigation and assessment wings to compulsorily provide phone numbers of their seniors to taxpayers during an operation.
The move is intended...
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FinMin sets up panel to suggest framework to seize black money
Posted Date : 28-May-2011 , 08:42:59 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Facing flak from different quarters for not doing enough to deal with the black money menace, the Government of India on Saturday constituted a high-level committee of taxmen to suggest a legal framework for confiscating such wealth by declaring it as "national assets".The Government is under imm...
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Haryana attracts investment of Rs 1 lakh cr: Hooda
Posted Date : 28-May-2011 , 08:41:14 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
With its land acquisition policy acclaimed outside the state, Haryana has attracted investment commitments worth Rs 1 lakh crore, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said today.With just about 1.6 per cent geographical area of the country and 1.9 per cent of its population, Haryana has been able...
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Finance ministry okays norms for new bank licences
Posted Date : 27-May-2011 , 09:27:26 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The finance ministry has cleared the Reserve Bank of India's draft guidelines on new bank licences with a rider that the existing 74% cap on foreign direct investment be retained. The central bank, which had proposed capping FDI in new banks at 49% in the first 10 years, is likely to make the guidel...
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