Good news for Baba Ramdev…!!! Will yoga classes carried by charitable institutions for consideration be chargeable to service tax? Charitable trusts organise yoga camps or other fitness camps and they generally are not free for participants, as trusts charge some amount from the participants in the name of accommodation or participation. As donation is received […]
Barter trade was initially permitted to facilitate exchange of locally produced commodities along the Indo-Myanmar border. As such, these transactions were not captured in the banking system or reflected in the trade statistics. However, over a period of time the trade basket has diversified and adequate banking presence is in place to support normal trade with Myanmar.
Under the existing guidelines, residents having a long term foreign currency liability in terms of Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing or Lending in Foreign Exchange) Regulations, 2000, FEMA 3/2000-RB, dated May 3, 2000, as amended from time to time and rules, regulations and directions issued thereunder, are permitted to hedge exchange rate and/or interest rate risk exposure thereof by undertaking a foreign currency-INR swap to move from a foreign currency liability to a rupee liability with an AD Cat-I bank subject to the operational guidelines, terms and conditions as mentioned in the above circular.
State Cooperative Banks (StCBs) and District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) so far have not been allowed to provide internet banking facilities to their customers. As some of the StCBs/ DCCBs have requested for permission to offer Internet Banking facility, it has been decided to allow StCBs and DCCBs to extend the facility of internet banking to their customers.
A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.27 All software exporters can now file single as well as bulk SOFTEX form in excel format to the competent authority for certification. The SOFTEX form is given at Annex I. Since the SOFTEX data from STPI/SEZ is being transmitted in electronic format to RBI, the exporters are required to submit the SOFTEX form in duplicate as per the revised procedure.
Notification No. 106/2015 – Customs (N.T.) Central Board of Excise & Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies specified in column (2) of each of Schedule I and Schedule II annexed hereto, into Indian currency or vice versa, shall, with effect from 6th November, 2015, be the rate mentioned against it in the corresponding entry in column (3) thereof, for the purpose of the said section, relating to imported and export goods.
CIT Vs. Shri Kapil Kumar Agarwal (P&H High Court) -The issue that arises for consideration relates to whether the assessee in order to avail benefit of Section 54F of the Act is required to utilize the amount for the purchase of the new asset from the sale proceeds of the original capital asset only.
The major recommendations of the Report are as follows: i. Insolvency Regulator: The Bill proposes to establish an Insolvency Regulator to exercise regulatory oversight over insolvency professionals, insolvency professional agencies and informational utilities. ii. Insolvency Adjudicating Authority: The Adjudicating Authority will have the jurisdiction to hear and dispose of cases by or against the debtor.
ITAT Ahmadabad held In the case of ACIT vs. Shri Kanakkumar J. Jariwala that mere valuation report is not sufficient to conclude that the assessee has made unexplained investment. From perusal of the assessment
ITAT Delhi held In the case of Luxmi Rice Mills vs. ITO that there is no TDS liability on the assessee on account of reimbursement of expenses. In the present case, the assessee reimbursed the expenses to the bank and the bank ought to have deducted the TDS when there was a contract in between the bank and the NBHC
