Although the production capacity, production, and sales of the domestic industry have gone up and the profitability has become less negative during the POI vis-a-vis the base year, significant increase in import volumes at dumped prices has resulted in substantial price undercutting and price suppression. The situation of domestic industry continues to be vulnerable and dumped imports from the subject country continue to cause a substantial injury to the domestic industry. Should the present anti dumping duties be revoked, injury to the domestic industry is likely to continue and intensify.
In exercise of the powers conferred under Paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-14, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following amendments in Handbook of Procedures.
In continuation of previous articles, elaborating the difficulties in getting the refund claim under different services, we in this article are unveiling the problems existing in the Service tax refund mechanism under Services of purchase or sale of foreign currency, including money changing provided to an exporter in relation to export goods (Section 65(105)(zm)) & (Section 65(105)(zzk)) and (i) Services provided in relation to collection of export bills, (ii) Services provided in relation to export letters of credit such as advising commission, advising amendment, confirmation charges (Section 65(105)(zm)).
Please refer to our circular letter DBOD.AML.No.8299/14.06.057/2009-10 dated November 11, 2009. We have since received from Government of India (Ministry of External Affairs) copy of note dated December 3, 2009 from the Chairman of UN Security Council’s 1267 Committee regarding changes made in the Consolidated List of Individuals and entities linked to Al-Qaida and Taliban (copy enclosed).
Attention of Authorized Dealer Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to the A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 46 dated January 2, 2009, A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 64 dated April 28, 2009 and A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 71 dated June 30, 2009 relating to External Commercial Borrowings (ECB).
Secure Meters Ltd. („the assessee?) is engaged in the business of manufacture of energy meters. The Assessing Officer (AO) inter-alia disallowed expenses on the issue of convertible debentures on the basis that it was capital in nature. This was confirmed by the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals). On further appeal, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal („Tribunal?), however, held that the expenses on issue of debentures was allowable as a revenue expenditure. Aggrieved by the decision of the Tribunal, the Revenue filed an appeal before the Rajasthan High Court.
An in-depth appraisal of the Income-tax Ombudsman in Mumbai: How effective is it and what can be done to improve its functioning?
Introduction: Reaping benefits of privatisation, liberalisation and globalisation, many Indian companies, especially the IT and ITES companies, have been able to establish thumping international presence. To ensure timely delivery, installation, customisation and maintenance of products and rendering of services outside India, these companies have established branches or subsidiaries outside India or entered into various arrangements […]
S. 115JB(1) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (Act in short) provides for payment of a minimum alternate tax in case the Income-tax computed on the total income falls short of 10% of the book profits of the company. For ensuring that companies do not adopt accounting practices to render the provision otiose, Ss.(2) requires the profit and loss account of companies to be prepared as per Parts II and III of Schedule VI to the Companies Act, 1956. Proviso to this sub-section further ensures that the accounting policies, accounting standards and the method and rates of depreciation adopted for the purposes of S. 210 of the Companies Act, are not varied while computing ‘book profit’ u/s.115JB.
Almost a year after it was rattled by the Satyam scam, auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Monday announced a sudden change of leadership of India operations as its chairman Ramesh Rajan stepped down prematurely to make way for Gautam Banerjee, who takes over from Singapore with immediate effect.
