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  • Posted Date : 05-Apr-2016 , 08:38:27 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    A committee of the high court here has found discrepancies in data collated from various sources and recommended audit of eight brokers and seven clients or investors in the case of the defunct National Spot Exchange (NSEL). The panel gave its recommendation to the HC, which usually studies these an...

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  • Posted Date : 05-Apr-2016 , 08:33:03 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Spain, France and several other countries have launched tax evasion probes after a massive leak of confidential documents lifted the lid on the murky offshore financial dealings of a slew of politicians and celebrities. The scandal erupted yesterday when media groups began revealing the results o...

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  • Posted Date : 05-Apr-2016 , 08:27:26 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Council Affairs 4th April, 2016 ANNOUNCEMENT - RESPONDING TO TENDERS The matter pertaining to responding to tenders issued by various users of professional services or organization in areas exclusively reserved for the members of the Institute was recently considered by the Council of the I...

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  • Posted Date : 04-Apr-2016 , 08:25:43 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The growing non-performing assets in banks are a matter of great concern. Even the Union government is projecting NPAs at Rs 3.80 lakh crore, in reality it is not less than Rs 10 lakh crore, said Past President ICAI Amarjeet Chopra while speaking at a Bank audit seminar here on Friday at ICAI audito...

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  • Posted Date : 03-Apr-2016 , 07:44:00 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Karnataka State Chartered Accountants’ Association has lost a legal battle against the State’s two-year-old law, which permits using the services of cost accountants to audit accounts of cooperative societies. The earlier provision of the Karnataka Cooperative Societies (KCS) Ac...

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  • Posted Date : 03-Apr-2016 , 07:36:40 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    In yet another step aimed at reducing human interface between taxman and the taxpayer, the Income Tax department today operationalised a facility for e-filing of the first appeal before a tax officer. The department said the facility of filing the appeal form, like filing Income Tax Returns (IT...

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  • Posted Date : 03-Apr-2016 , 06:08:29 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    E-filing of income tax returns for the assessment year 2016-17 was launched Sunday for a select category of entities and individuals even as the IT department provided an online calculator for filers to do an easy check and obtain their annual tax liability. "Two Income Tax Re...

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  • Posted Date : 03-Apr-2016 , 06:04:46 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court against "illegal" surcharge levied on transactions done through debit and credit cards across the country while no such charge is imposed on cash payments. Advocate Amit Sahni in his public interest litigation, likely to be heard by a bench ...

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  • Posted Date : 02-Apr-2016 , 07:58:37 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Income tax department has processed over 6.53 lakh online rectification applications in 2015-16 fiscal and asked the assessees to make use of the e-filing portal for correcting mistakes in Income tax returns. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in a statement said the e-filing portal o...

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  • Posted Date : 01-Apr-2016 , 07:23:13 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Delhi High Court today issued notice to the Union Government over a plea moved by the Delhi High Court Bar Association that had challenged imposition of service tax on Senior Advocates. A Division Bench of Justices Dr. S. Muralidhar and RK Gauba also stayed the relevant ...

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  • Posted Date : 01-Apr-2016 , 08:10:34 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Chartered accountants of Karnataka under the Karnataka State Chartered Accountants Association have lost their case against the Karnataka State Cost Accountants Association in the high court. The CAs had a grouse against the state government allowing cost accountants to audit the account books of co...

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  • Posted Date : 31-Mar-2016 , 07:12:28 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    INCOME-TAX (NINTH AMENDMENT) RULES, 2016 - AMENDMENT IN RULE 12 AND SUBSTITUTION OF FORMS SAHAJ (ITR-1), ITR-2, ITR-2A, ITR-3, SUGAM (ITR-4S), ITR-4, ITR-5, ITR-6, ITR-7 AND ITR-V NOTIFICATION NO. SO 1262(E) [NO.24/2016 (F.NO.370142/2/2016-TPL)], DATED 30-3-2016 In exercise of the powers confe...

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  • Posted Date : 31-Mar-2016 , 07:49:56 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Auditors will now have to provide specific details about loan defaults by a company including lender-wise break up in their reports, as the government strengthens efforts to curb corporate misdoings. The latest step by the corporate affairs ministry also comes against the backdrop of rising bad...

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  • Posted Date : 31-Mar-2016 , 07:42:02 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Defaulters and non-filers of income tax return are facing the heat from the income-tax department, which has sent a massive number of notices to track down offenders. The move is the part of the drive to target 5.8 million-odd defaulters/non-filers and bring them back into the tax fol...

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  • Posted Date : 30-Mar-2016 , 10:20:50 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    In view of closing of the current financial year and to facilitate the tax-payers in payment of taxes, the Reserve Bank of India has issued instructions vide notification RBI/2015-16/342 dated March 17, 2016 directing all agency banks to keep the counters of their designated branches conducting gove...

