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• Himachal Pradesh CM Launches Web Portal Of Excise And Taxation Department Facilitating E-payment Of VAT
• Income Tax Dept Conducts Searches On 30 Ispat Premises
• Major Changes In Direct Tax Provisions Unlikely In Budget 2011
• Post Housing Loan Scam -developers Dependence On Private Money-lenders May Increase
• Inclusive Development Needs To Be Combined With Consolidation Of Public Finances Financial Stability Employment Genera
• RBI May Accept IFRS But Won T Leave Prudential Norms
• Income Tax Returns Can T Be Basis To Fix Maintenance
• Bribes-for-loans Scam- Banks To Tighten Norms For Sanction Of Loan To Real Estate Companies
• 11 Real Estate Companies Are Already Under CCI Scanner
• Banks Want RBI To Define Teaser Loan Schemes
• Common Proficiency Test - Proposed Amendment In The Chartered Accountants Regulations 1988
• CBI Looking Into Bad Debt Write-offs By Some Of The Banks And Financial Institutions Involved In Money Matter Bribery Sc
• Announcement Regarding ISA AT To Be Held In Dec 2010 - 29-11-2010
• CAs Should Be Watchdogs Of The Economy - Chairman CBDT
• Know ITR-V Receipt Status Income Tax Refund Failure Status And Processing Status Of E-Returns In Respect Of Return File
• Whether Higher Stock Than Actual Declared To Bank Attracts Additions U S 69 Of The Income Tax Act 1961
• Constitutional Validity And Retrospective Levy Of Service Tax On Renting Of Immovable Property Upheld
• Delhi ITAT Rules On Constitution Of PE In Case Of Outsourcing Of Services To An Indian Affiliate And On Attribution Of Profits To Such A PE
• Mumbai ITAT Rules Overseas Taxes Not Deductible Against Taxable Profits
• Tariff Value For Brass Scrap And Poppy Seeds Modified - Notification No 99 2010 Dated November 30 2010
• Export Of Cotton Yarn Not Entitled To DEPB Benefit Under The DEPB Rate Schedule
• DGFT-Amendment Modification Of SION S No C-739 Under Engineering Product Group
• Shortfall In Maintenance Of SLR Additional Liquidity Support Under LAF
• Income Tax Department Is Releasing 3 New Services On The E-filing Website
• Clarification Regarding Quantity Discounts Bonus Quantities Etc Cleared Without Payment Of Duty Under MRP Based Assessment - Reg
• Exchange Rate Notification For Import Export Of Goods With Effect From 1st December 2010
• Classification Of PXI Controllers Input Output Modules Signal Converters And Chassis And Its Parts-regarding
• CS Inter Important Questions LAW
• MS EXCELL

Himachal Pradesh CM Launches Web Portal Of Excise And Taxation Department Facilitating E-payment Of VAT Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:22 AM PST Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today launched new web portal of Excise and Taxation department for e-payment of VAT at his Office Chamber here today by accepting payment of Rs 99 999 from Sanjay Guleria Director S [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Income Tax Dept Conducts Searches On 30 Ispat Premises Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:25 PM PST The Income Tax Department today conducted nation-wide searches at more than 30 premises of steel maker Ispat Industries in connection with alleged tax evasion nbsp The searches were conducted at Mumbai Nagpur Delhi Kolkata and [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Major Changes In Direct Tax Provisions Unlikely In Budget 2011 Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:20 PM PST Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is unlikely to go for any major changes in direct taxes when he presents the Budget in February nbsp According to indications he will restrict himself to minor tweaking in the policy on income an [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Post Housing Loan Scam -developers Dependence On Private Money-lenders May Increase Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:17 PM PST The recent housing loan scam would increase developers dependence on private money-lenders While cash flow from various quarters like private equities and investors has already become scarcer the scam is expected to adversely i [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Inclusive Development Needs To Be Combined With Consolidation Of Public Finances Financial Stability Employment Genera Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:09 PM PST Inclusive Development needs to be combined with Consolidation of Public Finances Financial Stability Employment Generation and Economic Growth to Achieve Unhampered Growth- FM nbsp Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

RBI May Accept IFRS But Won T Leave Prudential Norms Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:06 PM PST Accounting regulator ICAI today said that the Reserve Bank of India RBI may accept global accounting practice IFRS but will not give up prudential norms completely as they saved Indian banks from global financial meltdown nbsp P [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Income Tax Returns Can T Be Basis To Fix Maintenance Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST Tax returns are not sacrosanct when it comes to calculating the maintenance paid by a man to his estranged wife and kids the Bombay high court has ruled nbsp In two recent cases the HC thwarted the attempt of two businessmen who [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Bribes-for-loans Scam- Banks To Tighten Norms For Sanction Of Loan To Real Estate Companies Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Stung by the real estate bribes-for-loans scam banks and housing finance companies will henceforth seek additional security and add completion guarantee clauses into agreements before sanctioning loans to developers nbsp Several b [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

