If you are putting your money somewhere then Real Estate is the place. This is what most of the people might be saying in India. The way the reality sector has been performing and the way the property prices are soaring up, every one is comming up with some real-estate or infrastructure project in India. [...]

Arranging for a safe transfusion is literally like getting blood out of stone. With people unwilling to donate, the shortage has peaked, forcing the patients and their families to rely on prefessional donors who are mostly addicts, said a recent report in published in a newspaper. Any one of us who might have tried to [...]

Law of the land determines the fate of the Nation. Development of a Nation also depends on the law maker, the law made by them, legal system of the country, the administration, rules and regulations and the enforcing and the governing body. It is said that if a law is well made and it has [...]

In the last few months, we had witnessed the rise int he number of people taking loans. This was the result of falling interest rates and as a result of which the number of people taking these personal loans had risen considerably. Has any one ever pondered why are people suddenly taking so many personal [...]

The Finance Act, 2006 recieved its assent from the President of India on 18th April. And from 1st May, all the new services brought into the ambit of service tax shall be chargeable to tax. One such service “support services of business or commerce” will also be chargeable to service-tax. Support services of busines or [...]

Often do we come accross news about someone or the other fiddling with technology or machines to commit a fraud or to steal people of their hard earned income. We do hear stories about someone trying to break into the ATMs or people using fake credit cards/debit cards. Finaly, the UK government has taken a [...]

Whenever I had to visit the courts, certain things amused me. Out of all those, what sounded dramatic to me was the use of the referal phrase “My lordship” or “My Lord” by the lawyers for the Judges. It used to sound so unreal and dramatic. Finaly its going to be a thing of past [...]

Some say Size does matter and others say it doesn’t. I am a member of lots of interaction groups of Chartered Accountants and very often young and aspiring chartered accountant come up with many doubts and queries. Recently i got a mail from someone which i am reproducing below : “hi Can anyone help me [...]

The Finance Act, 2006 (No.21 of 2006) has received the assent of the President of India on the 18th April, 2006. The effect of the various provisions of the Finance Act relating to levy of service tax are explained hereinafter. Service tax leviable on taxable services under section 66 of the Finance Act, 1994 has [...]

GOOD MORNING. DEAR FRIENDS, NO SURPRISE ELEMENT…. … WITH Forum4CA! Rally in small / mid caps has caught small investors napping and they are still rubbing their eyes in disbelief. Meanwhile we at forum4ca had pre-informed and recommended to buy small and mid-caps stocks almost 10 days earlier. Our yesterday’s recommendation on bank index and [...]