New Tax Accounting Standards

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....ew Tax Accounting Standards <br>News and Press Release<br>Dated:- 20-3-2015<br><BR>The Government has proposed new tax accounting standards related to income computation and disclosures by businesses to ensure consistency as well as clarity on taxation issue. Sub-section (2) of Section 145 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (the Act) provides that the Central Government may notify Income Computation and ....

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....Disclosure Standards for any class of assessees or for any class of income. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) constituted a committee comprising of departmental officers and professionals in December, 2010 to inter alia suggest standards for the purposes of notification under Section 145 (2) of the Act. The Committee submitted its final report alongwith the draft of standards in August, 201....

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....2 which was placed in public domain for comments. The draft standards submitted by the Committee have been revised in view of the suggestions received from the stakeholders and examination by the CBDT. The drafts of 12 revised standards were placed in the public domain on 8th January, 2015 for inviting comments/suggestions from the stakeholders. The Income Computation and Disclosure Standards ar....

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....e likely to be implemented with effect from the 1st day of April, 2015 and shall accordingly apply to the assessment year 2016-17 and subsequent assessment years. This was stated by Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister of State in Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.<BR> News - Press release - PIB....