Notification No. S.O. 278-Income Tax It is notified for general information that the D. C. M. Housing Finance Ltd., 1st Floor, Kanchenjunga, 18, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi-110 001, has been approved by the Central Government as a Housing Finance Company for the purposes of section 36(1)(viii) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, for the assessment years 1997-98 to 1999-2000.
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of section 2 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) and rule 3 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 read with clause (4) of Section 65 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Director General (Service Tax) as Central Excise Officer and invests him with all the powers to be exercised by him throughout the territory of India as are exercisable by the Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, such powers being the powers of a Central Excise Officer conferred under Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) and the Service Tax Rules, 1994 regarding any taxable service.
