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about a year ago
The provision of Sec 292A of the Companies Act, 1956 regarding the constitution and functioning of an audit committee:1. Every public co having paid up capital of not less than 5 crores of rupees shall constitute a committee of the Board known as &qu...
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about a year ago
Environmental reporting deals with the disclosure by an entity of environmentally related data like environmental risks, impacts, policies, strategies, targets, costs etc to those who have an interest in such information as an aid to enabling / enric...
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2 years ago
Foreign companies selling assets in India could end up enjoying a concessional rate of capital gains tax of 10% even if these companies enjoy the foreign currency fluctuation benefit.This follows the ruling by the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) ...
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2 years ago
Business meetings are held for a variety of reasons, but one common characteristic is the sharing of information with others. As in dining, there are rules of etiquette that go along with meetings. I cannot believe the number of times I have been to ...
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2 years ago
The Income Tax history in modern India dates back to 1860. In this year first Income Tax Act was introduced and which remained in force for a period of 5 years. This Act lapsed in 1865. Thereafter Act-II of 1886 was in force. This Act of 1886 was the...
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2 years ago
Applicability :Individual and HUFTaxability:Any sum of money,aggregate value of which exceeds Rs.50,000 /- is received during the previous year without consideration,by an Individual or a HUF from any persons on or after 01.04.06 then the whole of th...
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2 years ago
Suppose a machine was imported for one lakh US dollars when the exchange rate was Rs 45 per dollar. Both in the accounting records as well as in the tax records, the transaction would have been recorded debiting the asset concerned with Rs 45 lakh. B...
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2 years ago
Goods of special importanceThere are restrictions on imposition of sales tax on declared goods.Article 286(3)(a) of Constitution of India authorises Parliament to declare some goods as of ‘special importance’ and to impose restrictions and conditions...
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2 years ago
Sale in course of exportArticle 286(1)(b) of Constitution of India prohibits imposition of sales tax on import and export by State Government. Since charging section 6(1) of CST Act levies tax only on inter-State sale, naturally, there is no CST on s...
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2 years ago
Valuation of closing stock requires consideration of Income Tax, Cenvat, Accounting Standards and Company Law.Stock should be valued at cost or market value, whichever is lower, as it is a prudent business practice. This principle has been accepted i...
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2 years ago
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is in favour of a domestic card payment settlement company to rival the global payment majors Visa and MasterCard. The Indian Banks Association (IBA) had earlier proposed the setting up of a domestic card transaction ...
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2 years ago
The All India Rubber Industries Association (AIRIA) has sought a removal of anti-dumping duty on styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), which is a synthetic substitute for natural rubber. “There is no logic for clamping an anti-dumping duty on SBR, since i...
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2 years ago
It is widely known that gifts from relatives are tax-exempt. But what is not widely known at all is that gifts received even from non-relatives can also be completely exempt from income tax. Here is the complete run-down from a renowned tax expert. I...
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2 years ago
First the good news. In the Doing Business report 2008, which is brought out annually by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC), India has climbed 12 ranks, which makes it the fastest-reforming economy in south Asia. Its speed of ...
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2 years ago
Few days ago when an income-tax raid in Chirkunda, city with a population of little over 39,000 (according to 2001 Census) in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, yielded a disclosure of over Rs 70 crore of concealed income, it made news only in local dail...
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