XBRL Mandatory for Cost Auditor Now !

MCA: Cost Auditors to Report in XBRL FormatReviewed by Admin on May 12.Rating: XBRL Mandatory for Cost
 Auditor Now !Ministry of corporate Affairs has issued circular that cost auditor will now have to file cost audit 
report in XBLR format for the year 2011-12 onwards

It has been decided by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs vide its GENERAL CIRCULAR NO. 8/2012, DATED 
10-5-2012  to mandate the cost auditors and the companies to file Cost Audit Reports (Form-I) and 
Compliance Reports (Form-A) for the year 2011-12 onwards (including the overdue reports relating 
to any previous year) by using the XBRL taxonomy. These reports, required to be filed in the
 XBRL format, would be based on the Taxonomy on XBRL being developed for the formats
 (Form-I & Form-A) given in the following Rules :

(i)  Companies (Cost Accounting Records) Rules, 2011
(ii)  Cost Accounting Records (Telecommunication Industry) Rules, 2011
(iii)  Cost Accounting Records (Petroleum Industry) Rules, 2011
(iv)  Cost Accounting Records (Electricity Industry) Rules, 2011
(v)  Cost Accounting Records (Sugar Industry) Rules, 2011
(vi)  Cost Accounting Records (Fertilizer Industry) Rules, 2011
(vii)  Cost Accounting Records (Pharmaceutical Industry) Rules, 2011
(viii)  Companies (Cost Audit Report) Rules, 2011

Loans Taken By NRI Relative Can Be Paid Residents 

Loans Taken By NRI Relative Can Be Paid Residents !Reviewed by Admin on Sep 20.Rating:

The Reserve Bank of India , has allowed , now ,resident individuals  permission to repay loans availed of from banks in Rupees in India by their NRI close relatives as defined under section 6 of the Companies Act.Read this for knowing meaning of close relative of the resident individual  as defined in Section 6 of the Companies Act, 1956.

A.P. (DIR SERIES) CIRCULAR NO. 19, DATED 16-9-2011

Attention of the AD banks is invited to Regulation 8(d) of the FEMA Notification No.4/2000- RB, dated May 3, 2000 viz. Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing and Lending in Rupees) Regulations, 2000, as amended from time to time, in terms of which the housing loan provided to a non-resident Indian or a person of Indian origin resident outside India by an authorised dealer or a housing finance institution in India approved by the National Housing Bank for acquisition of a residential accommodation in India, may be repaid by any relative of the borrower in India by crediting the borrower’s loan account through the bank account of such relative (relative as defined in section 6 of the Companies Act, 1956).Thus, repayment of loan by close relative in respect of loan in rupees availed by NRI is restricted to housing loans only.

2. The Committee to review the facilities for individuals under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999 has in its Report recommended that resident individuals may be granted general permission to repay loans availed of from banks in Rupees in India by their NRI close relatives as defined under section 6 of the Companies Act.

3. The extant provision has now been reviewed and it has been decided that where an authorised dealer in India has granted loan to a non-resident Indian in accordance with Regulation 7 of the Notification No. FEMA 4/2000-RB, ibid, such loans may also be repaid by resident close relative (relative as defined in section 6 of the Companies Act, 1956), of the Non-Resident Indian by crediting the borrower’s loan account through the bank account of such relative.

4. The necessary amendments to the Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing and Lending in Rupees) Regulations, 2000 are being issued separately.

5. The directions contained in this circular have been issued under sections 10(4) and 11(1) of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999) and are without prejudice to permissions/approvals, if any, required under any other law.