It has been brought to our notice that since co-operative credit societies are not even sub-members of clearing houses, members of such co-operative credit societies who do not have bank accounts face difficulties in collection of account payee cheques drawn in their name. With a view to mitigating the difficulties faced by the members of co-operative credit societies in collection of account payee cheques, it is clarified that collecting banks may consider collecting account payee cheques drawn for an amount not exceeding Rs.50,000/- to the account of their customers who are co-operative credit societies, if the payees of such cheques are the constituents of such co-operative credit societies. While collecting the cheques as aforesaid, banks should obtain a clear undertaking in writing from the co-operative credit societies concerned that, upon realization, the proceeds of the cheques will be credited only to the account of the member of the co-operative credit society who is the payee named in the cheque. This shall, however, be subject to the fulfillment of the requirements of the provisions of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, including Section 131 thereof.
we further advise that the RRBs eligible to open branches in Tier 3 to Tier 6 centres may do so without prior approval of RBI and approach the Regional Office of RBI for, post-facto automatic, issue of the licence/s. The licence should be displayed in the premise of the branch so opened for information of its customers/ public to instill confidence in them that the bank branch is authorized to conduct banking business.
Recently, incidents of unauthorized /fraudulent withdrawals at ATMs have come to the notice of RBI. It is important to arrest the incidents of such frauds in order to further encourage card based transactions in the country where the use of credit/debit cards plays an important role. It is therefore decided that banks make take steps to put in place a system of online alerts for all types of transactions irrespective of the amount, involving usage of cards at various channels. This measure is expected to encourage further usage of cards at various delivery channels. Banks may implement this measure latest by June 30, 2011.
RPCD.CO.RCB.BC.No.57/07.02.03/2010-11- We advise that in a meeting of ‘Committee on Investors Education and Protection Fund’ held by the Government of India, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi, it has, inter-alia, been decided that banks should make ‘investor awareness’ as one of the agenda items in their periodical meetings with their customers at semi urban/rural branches so that more people are covered under the programme.
Major national cooperatives today demanded that they should be kept out of the proposed direct tax code and continued to be given income tax exemption. They sought early approval to the Constitutional Amendment Bill on cooperative that was tabled in Parliament two years back. “Cooperatives should be kept out of the direct tax code that is to be operationalised in 2012 and the income tax exemption that is being provided under section 80 B should be continued,” National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) President Chandrapal Singh Yadav told reporters on the sidelines of the North Zone Cooperative Conference.
Please refer to Circular No. IMD/FII&C/32/2008 dated October 16, 2008 read with Circular No. IMD/FII&C/34/2008 dated October 20, 2008 and Circular No. IMD/FII&C/4/2010 dated June 29, 2010 related to reporting of information pertaining to securities lent by the FIIs to entities abroad. Based on these circulars, FIIs have been submitting weekly reports based on which disclosures have been made available for public dissemination at http://203. 199.12.5 1/SecuritiesLentMain.html every Tuesday. The reports filed by the FIIs have been reviewed and it is noted that as on March 04, 2011 there are no outstanding short positions reported by the FIIs. While the prohibition on the activity of synthetic short continues, the FIIs are no longer required to file these reports, with effect from the date of this circular, as there are no outstanding short positions.
Notification No. 16/2011- Income Tax “Certificate for deduction at lower rates or no deduction of tax from income other than dividends. 28AA. (1) Where the Assessing Officer, on an application made by a person under sub-rule (1) of rule 28 is satisfied that existing and estimated tax liability of a person justifies deduction of tax at lower rate or no deduction of tax, as the case may be, the Assessing Officer shall issue a certificate in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 197 for deduction of tax at such lower rate or no deduction of tax.
Notification No. 24/2011 – Customs (N.T.), 29th March, 2011. S.O. (E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.14/2011-CUSTOMS (N.T.), dated the 24th February, 2011 vide number S.O. 430 (E), dated the 24th February, 2011, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currency specified in column (2) of each of Schedule I and Schedule II annexed hereto into Indian currency or vice versa shall, with effect from 1st April, 2011 be the rate mentioned against it in the corresponding entry in column (3) thereof, for the purpose of the said section, relating to imported and export goods.
In a massive anti-graft exercise, Malaysian authorities today arrested two senior customs officers for alleged money laundering and corruption involving billions of dollars in uncollected taxes. The arrests came after a massive nationwide operation involving several government agencies.
The Supreme Court today allowed a two-day extension to the CBI to file on April 2 its charge sheet against former Telecom Minister A Raja and others in the 2G spectrum allocation case even as the agency said it was readying an 80,000-page document for submission.
