The newly introduced provision, briefly stated, mandates withholding of 1 % tax (TDS) by a transferee of an immovable property, on payment of consideration to transferor, if the consideration exceeds 50 lakhs rupees.
Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and IT released the National Cyber Security Policy, here today. Speaking on the occasion, he underlined that this policy should be seen as about protecting of information, such as personal information, financial/banking information, sovereign data etc.
Please refer to paragraph 99 of the Monetary Policy Statement for 2013-14 (Extract annexed). Unhedged foreign currency exposures of the corporate are an area of concern not only for individual corporates but also to the entire financial system. Corporates who do not hedge their foreign currency exposures can incur significant losses due to exchange rate movements. These losses may reduce their capacity to service the loans taken from the banking system and thereby affect the health of the banking system.
Please refer to the paragraph 77 (extract enclosed) of the Monetary Policy Statement for 2013-14 announced on May 3, 2013. It was indicated therein that the final guidelines on capital requirements for banks’ exposures to central counter parties, based on the interim framework of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), will be issued by end-June 2013.
