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  • Posted Date : 20-Mar-2017 , 12:21:21 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Cabinet on Monday cleared four supporting GST legislations, paving the way for their introduction in Parliament as early as today. The four supporting legislations — the Compensation Law, the Central-GST (C-GST), Integrated-GST (I-GST) and Union Territory-GST (UT-GST) — would be i...

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  • Posted Date : 19-Mar-2017 , 07:52:29 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Pursuing with its ‘name and shame’ policy, the income tax department published the names of 29 large defaulters on Saturday through advertisements in national news papers. Together, these defaulters owe Rs 448.02 crore to the I-T department. The dues include both income tax and corporate...

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  • Posted Date : 19-Mar-2017 , 07:35:23 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Cabinet on Monday may take up for approval the supporting GST legislations, which will then be introduced in Parliament as the government sprints to meet the July 1 target date for rollout of the new indirect tax regime. A set of four supporting legislations -- the Compensation Law, the Centr...

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  • Posted Date : 18-Mar-2017 , 09:06:40 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    There is no proposal “at present” to replace Income Tax with Banking Transaction Tax or BTT, the government said today. To a query if the government has any proposal to replace the Income Tax with BTT, Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar said: “There is no such p...

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  • Posted Date : 18-Mar-2017 , 08:44:59 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Number of e-filed Income Tax Returns in Financial Year 2016-17 (till 28.02.2017) was 4.21 Cr: The total amount of refund issued in the current fiscal (including refund arising out of rectification, appeal effect etc.) is Rs. 1,48,459 crore (till 28.02.2017)    The number of e-filed I...

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  • Posted Date : 18-Mar-2017 , 08:41:27 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    As one time measure, the government has decided to write off outstanding taxes of 21.54 lakh taxpayers who owe Rs 100 or less. This was stated by Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Friday. He said that with a view to reducing the administ...

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  • Posted Date : 17-Mar-2017 , 05:22:40 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has found that chartered accountants and advocates helped 559 people launder Rs 3,790 crore in cash, Parliament was informed today. Without giving direct reply to a query on whether shell companies swindled Rs 3,900 crore during the demonetisation period,...

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  • Posted Date : 17-Mar-2017 , 08:04:17 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    After 12 meetings over the last six months, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, which is represented by Union ministers and officials and state finance ministries, on Thursday finally gave its nod to all the five draft legislations needed for implementation of the unified indirect tax. This...

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  • Posted Date : 16-Mar-2017 , 02:38:59 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Bank Branch Statutory Audit Updates Panel of Statutory Bank auditors received by various banks.  Mails received from following banks as confirmed by Members :- Andhra Bank Allahabad Bank Oriental Bank of Commerce United Bank of India Indian Overseas Bank  Sta...

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  • Posted Date : 16-Mar-2017 , 09:52:18 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Almost a month after 24-year-old Shubham Maheshwari, a CA student, went missing, his parents have still not lost hope and are visiting different parts of Uttar Pradesh in an effort to locate him. The parents said they are reaching out to local people to trace their son, but no one seems to have s...

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  • Posted Date : 16-Mar-2017 , 09:29:52 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Although the government has repeatedly vowed to prosecute shell companies for their role in money laundering, especially during the demonetisation period, the audit report prepared by the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) for FY 16 paints a bleak picture of the income tax department’s (ITD...

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  • Posted Date : 16-Mar-2017 , 09:24:36 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The income tax department has issued about 5,100 notices for high-value suspicious deposits post demonetisation and people have admitted to undisclosed income of over Rs 5,400 crore, Parliament was informed today. The department has conducted more than 1,100 search and survey operations and issued a...

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  • Posted Date : 16-Mar-2017 , 09:20:20 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The government has approved only 10 startups for availing tax benefits since the launch of Startup India programme in January 2016, Parliament was informed today. As on March 9, the government received 1,835 applications for seeking recognition under the Startup India programme and out of this, 7...

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  • Posted Date : 15-Mar-2017 , 09:12:36 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Parliament has passed the Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016 with the Lok Sabha approving the amendments made to the Bill. The Rajya Sabha had passed the bill with some amendments on Friday.  The amendments to the bill in the Lok Sabha were moved by Home Minister Rajnath Si...

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  • Posted Date : 13-Mar-2017 , 07:59:24 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    CBDT asks its field officers to fast track prosecution cases against shell companies which claimed bogus long-term capital gains.  The Central Board of Direct Taxes, CBDT has asked its field officers to fast track prosecution cases against shell companies which claimed bogus long-term c...

