Notification No.13 / 2010 – Customs (N.T.) Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Commissioner of Customs (Import), Sahar Air Cargo Complex, Mumbai to act as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on:- the Commissioner of Customs (Export), Sahar Air Cargo Complex, Mumbai, the Commissioner of Customs (Import and General), Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi; the Commissioner of Customs (Export), Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi; the Commissioner of Customs, Ahmedabad and the Commissioner of Customs, Bangalore
Notification No. 12 / 2010 – Customs (N.T.),- Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Commissioner of Customs (Adjudication), Mumbai to act as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on,- the Commissioner of Customs, Custom House, Strand Road, Kolkata; and the Commissioner of Customs, The Mall, Amritsar.
As earlier intimated to you, Writ Petition bearing No. 50 of 2010 (Indian Exporters Grievances Forum & Other vs. CIT) challenging the constitutional validity of Rule 8D has been admitted on 12.1.2010 by Hon’ble Shri Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud and Hon’ble Shri Justice J.P. Devadhar of the Bombay High Court.
A writ Petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Explanation inserted by the Finance No.2 Act 2009 to section 80IA (4) of the Act with retrospective effect from 1.4.2000 has been admitted today (16.2.2010) by the Bombay High Court in Patel Engineering Ltd vs. ACIT W. P. No. 219 of 2010.
Securities and Exchange Board of India has told the government that it favours giving companies five years to increase their public shareholding to 25 per cent. Sebi’s letter to the finance ministry follows a proposal by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to increase the minimum public holding in all listed companies – whether government- and privately-owned – in last year’s Budget.
FIEO said that sectors like tobacco, man-made yarns, tea and coffee have shown growth due to stimulus provided by the government and ‘in case of abrupt withdrawal of stimulus these sectors may again enter into negative territory’. In the wake of the contraction in exports, the government had provided incentives like two per cent interest subsidy, higher duty drawback and refund of services tax in 19 categories of services.
Budget 2010-11, to be presented on 26th of this month, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee should aim for rationalisation of the Customs tariff, unification of the central excise and service tax rates and simplification of the indirect tax laws.
RBI guidelines describe base rate as follows: ‘The Base Rate system will replace the BPLR system with effect from April 1, 2010. Banks may determine their actual lending rates on loans and advances with reference to the Base Rate. Base Rate shall include all those elements of the lending rates that are common across all categories of borrowers. While each bank may decide its own Base Rate, some of the criteria that could go into the determination of the Base Rate are:
In a major step to attract students from the SAARC countries, Indian universities will now slash their fee to level them with that of Indian students. The University Grants Commission(UGC) has taken a decision in this regard and asked the Central Universities, State Universities and Deemed Universities to implement it immediately.
Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to the Memorandum containing detailed procedural instructions for channeling transactions through Asian Clearing Union (ACU) (Memorandum ACM) issued in April, 2003 and other relevant instructions issued from time to time.
