e-Samadhan portal for resolving the professional queries raised by members of ICAI

Dear Professional Colleagues,
Subject: e-Samadhan portal for resolving the professional queries raised by members of ICAI

The Committee for Capacity Building of CA Firms & Small and Medium Practitioners (CCBCAF& SMP) of ICAI as a part of its commitment to strengthen the Small & Medium Practitioners, has developed the 'ICAI Connect' portal which is a self service portal for the members of ICAI.
The 'ICAI Connect' contains an 'e-Samadhan' portal. The 'e-Samadhan' portal is a query board created to resolve the professional queries of the Members of ICAI. The members of ICAI may post their queries on various areas of the CA profession on the 'e-Samadhan' portal and the Committee will facilitate replies to their queries by experts in the relevant fields. The e-Samadhan portal will be opened for posting the queries on Issues of Income Tax for Members of ICAI on January 25, 2014 and these queries will be resolved by panel of experts. The queries will be answered on 'first come first serve' basis. Only the first 70 queries posted on the portal will be answered. Members are requested to limit their query to 300 characters.
You are hereby requested to visit the ICAI Connect portal i.e. ssp.icai.org. You may log in to ssp.icai.org and click on 'e-samadhan' to register your query. We also request you to post your query pertaining to Issues of Income Tax on the aforesaid portal. We look forward to resolving your query at the earliest, preferably within three working days.

Clarification on Applicability of CPE hours requirement for the newly enrolled members during the block of three years 1.1.2011 to 31.12.2013. - (09-12-2013)

1. As per the Statement on CPE a member is exempted only for the particular calendar year during which he gets his membership for the first time.

2.  For Example: members enrolled at any point of time during the Calendar year 2011 (1st January-31st December, 2011) are exempted for the Calendar Year 2011. For the Calendar Years 2012 & 2013 they would be required to comply with proportionate CPE hours requirement. Members enrolled during the year 2011 with COP would be required to complete 60 CPE hours in the calendar year 2012 and 13. Out of 60 CPE hours, minimum 40 CPE hours should be under Structured Learning and 20 CPE hours under Structured/Unstructured Learning as per choice and Non-COP holders are required to complete 30 CPE hours under Structured/Unstructured Learning as per choice.

3   members enrolled at any point of time during the Calendar year 2012 (1st January-31st December, 2012) are exempted for the Calendar Year 2012. For the Calendar Year 2013 they would be required to comply with proportionate CPE hours requirement. Members enrolled during the year 2012 with COP would be required to complete 30 CPE hours for the calendar year 2013. Out of 30 CPE hours minimum 20 CPE hours should be under Structured Learning and 10 CPE hours under Structured/Unstructured Learning as per choice and Non-COP holders are required to complete 15 CPE hours under Structured/Unstructured Learning as per choice for the calendar year 2013.

4   members enrolled at any point of time during the Calendar year 2013 (1st January-31st December, 2013) whether holding COP or not are exempted for this block of three years (2011 to 2013)

5.  ICAI’s CPE Advisory on Unstructured Learning and prescribed format for claiming Unstructured CPE Credit hours is available at URL: http://www.cpeicai.org/Advisory-Unstructured%20Learning%20Activities.pdf.

Source: ICAI Website