A Supreme Court bench has recused itself from hearing cash-strapped retailer Subhiksha’s petition seeking a stay on criminal proceedings initiated against it after a cheque issued to Kotak Mahindra Bank was dishonoured. A bench of justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra opted out of hearing the plea filed by Subhiksha. “List before another bench to be nominated by the Chief Justice of India,” the bench said.
Section 50(2) of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 provides for claiming the refund at the end of financial year and does not permit the dealer to carry forward the refund to the next financial year. Considering the difficulties faced by the trade, it was administratively decided to permit such adjustment for the year 2009-10 as per Trade Circular 1ST of 2010 dated 15.04.2010.
Real estate prices in the metropolis, one of the most expensive realty markets in the country, are expected to remain stable in the near future, a top industry official said today. “The real estate prices may remain stable as the new supply is not going to come in the market and construction costs have gone up substantially,” Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI) President Sunil Mantri told reporters on the sidelines of a property exhibition here.
Circular No. 20 /2011-Customs – It is clarified that import of trim cutting waste or fabric trims of continuous length with maximum width restriction of ten inches (10”) falling under heading 6310, required for manufacture of Chindi rugs shall not be subjected to restrictions imposed by the present policy of ITC (HS) Code 6310 and shall be cleared without an import licence.
Circular No. 19 /2011-Customs – DGFT Notification No.44 (RE-2000)/1997-2002 dated 24.11.2000 provides for labeling of the goods imported into India which are covered by the provisions of ‘Standards of Weights & Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977’. This Notification mandates that compliance of labeling conditions have to be ensured before the import consignment of such commodities are cleared by Customs for home consumption.
Transfers of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Members (April 2011) – In pursuance of the consultations of the collegium of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice-Presidents, the following Members of the Tribunal are hereby transferred in public interest, in the same capacity, to the Bench/es of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal as shown against their names.
EOUs are eligible for Chapter 3 benefits without “Declaration of Intent” on shipping bills for the period 1.4.2008 till 31.12.2010. EOU shipping bills are not treated as “free shipping bills”. Hence, DGFT clarification dated 4.3.2010 is withdrawn.
Driven by increase in prices of food and manufactured goods, inflation soared to 8.98 per cent in March raising fears of yet another hike in key policy rates by the Reserve Bank next month.Headline inflation, measured by movement in wholesale prices, at near 9 per cent in March was much above the RBI”s projection of 8 per cent. As a result, experts feel the central bank may take further steps to tame rate of price rise at its annual policy to be announced on May 3.
The Supreme Court today directed Mahindra Satyam to make its presentation before the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) relating to its tax dispute within two weeks, and also asked it to furnish a bank guarantee of Rs 617 crore by April 25. “Within two weeks the petitioner company (Mahindra Satyam) would file a comprehensive petition making its representation before CBDT giving all requisite information for re-assessment of income for year 2003-2004 to 2008-09,”, the bench said.
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India had put up during draft rules under section 43A and 79 of Information Technology Act, 2000. Section 43A provides for compensation for failure to protect senry sitive personal data by body corporates, who are expected to implement and maintain reasonable security practices and procedures as prescribed by Central Government. In this regard, the draft rules lay down for compulsory Privacy Policy by body corporates and also provide for restriction on disclosure of information to third party, which cannot be made except with prior permission of the information providers.
