CBI has arrested an Income Tax Officer, Ward-I, Gudiwada, East Godavari District (Andhra Pradesh) for demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs. 1.50 lakh from the Complainant.CBI laid a trap and caught the Income Tax Officer red handed while demanding & accepting the bribe of Rs.1,50,000/- as part payment of total bribe from the Complainant.
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The Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Republic of Maldives signed two Agreements – for the Exchange of Information with respect to Taxes and for the avoidance of double taxation of income derived from international air transport on 11th April, 2016 during the visit of Hon’ble President of Maldives to New Delhi.
It has been brought to the notice that courier agencies abroad are refusing to book bonafide gift consignments for export to India citing non-clearance and embargo imposed on such gift-parcels by Indian Customs.
G.S.R. 414(E).–In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clause (k) and clause (m) of sub-section (2) of section 59 read with section 44 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 (1 of 2014), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2014
Some complaints were received claiming that applications had been treated as abandoned even though the reply on behalf of the applicants were submitted but the same were not considered by the office; some complaints were also received to the effect that the examination reports containing office objections were not received by the applicants or their authorized agents in time due to which the response could not be filed and the applications have been wrongfully treated as abandoned.
e-commerce means buying and selling of goods and services including digital products, conducted over digital and electronic network. For the purposes of merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) e-commerce shall mean the export of goods hosted on a website accessible through the internet to a purchaser.
It was held that In case of amalgamation of companies appointed date as per Amalgamation Scheme is required to be taken as the date of amalgamation and not the date on which entire formalities were completed and the service provided by assessee from the appointed date to Amalgamating Company is to be considered as provided to self, in which case, no service tax liability would arise against them.
It was held that mere non-payment of duties is not equivalent to collusion or wilful misstatement or suppression of facts, otherwise there would be no situation for which ordinary limitation period would apply.
Initiation of anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of Hot-rolled flat products of alloy or non-alloy steel in coils of a width upto 2100mm and thickness upto 25mm and Hot-rolled flat products of alloy or non-alloy steel not in coils (commonly known as sheets and plates) of a width upto 4950 mm and thickness upto 150mm, originating in or exported from China PR, Japan, Russia, Korea RP, Brazil and Indonesia.