11 Real Estate Companies Are Already Under CCI Scanner Posted: 30 Nov 2010 03:53 PM PST Within a week of the CBI arresting senior bankers in the housing finance racket the competition watchdog CCI on Monday said 11 real estate companies are already under its scanner nbsp I can only say that of the 137 cases that we [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Banks Want RBI To Define Teaser Loan Schemes Posted: 30 Nov 2010 03:48 PM PST Even as Corporation Bank has decided to be the first one to withdraw teaser loan schemes others led by the State Bank of India SBI have asked the Reserve Bank of India RBI to define teaser loans nbsp Stung by the public critic [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Common Proficiency Test - Proposed Amendment In The Chartered Accountants Regulations 1988 Posted: 30 Nov 2010 03:09 PM PST The President in his column President s page in the December 2010 issue of the Journal The Chartered Accountant has inter-alia conveyed the decision of the Council as under nbsp Common Proficiency Test The Council at its 30 [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

CBI Looking Into Bad Debt Write-offs By Some Of The Banks And Financial Institutions Involved In Money Matter Bribery Sc Posted: 30 Nov 2010 10:19 AM PST The CBI is looking into bad debt write-offs by some of the banks and financial institutions involved in the kickbacks-for-loan rackets it busted last week Two of them Punjab National Bank PNB and Bank of India have written [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Announcement Regarding ISA AT To Be Held In Dec 2010 - 29-11-2010 Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:46 AM PST The Committee on Information Technology has introduced New Syllabus with effect from April 2010 for which first Assessment Test will be held in Dec 2010 It has been decided that the members already registered for the ISA course prio [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

CAs Should Be Watchdogs Of The Economy - Chairman CBDT Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:31 AM PST Indian economy is buoyant strong and has kept recession at bay and to keep the progress going the contribution of chartered accountants is important They must act as the watchdogs of economy and contribute to nation building S [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Know ITR-V Receipt Status Income Tax Refund Failure Status And Processing Status Of E-Returns In Respect Of Return File Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:27 AM PST Income Tax Department is releasing 3 new services on the e-filing website These are available from the Services menu on the Menu Bar on top The services are available without requiring any login and are also available under My Ac [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Whether Higher Stock Than Actual Declared To Bank Attracts Additions U S 69 Of The Income Tax Act 1961 Posted: 30 Nov 2010 02:16 PM PST Section 69 of Income Tax Act deals with the cases of unexplained investments which have been made by the assessee but not accounted for in his books of accounts if any maintained and for which no satisfactory explanation is offered by [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Constitutional Validity And Retrospective Levy Of Service Tax On Renting Of Immovable Property Upheld Posted: 01 Dec 2010 01:13 AM PST Hon ble Punjab Haryana High Court in its decision dated 22 November 2010 on the issue of constitutional validity of the levy of service tax on renting of immovable property and the validity of the retrospective amendment to the defin [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Delhi ITAT Rules On Constitution Of PE In Case Of Outsourcing Of Services To An Indian Affiliate And On Attribution Of Profits To Such A PE Posted: 01 Dec 2010 01:08 AM PST The ITAT held that the relationship of the Taxpayers with their Indian subsidiary to whom the Taxpayers had sub contracted assigned provision of software development and call center services resulted in a permanent establishment PE [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Mumbai ITAT Rules Overseas Taxes Not Deductible Against Taxable Profits Posted: 01 Dec 2010 01:02 AM PST The ITAT held that the taxes paid on profits whether on presumptive basis or on the basis of actual profits earned represent application of income and are not allowed as deduction in computation of taxable profits In terms of applic [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Tariff Value For Brass Scrap And Poppy Seeds Modified - Notification No 99 2010 Dated November 30 2010 Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:02 AM PST Notification No 99 2010-CUSTOMS N T New Delhi 30th November 2010 S O E In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section 2 of section 14 of the Customs Act 1962 52 of 1962 the Board being satisfied th [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Export Of Cotton Yarn Not Entitled To DEPB Benefit Under The DEPB Rate Schedule Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:52 PM PST Policy Circular No nbsp nbsp 04 RE-2010 2009-14 nbsp nbsp nbsp Dated nbsp nbsp nbsp 29 11 2010 nbsp Subject nbsp Export of Cotton Yarn not entitled to DEPB benefit under the DEPB Rate Schedule nbsp nbsp nb [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

