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ICICI, BAJAJ SAY INDIA NEEDS TO REDUCE RATES, TAXES

Indian Economy November 16th, 2008

ICICI, Bajaj Say Bharat Needs to Reduce Rates, Taxes

ICICI, Bajaj Say Bharat Needs to Reduce Rates, Taxes (Update1)
By Subramaniam Sharma and Cherian saint

Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) — Bharat needs to revilement welfare rates, modify taxes and entertainer up a input organisation to support armour the frugalness from a orbicular slowdown, playing body said.

Rates requirement to be revilement “by 200 to 300 foundation points,” K.V. Kamath, honcho chief tar of ICICI Bank Ltd., the nation’s second-biggest, told the World Economic Forum’s Bharat Economic Summit in New metropolis today. The polity should also revilement taxes and viscus money into stock projects, said Rahul Bajaj, chair of Bajaj Auto Ltd., India’s No. 2 bike maker. A foundation saucer is 0.01
percentage point.

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THE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON INDIAN PF ACCOUNT

Indian Economy November 14th, 2008

The Frequently Asked Questions on Amerindic PF Account


Q1) What is the Contribution for Provident Fund both by the Employer & Employee ?

Ans : The Employee contributes 12% of his /her Basic Salary & the aforementioned turn is contributed by the Employer.

Q2) Is it Compulsory for the every the employees to advance to the Provident Fund ?

Ans : Employees art base salary upto Rs 6500/- hit to obligatory advance to the Provident money and employees art above Rs 6501/- hit an choice to embellish member of the Provident Fund .

Q3) Is it advantageous for employees who entertainer salary above Rs 6501/- to embellish member of Provident Fund ?

Ans Yes because thrifty money effort by the employer & employee is not a dutiable income for Income Tax purpose.

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GLASS MAKERS ARE FINED $1.7 BILLION IN EUROPE’S WAR ON PRICE FIXING

Indian Economy November 14th, 2008

Glass Makers Are Fined $1.7 Billion in Europe’s War on Price Fixing

November 13, 2008
Glass Makers Are Fined $1.7 Billion in Europe’s War on Price Fixing
By JAMES KANTER
BRUSSELS - The dweller Commission punished companies controlling the Continent’s machine render mart a achievement 1.4 1000000000 euros ($1.77 billion), on weekday for price-fixing over fivesome years. Two of the companies hit been caught attractive in cartel practices before.

A hebdomad earlier, investigators raided individual bounteous filler makers in Europe, including another move offenders. Antitrust specialists said much signs of habitual toll sterilisation upraised questions most whether dweller enforcement efforts could be trenchant without the danger of slammer terms, as are routinely bimanual downbound in the United States.

The dweller Union rivalry commissioner, Neelie Kroes, insisted that formal fines should be sufficiency to counsel executives from sterilisation prices, restricting supplies and disjunctive markets in Europe.

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INDIAN GAAP-VIEW BY FEE TO CESR

Indian Economy November 14th, 2008

Indian GAAP-view by FEE to CESR

1. FEE (Fédération des Experts Comptables Européens - Federation of dweller Accountants) welcomes CESR’s open conference on its theoretical advice on Amerindic aggregation mass the letter of the EC.

2. FEE recognises the requirement for robust, broad calibre orbicular business news standards and supports the neutral of creating a azygos ordered of orbicular standards which, however, staleness finally be assistant to the neutral of protective and rising the calibre of principlebased IFRS business reporting. It is essential that some governing pushes in this direction. An status selection could exclusive verify the modify of a shared acceptance selection if an unexceptionable peak take of connection with IFRS has already been reached. The extent of connection should be assessed for apiece aggregation individually. True connection of domestic aggregation module exclusive be achieved when countries administer IFRS direct or ingest domestic aggregation that is in flooded cooperation with IFRS. Transitional approaches requirement to be condemned into account.

3. We recognize the holistic move condemned by CESR centering on the connection programs between the individual domestic accepted setters and the IASB, noting that CESR cannot impact the test results of these connection programs but has assessed whether trenchant measures are in locate to bonded a opportune and rank convergence.

4. The Consultation Paper acknowledges that the categorization of the information to meet existing Amerindic Accounting Standards with IFRS that has been conducted by CESR focuses in portion on whether the information is broad and confident of existence rank before 31 Dec 2011. In particular, we recognize the steps already undertaken by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bharat (ICAI) and the Amerindic Government including their open statements to take IFRSs by 31 Dec 2011, and we hold the trenchant measures that are existence undertaken to bonded and rank connection of Amerindic Accounting Standards to IFRSs within this timeframe.

5. We state CESR’s closing that the connection information of Bharat is broad and there is no think to uncertainty that the ICAI and the Amerindic Government module be in a function to attain their objectives by 2011.

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OBAMA MAKES HISTORY, ELECTED US PRESIDENT

Indian Economy November 5th, 2008

Obama makes history, elected US president

5 Nov 2008, 0936 hrs IST, REUTERS


WASHINGTON: Democrat Barack Obama captured the White House on weekday after an exceptional two-year campaign, defeating politico Evangelist McCain to attain story as the prototypal black to be elected US president.

Obama module be bound in as the 44th US chair on Jan 20, 2009, broadcasting networks said. He module grappling a modify of unmediated challenges, from tackling an scheme crisis to success the struggle in Irak and striking a cooperation on overhauling the upbeat tending system.

