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Services of promoting of a brand of goods, services, event, business entity etc is now proposed to be under service tax net from a notified date (not now). According to new clause (zzzq) of section 65(105) of Finance Act, 1994, any service provided or to be provided to any person, by any other person, through a business entity or otherwise, under a contract for promotion or marketing of a brand of goods, service, event or endorsement of name, including a trade name, logo or house mark of a business entity by appearing in advertisement and promotional event or carrying out any promotional activity for such goods, service or event will be taxable.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1B) of section 35B of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), and in suppression of the notifications of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue No. 6/2007-Central Excise (N.T), number G.S.R.77(E),dated the 12th February, 2007, notification No 02/2008(N.T.) dated 15th January,2008 vide number G.S.R. 32(E) dated 15th January, 2008,
When the assessee is a consignment agent, as the definition of C&F agent includes consignment agents, CESTAT was not right in holding that the service provided by a consignment agent is not covered by section 65(25) of the Finance Act, 1994.
It was the then wandering monk, Swami Vivekananda who instilled the idea of a steel plant in India in the then merchant Jamshedji N. Tata during their journey in a ship together form the port of Oklahama in Japan to Boston in USA. The first steel plant in the country came up at Jamshedpur in the year 1912 under the entrepreneurship of Jamshedji N. Tata.
Notification No. 15 /2010 – Central Excise (N.T.)- Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue No. 25/2005-Central Excise (N.T), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R.305(E), dated the 13th May, 2005, namely:- In the said notification, in the Table against serial number 45, in column (2),(i) against entry number (1) for the words and letters “Commissioner of Central Excise Mumbai IV”, the words and letter “Commissioner of Service Tax I, Mumbai” shall be substituted; and(ii) entry number (2) shall be omitted.
Notification No 14 /2010 Central Excise (N.T.) In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1B) of section 35B of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 24/2005-Central Excise (N.T.) published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) ,vide, number G.S.R. 304(E), dated the 13th May, 2005, namely:- In the said notification, in the Table, against serial number 16, in column (3), the word and letters, Mumbai-IV shall be omitted.
Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations, any person who had passed the examination conducted in regulation 9 of the Customs House Agents Licensing Regulation, 1984, and has not yet been granted license under these regulations, upon declaring successful in a written examination conducted on the following subjects, shall be deemed to have passed the examination referred to in regulation 8 for the purpose of these regulations.
It has been brought to the notice of the Board by certain field formations that they are facing difficulties in issuance of Custom House Agents (CHA) License for eligible persons and in implementation of the Custom House Agents Licensing Regulations (CHALR), 2004.
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 HBPv1
Dr.M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice will release a paper on Proposed Amendments in Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 here tomorrow. The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 deals with law relating to domestic arbitration, international commercial arbitration and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. The objects and basis of the said Act is to speedy disposal with least court intervention.
