« Top Headlines » Open DEMAT Account in 24 hrs  Mock Test Papers Series - I & II for Students appearing in CA Foundation January 2027 Examination.  Income Tax Rules 2026: CBDT Introduces Revised Form 161 for Penalty Waiver, Clarifies Misreporting Categories and Taxpayer Relief  ITR Filing and Income Tax Audit Deadline Extended: 5 Critical Things Taxpayers Must Know  Filing Belated ITR for AY 2026-27? Know Which Losses You Can Carry Forward and Which You May Lose  CBDT Extends Tax Audit Report Deadline to October 21, ITR Filing Last Date to November 21 for AY 2026-27  CBDT Extends AY 2026-27 ITR Filing Deadline for Tax-Audit Cases: New Dates and Key Compliance Details  Foreign Assets Missing From Your ITR? Income Tax Department Opens One-Time Disclosure Window  Tax Audit Deadline September 30: Why AIS, TDS and GST Figures May Not Match Your ITR and What Taxpayers Should Do  Tax audit deadline September 30: Common mistakes taxpayers should avoid  Your ITR says ‘verified’, but the refund hasn’t arrived? 5 reasons why your money could be stuck  Missed the ITR Deadline but TDS Refund Is Due? Here’s How You Can Still Claim Your Money «  Justice Bilal Nazki of Andhra High Court transferred to... Direct tax collection: Rs 200,000 crores!... » CLB may replace BIFR as healer December, 25th 2007 The government is planning to amend the Sick Industrial Companies Repeal Act to enable revival as well as liquidation of sick units easy. The move aims at bringing an alternative system for restructuring of ailing companies after the proposal for setting up of a tribunal could not take off. Under the proposed system, the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), the body that presides over corporate revival, will be wound up and the power would shift to the Company Law Board (CLB), a judicial body. CLB resolves disputes between corporates and promoters involving cases of mismanagement and oppression. The government will also set up more benches of CLB at different cities. The ministry of corporate affairs will also empower itself with the freedom to appoint new members. The power to hear appeals of CLBs decisions on reconstruction and liquidation will rest with various high courts under the new system. At present, this power is vested with the Appellate Authority for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (AAIFR). Under the transitional system, high courts will continue to preside over mergers and acquisitions, while the central government will exercise this power in the case of public sector companies. The government had earlier enacted the Sick Industrial Companies Repeal Act of 2003 to wind up BIFR and replace it with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). However, this has not been notified because setting up NCLT was getting delayed due to litigation. Now, to bring in the interim arrangement, this Act will again be amended. The new system will remain in place till the time the government sets up the NCLT and an appellate body to deal with all corporate processes like mergers, acquisitions, restructure and liquidation. That will not happen immediately as the government has to wait till the Supreme Court decides on a petition challenging the constitutional validity of these two proposed entities. A constitutional bench of the apex court is examining the case. NCLT and its appellate tribunal would be designed as sophisticated platforms where corporate houses could get swift time-bound approvals for various activities.