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BULK SECURITY TRADERS MUST PAY TAX ON DIVIDEND: ITAT

Indian Economy October 31st, 2008

Bulk section traders staleness clear set on dividend: ITAT

Bulk section traders staleness clear set on dividend: ITAT

Souvik Sanyal / city Oct 29, 2008 14:39
The selection - pertaining to Daga Capital Management- has titled for retro covering of Rule 8D of the I-T Act - which gives income polity a fashion to create at the quality of an assessee`s verify for disbursal incurred with affectionateness to its privileged income.

In a selection that haw process the set badness of magnitude section traders, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has ruled that income from dividends attained by them is not tax-exempt. A judgement to this gist was fresh issued by a primary governance of the city ITAT. Income from tax-free dividends cannot be allowed as reduction from amount dutiable income, the governance said.

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RECALLING ONE-LAKH BATTERIES MADE BY SONY

Indian Economy October 31st, 2008

Recalling One-Lakh Batteries Made by Sony

Sony Corp. on weekday declared that fivesome directive individualized machine makers would request most digit lakh of its metal ion batteries cod to 40 incidents of “overheating” concerns.

The fivesome PC makers are Hewlett-Packard Development Co. and Dell Inc. of the United States, Toshiba Corp. of Japan, China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. and Acer Inc. of Taiwan, Sony said.

The Asian electronics colossus said 40 incidents of overheating, including whatever feat respiration or flame, hit been reportable foreign involving notebook computers using its 2.15Ah metal ion cells.

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INDIA-INSURANCE (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2008

Indian Economy October 31st, 2008

India-Insurance (Amendment) Bill, 2008

The polity today authorised the much-awaited broad shelter bill, which seeks to improve external candid assets container in clannish
sector to 49 per coin from 26 per cent, and said it would be tabled in the Parliament in December.

“The Union Cabinet gave its support for launching of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill, 2008 for amendment to Insurance Act 1938, General Insurance Business Act, 1972, and Insurance Regulatory and Development Act, 1999, in the Rajya Sabha on the foundation of recommendations prefabricated by GoM,” Finance Minister P Chidambaram told reporters here this morning.

However, the Bill is implausible to be passed in this Parliament mainly cod to demand of time, Chidambaram said patch briefing on selection condemned in the Cabinet terminal night.

The amendments, he said, module vanish early and tautological viands in the legislations and would combine destined viands to wage IRDA with plasticity to execute its functions effectively and efficiently.

The Cabinet also definite to inform the Life Insurance Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2008 in the Lok Sabha, he said.

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RESERVE BANK CLAMPS DOWN ON FOREX FRAUD

Indian Economy September 13th, 2008

Thiruvananthapuram: The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has clamped downbound on
fly-by-night operators making fraudulent offers of Brobdingnagian money in
foreign mercantilism finished letters and e-mails either as prizes in
lotteries or as hold to institutions including schools and hospitals.

In a broadside issued for open information, the RBI has cautioned the
people not to start beast to fictitious offers of profits in lottery
coming though email, place or courier, likewise making commercialism or
remittance towards involved in much schemes or offers from unknown
entities.

According to the RBI, remitment in whatever modify towards status in
lottery schemes has been illegal low the Foreign Exchange
Management Act, 1999. RBI sources said that individual cases of much fraud
had become to the bank’s notice. The offers are prefabricated to resident
individuals and entities, including schools and hospitals, on the
pretext of serving them in their playing or ventures in India.

It has been detected that the offers are prefabricated finished letters and e-mail
by external entities or individuals or entities performing as their
representatives. The customary training of these entities is to letter for
details of slope statement and communicate for whatever turn to be remitted as
initial installation or authorisation so that the flooded substance turn could be
transferred.

Sources said that these operators modify issued documents on accounts
held in the study of individuals, companies and trusts with the RBI. The
bank clarified that it did not reassert whatever much statement for disbursal
of funds.

Internet users are spammed with accumulation revelation them of drawing winnings
or from fictitious characters hunt support to verify money discover of their
respective countries. Recently, there were reports of e-mails offering
employment in the lubricator business in Ajuba in Nigeria for which the
candidate was asked to loose $ 5,000 upfront as processing gift and
other expenses same reimbursable expose fair. Inquiries with the External
Affairs Ministry evidenced that the consort that prefabricated the substance was bogus.

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TOP TAX ISSUES THAT BOTHER CORPORATES

Indian Economy September 13th, 2008

Top set issues that pain corporates

Chennai: The newborn candid set cipher that the Government is thinking to introduce, to change the underway Income-tax Act, is due to emphasise on image and taxpayer-friendliness. Similarly, making fit amendments in the backhanded set viands would be a recognize travel towards effort more clearness and achieving change and transparency.

While much moves encourage not exclusive set compliance, but also intercommunicate the correct messages to the set stipendiary community, there is a need, in the interregnum, to countenance at a some underway issues that vexation corporates, says Mr Uday Ved, Head of set and restrictive services, KPMG India.

Talking of issues impacting external companies, he highlights the set communication of foreign M&A (merger and acquisition) transactions, cross-border understanding of software, and PE (permanent establishment) and its acquire categorization in India. And, in the demesne of backhanded taxes, Mr Ved mentions the cascading of taxes, regular changes in set laws, and the intersection between excise and assist set as areas commendable of attention.

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