Notification No. 46/2011 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, (Department of Revenue), Central Board of Direct Taxes, number S.O. 734(E), dated the 31st July, 2001, namely:-
WHEREAS section 11 of the Act prescribes that no person, save as otherwise provided in the Act, shall accept foreign contribution unless such person obtains a certificate of registration or prior permission of the Central Government and therefore, acceptance of foreign contribution without obtaining registration or prior permission from the Central Government constitutes an offence under the Act.
Circular No. 951/12/2011 -CX, dated the 26th August, 2011 With the approval of the Competent Authority it has been decided to re-designate the officers representing the Department before the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) with immediate effect. The new designations will be as follows:-
NOTIFICATION NO.62/2011-CUSTOMS (N.T.) 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 September, 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.
Please refer to SEBI Circular, dated 26-11-2010 & 31-3-2011, regarding FII investment in the corporate bonds issued by Indian companies which are in the infrastructure sector, where ‘infrastructure’ is defined in terms of the extant guidelines on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB).
CIRCULAR NO. MIRSD/19/2011, DATED 26-8-2011 Henceforth all complaints shall be forwarded electronically through SCORES only. You are hereby directed to view the pending complaints at http://scores.gov.in/admin and submit the ATR along with supporting documents electronically in SCORES. Please note that updation of action taken would not be possible with physical ATRs. Hence, submission of physical ATR will not be accepted for complaints lodged in SCORES.
A notice under section 158BC cannot be equated with that of notice under section 148. A notice under section 158BC provides for a procedure to be adopted for block assessment under which, the Assessing Officer shall serve a notice requiring the assessee to furnish his return within such time not being less than 15 days but not more than 45 days as specified in the notice. Therefore, the time to be granted to the assessee in terms of section 158BC is a minimum of 15 days and a maximum of 45 days.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi has signed a DTAA with the India – Taipei Association in Taipei. Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) on August 17 announced that Taiwan’s income tax agreement and protocol with India entered into force on August 12 and will apply to income derived from Taiwan on or after January 1, 2012, and to income derived from India on or after April 1, 2012. The agreement has been entered under section 90A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 wherein any “specified association” in India may enter into a DTAA with any “specified association” in a “specified territory” outside India. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi and India – Taipei Association in Taipei have been notified as “specified associations” and “the territory in which the taxation law administered by the Ministry of Finance in Taipei is applied”, has been notified as the “specified territory” for the purpose of Section 90A.
Recently, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has released the Defaulters list and since then all of us including directors are getting much cautious to track the detail of defaulter companies and even directorship in other companies. In this regard we wish to bring in your kind knowledge that MCA has now introduced a welcome feature for the registered users of MCA21 to track not only the details of all the Companies in which a person is/was a director but also his designation, date of appointment /cessation and defaulting status of that company.
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