DGFT-Amendment Modification Of SION S No C-739 Under Engineering Product Group Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:49 PM PST Public Notice No nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 16 nbsp RE-2010 2009-2014Dated the nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 26 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp November 2010 nbsp Subject -Amendment modification of SION S No C-739 under Engineeri [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Shortfall In Maintenance Of SLR Additional Liquidity Support Under LAF Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:38 PM PST RBI 2010-11 290Ref DBOD No Ret BC 63 12 02 001 2010-11November 30 2010Dear Sir Section 24 of Banking Regulation Act 1949 Shortfall in Maintenance of Statutory Liquidity Ratio SLR Additional Liquidity Support under Liquidi [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Income Tax Department Is Releasing 3 New Services On The E-filing Website Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:39 AM PST Income Tax Department is releasing 3 new services on the e-filing website nbsp Income Tax Department is releasing 3 new services on the e-filing website These are available from the Services menu on the Menu Bar on top [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Clarification Regarding Quantity Discounts Bonus Quantities Etc Cleared Without Payment Of Duty Under MRP Based Assessment - Reg Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:19 AM PST Circular No 938 28 09-CX nbsp 29th November 2010 nbsp Subject Clarification regarding Quantity discounts bonus quantities etc cleared without payment of duty under MRP based assessment - reg nbsp nbsp A larger bench [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Exchange Rate Notification For Import Export Of Goods With Effect From 1st December 2010 Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:13 AM PST nbsp NO 98 2010-CUSTOMS N T DATED THE 26th November 2010 nbsp S O nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp E In exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Customs Act 1962 52 of 1962 and in suppression of [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

Classification Of PXI Controllers Input Output Modules Signal Converters And Chassis And Its Parts-regarding Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:56 AM PST Circular No 42 2010-Customs 29th November 2010 nbsp Subject Classification of PXI Controllers Input Output Modules Signal Converters and Chassis and its parts-regarding nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

CS Inter Important Questions LAW Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:51 AM PST CS inter important Questions commercial LAW others Regards Madhusudan Kabra Helping Hand [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

MS EXCELL Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:28 PM PST MS EXCELL FOR CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS BY CA SUNIL B GABHAWALA [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.taxguru.in for full article ]]

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Fwd: [Say No to UID] Sign outside Closed Door: SHINING INDIA, Global...

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Fwd: [bangla-vision] Dr. OMAR KHALIDI'S DEMISE

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THE ALL INDIAFORUM OF MUSLIM JOURNALISTS
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The Forum places in record its deep sense of sorrow at the sudden and tragic
demise of Dr.Omar Khalidi Saheb in America. In him, the Muslim Ummah in general
and Indian Muslims in particular have lost a dauntless fighter against injustice
and discrimination. The Forum appeals to Muslim leaders to take suitable
substantial steps to perpetuate his memory. May Allah admit him in the Jannathe
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Fwd: [bangla-vision] The WikiLeaks release on Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

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Assalaamu Alaikum (Greetings of Peace):

 

"Plausible Denial" is one of the oldest tricks in the government playbook, and that is precisely what we are getting in the WikiLeaks release on Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. (see Guardian report below)

 

While U.S. "diplomats" may or may not have been aware of Aafia's whereabouts, her captors, which included American agents, knew precisely where she was! Anyone who objectively connects the dots of what is known will easily be able to see this for themselves.

 

The U.S. embassy reportedly wrote on July 31, 2008, "Bagram officials have assured us that they have not been holding Siddiqui for the last four years, as has been alleged." Well this is precisely what "Bagram officials" said to the British investigative journalist Yvonne Ridley. They initially denied that any woman was being held at Bagram. They were later forced to retract that lie, only to compound it with another: There was one woman, but it wasn't Aafia Siddiqui.

 

What do we know? According to Yvonne Ridley and Moazzam Beg (a former unjustly held "war on terrorism" detainee), we know that four men escaped from Bagram, and in recounting their observations and experiences shared information about a young Pakistani woman who could only be identified by her number "650." We know this woman was physically abused and tortured; and that she was also tortured mentally and emotionally (as only a mother could be) by the missing children who were torn away from her.

 

What we know is that after a British detainee, Binyan Mohamed, was released from his secret detention and allowed to return home, he positively identified Aafia Siddiqui from a photograph - as the woman he SAW WITH HIS OWN EYES at Bagram.

 

And finally, what we know, is that a request was made, and a determination given, that during the trial of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui at a federal courthouse in New York City, those missing five years in Aafia's life were officially "off limits." The only time we got a partial glimpse into those missing years was when Aafia Siddiqui took the stand herself, and over the repeated objections of government prosecutors, pulled back the curtain just a little! Why did they object? Because the government has a lot to hide!

