On a review of the evolving market conditions and with a view to providing operational flexibility to exporters and importers to hedge their foreign exchange risk, it has now been decided to: (a) allow exporters to cancel and rebook forward contracts to the extent of 50 percent of the contracts booked in a financial year for hedging their contracted export exposures, and
Attention of Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to the A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 24 dated August 14, 2013. In this connection, Reserve Bank has been receiving queries from the various stakeholders and Authorised Dealer banks. All such queries have been collated and are given at the annex together with the answers/ clarifications.
Reference is invited to Board’s Circular No. 28/2009 dated 14.10.2009 regarding procedure to be followed by the Nominated Agencies for supplying duty free gold to exporters. RBI has now issued fresh guidelines for import of gold and gold dore bars vide circular RBI/2013-14/187, AP (DIR Series) Circular No. 25 dated 14.8.2013, as revised (copy enclosed).
On a review, it has been decided to permit eligible borrowers to avail of ECB under the approval route from their foreign equity holder company with minimum average maturity of 7 years for general corporate purposes subject to the following conditions:
Central Government has issued notifications no 29/2012-CE, 30/2012-CE, 31/2012-CE, 32/2012-CE and 33/2012-CE all dated 9th July, 2012 to exempt certain manufactured goods when cleared against the specified duty credit scrip issued to an exporter.
Overseas Direct Investment by an Indian Party (IP) for the purpose of A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 23 dated August 14, 2013 and this Circular would mean the total financial commitment as laid down in Regulation 2 (f) of Notification No. FEMA.120/RB-2004 dated July 7, 2004.
This Court is of the opinion that there has been inordinate delay in fixation of the writ petitioner’s fee. The facts would reveal that the petitioner’s services were availed more than 6 years ago and the final report of its special audit received on 22.09.2006.
We are attaching herewith PPT by CA Deepak Tibrewala on the issues in ‘e- Filing of Tax Audit Report’. The Author has discussed on the following points :- 1. Mandatory e-filing of Tax Audit Report 2. Why e-filing of Tax Audit Report 3. Steps for e-filing of Tax Audit Report
The appellant claimed refund of input service tax credit which they did not utilize under Rule 5 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004. These refund claims were partly sanctioned and partly rejected.
Notification No. 12/2005-ST was issued on 19.04.2005. The notification stated that there will be granted rebate of the whole of the duty paid on excisable inputs or the whole of the service tax and cess paid on all taxable input services