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  • Posted Date : 13-Mar-2017 , 07:52:58 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    As many as 455 fraud cases involving Rs one lakh and above were recorded in ICICI Bank between April 2016 to December 2016, data received from the Reserve Bank of India has showed. While ICICI topped the list of banks that have witnessed frauds, State Bank of India came second with 429 such cases, a...

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  • Posted Date : 13-Mar-2017 , 07:50:01 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    All limits on cash withdrawal from savings bank account imposed on November 8 after the demonetisation drive has been removed with effective from Monday as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had announced about it last month. Earlier, the central bank had removed all curbs on branch withdrawals from cu...

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  • Posted Date : 11-Mar-2017 , 08:05:31 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Service tax arrears more than tripled to Rs 71,257 crore in 2014-15 within a couple of years, apex auditor CAG said today, expressing concern that the recovery is not being given due importance. The arrears of service tax were at Rs 22,014 crore in 2012-13, it said. The Comptroller and Auditor...

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  • Posted Date : 10-Mar-2017 , 07:22:30 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) cannot lend more than Rs 25,000 in cash against gold, the Reserve Bank said today. The earlier provision for NBFC was that high value loans against gold of Rs 1 lakh and above must only be disbursed by cheque.  RBI reduced the amount to Rs 25,000 from th...

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  • Posted Date : 10-Mar-2017 , 07:16:34 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

      In continuation of our efforts to help our members acquire CPA designation, we are pleased to inform you that we have launched a helpline platform in this regard. We are very fortunate to have our members Dweep Mehta, Priyanka Baidya, Saoli Chakraborty (recent successfu...

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  • Posted Date : 09-Mar-2017 , 09:54:23 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Parliament has passed the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 with Lok Sabha approving it today which was already cleared by Rajya Sabha. The bill seeks to enhance paid maternity leave for women engaged in organised sector from 12 weeks to 26 weeks for two surviving children. It will be appl...

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  • Posted Date : 09-Mar-2017 , 09:01:36 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) plans to train 15 lakh traders across the country over the next one year in GST basics, according to CMA Manas KR Thakur, National President. Addressing a press conference here, he said, “We were among several other professional bodies who h...

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  • Posted Date : 08-Mar-2017 , 09:11:24 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Many spend years to clear the chartered accountancy exam but this 19-year-old girl did it in one go and became the youngest woman to become a CA in country. She is entering a field that is largely dominated by men at a tender age, but doesn't find it challenging at all. "I don't th...

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  • Posted Date : 08-Mar-2017 , 08:02:46 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the Finance Bill pertaining to the budget 2017-18 will be passed before March 31. This will enable ministries to plan their spending from April 1 as the funds will be available from the start of the fiscal year. The date for presentation of Union Budg...

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  • Posted Date : 08-Mar-2017 , 07:58:42 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against a Deputy General Manager (DGM) and the Assistant General Manager (AGM) of Union Bank of India in Mumbai and three directors for alleged violation of RBI guidelines during demonetisation. Additionally, proprietors of a private firm ...

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  • Posted Date : 08-Mar-2017 , 07:37:25 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Income Tax department has launched a probe against petrol pumps for suspected conversion of unaccounted cash during demonetisation. Petrol pumps were allowed to accept old currency notes in payments towards refueling of vehicles after demonetisation. They are under the scanner of the I-T departme...

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  • Posted Date : 07-Mar-2017 , 07:43:30 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Supreme Court has questioned the Centre and the RBI on a plea made by petitioner, Sharad Mishra.   The plea brought in focus the allegation that people were not allowed to deposit the old currency notes of 500 and 1000 in the specified RBI branches.   The Supreme Court bench, heade...

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  • Posted Date : 07-Mar-2017 , 07:19:43 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Trade Mark Rules, 2017 have come into effect from 06th March which will replace the erstwhile Trade Mark Rules 2002 and streamline and simplify the processing of Trade Mark applications.  In the revamped rules number of Trade Mark forms have been reduced from 74 to eight. Commerce and In...

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  • Posted Date : 04-Mar-2017 , 10:04:58 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Centre and states have decided to exempt agriculturists from registering under the Goods and Services Tax regime, while the threshold for traders has been set at Rs 20 lakh turnover. The GST Council has also empowered commissioner-level officers to allow payment of GST levy by a taxpayer in i...

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  • Posted Date : 04-Mar-2017 , 10:02:47 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The GST Council today approved the final draft of Central GST and Integrated GST laws in its meeting headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi. Briefing media in New Delhi, Mr Jaitley said, the UT-GST and SGST laws will be approved in the next meeting on 16th of this month. The comp...

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