The Committee on Public Finance & Government Accounting, a non-standing committee of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, has been constituted in the year of 2008 with the objective to review, analyze, recommend and suggest measures to the Local, State & Central Government, PSUs and other organisations in policy assessment, planning and execution in public finance, reforms in Government accounting system and maximizing public fund’s utility to augment and vitalize economic growth for end beneficiaries.
. On a review, it has been decided to revise the reporting timelines specified in para 3 of Circular dated January 17, 2011 which are as follows:- a. FIIs issuing ODIs/PNs shall submit details of ODI/PN transaction report (Annexure A, B and C) along with the monthly summary report by 10th of every month for previous month`s ODI transactions. The first such report shall be submitted for the month of October 2012 by November 10, 2012. b. The details of ODI/PN transaction report for month of December 2011 to April 2012 shall be submitted with six months lag.
Circular No. CIR/IMD/ FII&C/13/2012 On a review and in consultation with the Government of India (GoI) and RBI, it has been decided to revise the definition of QFI as under: QFI shall mean a person who fulfils the following criteria: (i) Resident in a country that is a member of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) or a member of a group which is a member of FATF; and (ii) Resident in a country that is a signatory to IOSCO’s MMOU (Appendix A Signatories) or a signatory of a bilateral MOU with SEBI:
All concerned may please note that the CS Foundation Programme Examination in “Elements of Business Laws and Management” paper, which was originally scheduled on 5th June, 2012 and postponed for administrative reasons beyond our control, will now be held on Saturday, the 16th June, 2012 (repeat 16th June, 2012) from 9.00 AM to 12.00 Noon.
Would labour contracts in relation to a building or structure treated as a works contract? No. Labour Contracts do not fall in the definition of works contract. It is necessary that there should be transfer of property in goods involved in the execution of such contract which is leviable to tax as sale of goods. Pure labour contracts are therefore not works contracts and would be leviable to service tax like any other service and on full value.
The National Voluntary Guidelines (NVG) on Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibilities of Business were released by the Ministry on 8th July, 2011. Subsequently, a Committee was constituted for formulating a reporting framework in an electronic format (on MCA-21 platform) for disclosure of information in terms of the NVG. The format suggested by the Committee for reporting of CSR activities as per the NVG was submitted to the Ministry recently. It is placed for information of all stakeholders for wider dissemination. Feedback, if any, may be sent by 20th July, 2012 at anil.prashar@mca.gov.in or navneet. its94@gmail .com.
Service Tax Notifications No. 13/2012-ST, DATED 17-3-2012 related to ‘Abatement from Service tax and Conditions for same on specified services’ which is to come into force from the date on which Section 66B comes into effect. Government has vide notification No. 19/2012 specified that Section 66B will come into effect from 01.07.2012.
Notification No. 32/2012-Customs (ADD) Whereas in the matter of imports of Plain Gypsum Plaster Boards of all thicknesses and dimensions, excluding Gypsum Boards having water absorption up to and including 5%, generally referred to as Moisture Resistant Boards, and Gypsum Boards having a minimum breaking load of 24 Newtons in the transverse direction and 50 Newtons in the longitudinal direction per millimetre of thickness of the Board, characterized as Impact Resistant Boards or Fire Resistant Boards” (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under the heading 6809 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred as the said Customs Tariff Act), originating in, or exported from, China PR, Indonesia, Thailand, and UAE (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India, the designated authority in its preliminary findings vide, notification No. 14/45/2010-DGAD, dated the 19th March, 2012,published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 19th March, 2012, had come to the conclusion that-
All services except 17 in the negative list, and those which are exempted vide mega Notification No. 12/2012-ST dated 17.03.2012 will be taxed from July 1, the Finance Ministry has said. Under the ‘negative list’ approach, services specified in the list will remain outside the tax net. The government has widened the definition of ‘Services’ to bring in more activities under the tax net. At present, 119 services that come under ‘positive list’ are levied.
EXEMPTIONS UNDER MEGA NOTIFICATION N. 12/2012 dated 17.03.2012 w.e.f. 01.07.2012 1. Services provided to the United Nations or a specified international organization; 2. Health care services by a clinical establishment, an authorised medical practitioner or para-medics; 3. Services by a veterinary clinic in relation to health care of animals or birds; 4. Services by an entity registered under section 12AA of the Income tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) by way of charitable activities;
