Amid a debate within the government on allowing foreign direct investment in multi- brand retail, the nodal Consumer Affairs Ministry is insisting on a FDI cap of 49% in the sensitive sector, sources said.
Dheeraj Construction and Industries Ltd. Versus CIT – Principle laid down in the case of Mc Dowel and Co. Ltd. (supra), has no application in deciding the dispute involved herein. It is absurd to suggest that even though the finding of fictitious claim is not based on any material discovered during search and seizure, by taking aid of the decision in the case of Mc Dowel and Co. Ltd. (supra), the special rate of tax specified in Section 113 of the Act would be applicable to such assessment instead of the rate fixed for regular assessment.
In just nine months since the launch of the Aadhaar project in Maharashtra, UIDAI has issued one crore Aadhaar numbers. 52 year old, NK Chheda from Maharashtra has the distinction of being the resident whose Aadhaar number was generated on reaching this milestone. Coincidentally, the first resident to get the Aadhaar number, Ranjana Sonawane, is also a resident of Maharashtra. She received her number on 29th September, 2010 in Tembhli village of Nandurbar district.
Notification No. 55/2011-Customs (N.T.) These rules may be called the Customs Tariff (Determination of Origin of Goods under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the Republic of India and Japan) Rules, 2011. They shall come into force on the 1 st day of August, 2011.
Sub: Master Circular on AML/CFT – Anti Money Laundering (AML) Standards/ Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) /Obligations of Securities Market Intermediaries under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 and Rules framed there under. 1. The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) was brought into force with effect from 1st July 2005. Necessary […]
All the members of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants who are interested in applying for ICAI Membership under the terms of the MoU executed between ICAI and CICA, can apply in the prescribed format after 25th July 2011. The expected date of 1st examination being organized by ICAI for CICA members is January 2012.
Major Highlights- India’s external debt, as at end-March 2011, was placed at US $ 305.9 billion (17.3 per cent of GDP) recording an increase of US $ 44.9 billion or 17.2 per cent over the end-March 2010 level on account of significant increase in commercial borrowings, short-term trade credits, bilateral and multilateral borrowings.
The government has hiked petrol and diesel prices by a marginal Rs 0.27 a litre and Rs 0.15 per litre respectively following increase in the commission paid to petrol pump dealers. The government approved raising dealer’s commission paid on petrol from Rs 1.218 per kilolitre to Rs 1,499 per kl, resulting in a Rs 0.27 per litre increase in retail price with effect from midnight, an official said here.
MASTER CIRCULAR NO. 8/2011-12, DATED 1-7-2011 If any person contravenes any provision of FEMA, 1999, or contravenes any rule, regulation, notification, direction or order issued in exercise of the powers under this Act, or contravenes any condition subject to which an authorization is issued by the Reserve Bank, he shall, upon adjudication, be liable to a penalty up to thrice the sum involved in such contravention where the amount is quantifiable or up to Rupees Two lakh, where the amount is not quantifiable and where the contravention is a continuing one, further penalty which may extend to Rupees Five thousand for every day after the first day during which the contravention continues (Section 13(1), Chapter IV of FEMA, 1999). In terms of rule 4 of the Foreign Exchange (Compounding Proceedings) Rules, 2000, the powers to compound the contraventions have been prescribed for compounding authorities with regard to the sum involved in such contravention and no contravention shall be compounded unless the amount involved in the contravention is quantifiable.
Import of Goods and Services into India is being allowed in terms of section 5 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999), read with Notification No. G.S.R. 381(E), dated May 3, 2000 viz. Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account Transactions) Rules, 2000 as amended from time to time. This Master Circular consolidates the existing instructions on the subject of ‘Import of Goods and Services’ at one place. The list of underlying circulars consolidated in this Master Circular is also furnished.
