Archive for July, 2010

ONGC has become the latest high-profile developer to voice concerns over the adverse impact of certain proposals in the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) revised draft on its Special Economic Zone (SEZ) plans. In a letter to the Commerce Secretary, Dr Rahul Khullar, the ONGC Chairman and Managing Director, Mr R. S. Sharma, has said that the DTC, in its present form, would severely hit the prospects of its Rs 50,000-crore multiproduct SEZ at Mangalore in Karnataka. Full Article

In the case of companies, if tax payable on its total income as computed under the I.T. Act, 1961 in respect of any previous years, is less than 15% (for assessment year 2010-11 and 18% from assessment year 2011-12) of its "book profit", then such book profit shall be deemed to be the total income of the company and tax shall be payable at 15% (for assessment year 2010-11 and 18% from assessment year 2011-12) on such total income. Full Article

Can Hindu deities have demat accounts to enable them transact in shares and debentures on the stock market? The Bombay High Court will decide the issue after a religious trust filed a petition challenging the decision of National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) to refuse it permission for opening demat accounts in the names of five Hindu deities. Full Article

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act read with rules 13 and 20 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, the Central Government, on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the designated authority, hereby imposes on the subject goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) o.. Full Article

This refers to the Import Authorisation which are approved for import of restricted items on re-export basis by the EFC. To ensure that goods are re-exported by the importers as declared by them at the time of application for Import Authorisations, it has been decided that Regional Authority (RA) concerned will take LUT/BG from the importers at the time of issuance of such authorization as per the following details:- Full Article

Telecom Sector and their entitlement under SFIS scheme and other issues of SFIS scheme.Attention is invited to Minutes of the PIC Meeting No. 04/AM11 held on 5.7.2010. In the PIC meeting, the issues regarding the entitlement of the Telecom Sector applicants under SFIS scheme were deliberated de-novo. Full Article

NOTIFICATION NO. 53/2009-2014, NEW DELHI: The 15th July 2010- The following is added in Chapter 1A: GENERAL NOTES REGARDING IMPORT POLICY: 22. Import of Multichannel GSM/CDMA receivers, transmitters and transreceivers capable of receiving or transmitting or both in two or more frequencies simultaneously, shall be “restricted”. Full Article

The Registrar of Companies (ROC) of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh has served a showcause notice on 11,888 companies for violating company laws for several years. The companies had not filed balance sheets with the ROC for three years. Out of the total, 35 companies are listed and 22 are government undertakings. Those issued notice were 6,112 from Punjab, 4,002 from Chandigarh and 1,774 from Himachal Pradesh. Full Article