 

While the trial has now ended, and Dr. Aafia Siddiqui has been safely put away, efforts are still being made to keep this long suffering woman in complete and total isolation. She has yet to receive a visit from her own blood brother, Muhammad Siddiqui. Why? Because while theoretically he's on an approved list for visitation, "special rules" apply to his sister! (Because the oppressors still feel the need to cover their asses.)

 

I believe it was Winston Churchill who once said: "During times of war, the truth is so precious it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies." What we are seeing in the WikiLeaks release on Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, is nothing more that a 21st century manifestation of that rather dubious principle, still in play.

 

The struggle continues...

 

El-Hajj Mauri' Saalakhan 

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WikiLeaks cables: Mystery deepens over Pakistan scientist Aafia Siddiqui

Embassy cables show US diplomats were non-plussed over neuroscientist's whereabouts before she surfaced in Afghanistan

• Declan Walsh
• The Guardian, Wednesday 1 December 2010

Aafia Siddiquin custody in Afghanistan after going missing for five years. WikiLeaks cables reveal diplomats were unaware of her whereabouts, contrary to popular sentiment in Pakistan Photograph: Anonymous/AP

Contrary to claims by supporters of Aafia Siddiqui, the controversial Pakistani neuroscientist was never imprisoned at the Bagram military prison in Afghanistan, the embassy cables suggest.

"Bagram officials have assured us that they have not been holding Siddiqui for the last four years, as has been alleged," the embassy wrote on July 31, 2008.

The record is a fresh twist on one of the most vexed mysteries of the Bush-era "war on terror". Siddiqui, an MIT-educated 31-year-old, disappeared from Karachi with her three children in March 2003, shortly before US officials accused her of belonging to al-Qaida. She resurfaced in Afghanistan five years later, accused of trying to shoot American soldiers and was sent for trial to New York.

This year she was convicted and sentenced to 86 years in prison, prompting protests across Pakistan.

Siddiqui's family and supporters insist Siddiqui is innocent, and that she spent the "missing" five years between 2003 and 2008 in US detention at the Bagram base.

US denials of that account have generally been treated with scepticism by the Pakistani media, which has given credence to the family's account and dismissed US statements as part of a cover-up.

But the cables suggest American officials felt they genuinely had nothing to hide about Siddiqui and her three missing children, two of whom resurfaced in Karachi.

After Siddiqui was convicted last February, ambassador Anne Patterson said that Pakistani reaction was driven by "one-sided" media coverage that caused Pakistanis "to conclude her acquital was a near certainty".

Just as Pakistanis accuse the Americans of a conspiracy to convict Siddiqui, US officials cast a wry eye over the Pakistani activists who helped turn her case into a cause célèbre of anti-Americanism in Pakistan.

At one point the cables note that lawyer Javed Iqbal Jaffery, who filed a court application on Siddiqui's behalf, had also represented the disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. It was "unclear who is paying Jaffrey and/or orchestrating this campaign on Siddiqui's behalf."

The cables also reflect how the issue became a thorn in relations between the two countries, recording numerous requests by prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to visiting US politicians for Siddiqui's return to Pakistan.

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Fwd: Fw: URGENT: War criminals not welcome - Oppose changes to universal jurisdiction

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URGENT: War criminals not welcome - Oppose changes to universal jurisdiction

 

Dear all,

 

The recently published Police Reform Bill includes proposals which, if passed, will make it much more difficult to obtain an arrest warrant for anyone accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

 

Currently, for a magistrate to issue an arrest warrant, serious evidence must be presented against the person concerned. The proposed change adds a political dimension to a legal decision and introduces a source of delay when urgent action may be required to stop a suspect escaping justice. Britain has a duty to seek out and prosecute those responsible for war crimes.

 

PSC and other NGO's are calling for MPs to vote against these proposed changes. The current law fully complies with the Geneva convention and the proposed changed will allow politicians to interfere with requests to issue arrest warrants for war criminals.

 

If passed the new legislations would allow the DPP, who is appointed and "superintended" by a government minister, the Attorney General, would have a veto over whether a suspected war criminal to be arrested, no matter how clear the evidence. And the DPP could find themselves under immense pressure from their boss, the Attorney General, to refuse an arrest warrant application if it was for someone from what the government considered an 'ally' country.

 

The situation is now critical. We are asking everyone to contact their MPs and insist that they vote against these proposals.

 

Even if you have already emailed your MP on this issue previously, it is important that you take 2 minutes to send them a new message, asking them to vote against the formally proposed changes. PSC have set up an easy to use e-tool to allow you to send a model letter to your MP.

 

Follow up your email by arranging a meeting with your MP at their next surgery. You can find your MP's contact details at: http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/

 

For more information:  Read the PSC briefing on why we should oppose changes to the law.

 

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