None of the provisions provided for personal penalty on partners / proprietor of the firm. However, section 77 talks of any person but such expression ‘any person’ does not imply more than one person or ‘firm as well as partner’ for the same offence. If it is meant to be such, it may result in double penalty or even more.
Reduction of threshold limit for mandatory e-payment of Central Excise duty to Rupees One lakh – Notification No. 15/2013 – Central Excise (N.T.)
The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, sub-section (i) vide notification No. 45/2000-Central Excise (N.T.), G.S.R. 575(E), dated the 30th June, 2000 and was last amended vide notification No. 9/2007 – C.E. (N.T.), G.S.R 149 (E), dated the 1st March, 2007.
Notification No 16/2013-Service Tax -Reduction of threshold limit for mandatory e-payment of Service Tax duty to Rupees One lakh w.e.f. 1st day of January, 2014.
The Reserve Bank of India today released the statutory Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2012-13. This Report presents the performance and salient policy measures relating to the banking sector during 2012-13.
The MCA has issued the draft of Companies (Cost Records and Cost Audit) Rules, 2013 under Phase 6. These draft rules are open for public comments till 19 December 2013 and 06 December 2013, respectively.
An assessee who has paid a total service tax of rupees ten lakh or more, including the amount paid by utilisation of CENVAT credit in the preceding financial year, shall deposit the service tax liable to be paid by him electronically, through internet banking.
