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Notification No. 69/2011-Customs Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts goods of the description as specified in column (3) of the Table appended hereto and falling under the Chapter, Heading, Sub-heading or tariff item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, when imported into India from Japan, from so much of the duty of customs leviable thereon as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the aforesaid Table:
The Board considered the Report of the Takeover Regulations Advisory Committee (TRAC) and accepted most of the recommendations of TRAC. Major among them include the following: (a) Initial trigger threshold increased to 25 % from the existing 15%. (b) There shall be no separate provision for non-compete fees and all shareholders shall be given exit at the same price.
Notification No. 68/2011-Customs Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 46/2011-Customs, dated the 1st June, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 423 (E), dated the 1st June, 2011, namely:-
Guidelines for professional accountants on Know You Client (KYC), as finalised by the study group under the convenorship of my Central Council colleague CA. Charanjot S. Nanda as constituted by the Ethical Standards Board of the Institute, under which the practicing members are required to gather information about their clients for whom they are doing attest function have been approved. These guidelines will be recommendatory in nature.
Circular No. 33/2011-Customs – In order to reduce the transaction cost of the importers and expedite the time taken for customs clearance the Board has decided to make e-payment of duty mandatory for the importers paying an amount of Rupees one lakh or more per transaction. Additionally, for Accredited Clients under the Customs Accredited Client Programme irrespective of any amount of duty, the Customs duty will have to be paid through E- payment mode only. The date from which the E- payment will be made mandatory will be notified separately.
Institute of Charted Accountants of India, ICAI appeal ed the government to amend the Income Tax Act in order to empower Accountants to examine foreign bank accounts closely in black money cases. Briefing reporters in New Delhi on Friday G Ramaswamy, President of ICAI said that an empowered group has been setup to address the case of illegal money stashed in foreign banks and to accelerate the investigation. ICAI president also said that the newly constituted group will submit its report by next month.
The results of the Chartered Accountants Professional Competence and Integrated Professional Competence Examinations held in May, 2011 are likely to be declared tentatively on Monday, the 8th August, 2011 around 2 P.M. and the same as well as the merit list (candidates securing a minimum of 55% and above marks and upto the maximum of 50th Rank and in accordance with the decision of the Examination Committee) on all India basis will be available on the following website: http://www.caresults.nic.in
In order to encourage the student community to take to on-line applications, it has been decided to waive off the cost of application form (i. e, Rs 500/-) in respect of candidates who fill in their forms online at http://icaiexam.icai.org and remit the examination fee online by using either VISA or Master credit/debit card.Students may note the following:
Division Bench of the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi (Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher) in their interim order in Writ Petition No. 5237/2011 Kannu Aditya (India) Ltd. Vs. Union of India, made on 26th July, 2011 have ordered: It is directed that no allotment shall be made till the next date of hearing.
Transpek Si-lox Industry Ltd Vs Dy. CIT (ITAT Ahemdabad)- Mistake apparent from record must be obviously and patent and not something which can be established by a long drawn process of reasoning on points on which there may conceivably be two opinions. A decision on a debatable point of law is not a mistake apparent from the record as held by Honourable Supreme Court in the case of T.S. Balaram, ITO Vs. Volkart Brothers, 82 ITR 50 (SC).