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  • Posted Date : 30-Mar-2016 , 10:15:36 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Bank Branch Audit - Allocation of Branches Update: RBI has approved the Bank Branch Audit Pannel. Banks start sending mails for allocation of Branches. Following Banks has started the process for sending emails for allotment of Branches as informed by the Members. Bank of In...

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  • Posted Date : 30-Mar-2016 , 06:58:58 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    To protect securities market from cyber threats, regulator Sebi has asked commodity derivatives exchanges to put in place framework to safeguard systems, networks and databases from such attacks. "The exchanges are one of the systemically important Market Infrastructure I...

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  • Posted Date : 30-Mar-2016 , 06:50:38 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Government on Tuesday allowed 100 per cent FDI through automatic route in most of e-commerce retailing, a development that will boost domestic as well as foreign players like Flipkart and Amazon. While the decision to allow 100 per cent FDI in market place e-retail -- where the company only provi...

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  • Posted Date : 29-Mar-2016 , 10:19:35 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday said it has cancelled registration of 22 non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) including that of Amazan Capital and Mascot Commerce. The RBI said it cancelled the certificate of registration of the NBFCs in exercise of the powers conferred on it under Section ...

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  • Posted Date : 29-Mar-2016 , 10:19:33 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Central Board of Direct Taxes signed 11 unilateral APAs on 28th March, 2016. With this signing, India has entered into 59 bilateral and/or unilateral APAs. The Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) programme was introduced by the Finance Act, 2012 to provide a predictable and non-adversarial tax regim...

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  • Posted Date : 29-Mar-2016 , 10:10:58 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has decided to provide interest on inoperative accounts from 1st of next month. The move will benefit over nine crore such account-holders with a total deposits of over Rs 32,000 crore. The decision was taken by the EPFO apex decision making body Cen...

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  • Posted Date : 29-Mar-2016 , 07:37:02 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Amid rising concern over default by large borrowers like liquor baron Vijay Mallya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today stressed that the government as well as RBI is taking "tough action" to recover loans from corporate defaulters. "The only segment showing an increase in (corporat...

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  • Posted Date : 29-Mar-2016 , 07:22:18 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The following are some of the highlights of the Delhi Budget for 2016-17: Items on which Value Added Tax (VAT) is proposed to be slashed from 12.5 percent to 5 percent * Sweets and Namkeens * Readymade garments costing above Rs.5,000 * Marble * Footwear costing above Rs.500 * Schoo...

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  • Posted Date : 29-Mar-2016 , 07:19:47 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Sweets, namkeens, shoes, readymade garments, watches, marble stone and electric vehicles will cost less in the national capital as the Delhi government reduced VAT on them while presenting a "tax-free" budget for 2016-17 with focus on education, health and transport sectors.&nbsp...

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  • Posted Date : 29-Mar-2016 , 07:14:39 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    1. Utility for e-filing Service Tax Return (ST-3) for the period October, 2015 – March, 2016 is now available in both offline and online version. The last date of filing the ST-3 return for the said period is 25th April, 2016. To avoid congestion and inconvenience in the last minute, all asses...

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  • Posted Date : 28-Mar-2016 , 07:48:45 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    In a landmark judgment, the Delhi High Court has ruled that political parties should satisfy the requirement of the Income Tax Act, 1961, for maintaining properly audited accounts of income received through voluntary contributions. If this is not done, a party cannot claim exemption form paying inco...

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  • Posted Date : 26-Mar-2016 , 08:23:42 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The high court has not only restrained Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) staff in Karnataka from going ahead with their strike from Monday (March 28), but also told them not to disrupt bank work during the crucial March 28-31 period (end of the financial year). "Needless to say, ...

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  • Posted Date : 26-Mar-2016 , 08:06:52 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Delhi government today said VAT collection in the ongoing financial year has crossed Rs 20,000 crore, close to its revised target of Rs 21,000 crore. The government in its first Budget had set Rs 24,000 crore as the target but later, on the grounds of unsteady collection, it was toned down to Rs ...

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  • Posted Date : 26-Mar-2016 , 07:39:24 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) would abolish common proficiency test (CPT) examination for CA aspirants and reinstate the Foundation course instead from November this year. “From November onwards the CPT examination route will be scrapped as the Ministry of Corporate A...

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  • Posted Date : 25-Mar-2016 , 09:26:37 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

     Finance Ministry is likely to notify by first week of April new income tax return forms for Assessment Year 2016-17 which will more or less be similar to the one that was filed by assessees last year. As many as 93 per cent of the individual assessees file income tax returns online and the ...

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