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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Board of Control for Cricket in India was on 25-year ‘tax holiday’

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It was a 25-year-old lapse that few outside the cricket board’s inner circle knew of.

According to documents available with Hindustan Times, the Board of Control for Cricket in India, one of the richest sport bodies in the world, did not file returns on income 1980-81 onwards.

Over the last three years, the BCCI treasurer’s office has had its hands full.

N. Srinivasan’s first job, when he took over as treasurer in 2005, was to try and regularise the registration of documents to the Registrar of Societies Act.

A top BCCI source confirmed the contents of the treasurer’s report that will be presented at the board’s 79th Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on September 27. “Yes, the returns were not filed since 1981, but they have now been regularised,” he told HT, declining to be identified because the report is yet to be presented.

The board, through its auditors, undertook the arduous task of collating the necessary documents pertaining to that 25-year period and filed them with the registrar in 2007.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Rich Indian cricket board got richer, earned Rs 1,000 crore

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Market Conditions may be grim and global giants may be declaring bankruptcy but one organisation is , celebrating a bumper year. In fact, the best year in its 79-year history .

The income of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) this year has crossed Rs 1,000 crore, well in excess of earlier estimates. Board treasurer N. Srinivasan will make a formal announcement at the BCCI annual general meeting on September 27 and 28.

The board’s income in 2007-08 was Rs 1000.41 crore, up a strong 46 per cent from Rs 651.83 crore in 2006-07. It’s a significant improvement from the board’s own forecast for the year, which was Rs 862.30 crore.

What pushed the figure up was the increase in income from the sale of media rights, up to Rs 559.31 crore from the previous year’s Rs 313.62 crore. But it’s not just television rights — every other source of income saw a mammoth rise.

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