Service tax has been imposed on cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery services by the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2009 with effect from 1st September, 2009 vide Notification No 26/2009-ST dated 19.8.2009.Earlier the intention of the Government seemed to be to treat the medical profession as service in public domain and hence medical profession was kept out of the purview of service tax. This can be seen from the fact that CBEC had earlier clarified vide Circular B. No. 11/1/2002 TRU dated 01.08.2002 that cosmetic surgery or plastic surgery to improve appearance would not be liable to service tax under the category of beauty treatment services.
Finance Secretary, Shri Ashok Chawla today launched an e-platform ‘NTREES’, an acronym for Trade Receivables Engine for E-discounting. Promoted by SIDBI & NSE, NTREES will facilitate discounting of MSME bills on their supplies to large purchaser companies.
Allahabad Bank, Kolkata, 1. M/s Venkat & Rangaa, Chennai, 2. M/s Sudit K. Parekh & Co., Mumbai, 3. M/s P.A. & Associates, Bhubaneswar, 4. M/s M. R. Narain & Co., Chennai
Government of India vide their letter F.No.1/14/2004-BOA dated November 21, 2008 had advised all the public sector banks (PSBs) to follow the Road Map for implementation of autonomy in the matter of appointment of statutory auditors. As per the Road Map, RBI will forward to the PSBs a list of eligible audit firms containing the names of firms equal to twice the number of vacancies identified for the year 2009-10.
China property market has now become a bubble. This is now turned into a fear which is expected to burst and shake the world economic recovery in the coming days. But now we can be relaxed to a certain degree that China have recognized this rising dragon and is making polices to control the dragon.
In exercise of powers conferred by Section 5, read alongwith Section 3(2) of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992, also read alongwith paragraph 2.1 of Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-14, the Central Government hereby further extends the prohibition on import of milk and milk products including chocolates and chocolate products and candies/ confectionary/ food preparations with milk or milk solids as an ingredient, from China, imposed vide Notification No. 67(RE-2008)/2004-2009 dated 1st December, 2008.
In exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 2.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2009-2014, the Director General of Foreign Trade hereby makes the following amendment in Handbook of Procedure.
Entry 84 of the Union List of the Schedule VII read with clause 1 of Article 246 of the Constitution of India empowers Central Government with exclusive power to make laws in respect of Duties of excise on goods manufactured or produced in India except alcoholic liquors for human consumption, opium, Indian hemp and other narcotic drugs and narcotics etc., Thus, the Central Government does not have power to levy Central Excise duty on Alcoholic liquors.
* All 8 sitting council members elected. Pune made a come back with Zaware sir. Ahmedabad secured its seat as usual in Dhinal Shah, FYI, his father Shri Ashwin C Shah was too in Central Council for 3 terms consecutively.Nilesh Vikamsey came a new entrant to council. FYI, his brother Kamlesh Vikamsey too had been in Central Council for two terms and is also a past president of our Institute
Notification No. 185 / 2009-Customs (N.T.) -Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs (Air Cargo Complex), New Delhi to act as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on,- the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs (Air Cargo Complex), Kolkata; the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs (Air Cargo Complex), Mumbai; the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs (ICD CONCOR), Jaipur; and the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs, JNCH, Nhava Sheva,
