Dear Professional Colleagues!!!

Chairman!!! Who leads from the front, caretaker of the branch, first person of the branch, so many other accolades for the selfless service. I was fortunate to serve in that designation.

Baton change is only a formality among the family members of the institute, the motto of the family is service. You can imagine how Geese in the sky fly in “V” shape and keep changing their front runner for effective and untiring migration. Even I am also in that juncture and I am getting ready to handing over the baton for continuous  journey of service by giving way to new member and getting down with a satisfaction of serving members and students of our great institute with best of my abilities. I hope that  I have tried to reach your expectations in all best possible manner and enjoyed the opportunity bestowed on me and I will cherish these moments in my entire life.

We in our journey as a Chairman, we always think that we are creating a history in our work that no one will cross beyond that milestone. But in reality the milestone what we have achieved will become a steppingstone of building a great institutions, so we should lay a foundation in such a manner that finishing should be ever shining, strong as basement stone and it should be a messenger of good deeds for future thought leaders of the institute. So that our efforts will succeed in building a strong legacy of service.

Service can’t be quantified in any manner it is only felt by one who has served to the best of their ability and receiver who has felt happy about the service what he has received. I reserve this to show my sincere gratitude for the opportunity.

I express my deep sense of gratitude to all my senior members who stood as guiding force in all my endeavours, my team members (my strength) in the committee for their whole hearted support, Speakers and faculty for their unstinted support in knowledge building/sharing efforts among members and students, teaching and non-teaching staff of the branch enabling us to put a strong base and last but not the least all the members/friends directly or indirectly supported me by giving an opportunity to serve you all, I seek your continued support  future also.

A brief up dation on events carried out in January 2023

To provide all solution within one roof and a platform for improving access to public resources, credit and marketing competitiveness as well as & also help our CAs fraternity and Startups for future relationship, ICAI Startup Samvad was organized under the aegis of Committee on MSME and Startup on 19^th January.

The ICAI Convocation 2022-2023 to Award Membership Certificates to newly enrolled Members was held on 24^th January 2023.

To gain the experience of expert speaker’s on Scrutiny of various returns under GST, we organized Two Day’s Residential Workshop on Addressing Notices / Audits / Scrutiny / Other Litigation matter under GST Law at Infosys Ltd, Mysore on 27^th & 28^th January 2023.

To celebrate the Republic Day of our great Nation, the Chief Guest CA. Ashok Raghavan, Past Chairman – Bengaluru Branch of SIRC of ICAI hoisted our National Flag on 26^th January 2023 and delivered a remarkable address to our fraternity and students on this special occasion.

The following Virtual Study Circle Meetings were held.

Foreign Direct Investment Latest Regulations by CA. Santhosh Kumar.

Audit Planning for effective audit by CA. J.K. Sharath.

Taxation of HUF, Trust & Family Settlement by CA. Sunil H Talati, Past President – ICAI.

Budget words and Phrases demystified by CA. K.S. Ravi.

Upcoming Programs for the month of February & March 2023

The 30^th Awareness Programme “Analysis of Union Budget 2023” is being organized by the Bengaluru Branch of SIRC of ICAI on Thursday, 2^nd February 2023 at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Bhavan, Vasanthnagar, Bangalore.

On 8^th February 2023: Updates on PLI Scheme – Post Budget.

On 15^th February 2023: Recent Amendments on Budget updates on IDTC.

On 22^nd February : Rule 88c of GST.

One Day Seminar on Bank Branch Audit is being organized on Saturday, the 25^th March 2023 at Hotel Chancery Pavilion, Residency Road.

The details of all the programs are mentioned in our Calendar of events in this newsletter for your reference.

Endeavour to Evolve

Engage to Excel

With warm regards,

CA Srinivasa. T

Chairman

Bengaluru Branch of SIRC of ICAI