After enactment of Companies Act, 2013, the concept of payment of dividend is very liberalized. This is because when we compare the provisions of Companies Act, 1956 with the provisions of Companies Act, 2013 various relaxations regarding payment of dividend are provided in Companies Ac, 2013 Act.
In this regard it may be noted that providing safe deposit locker facility is a fee based service and shall not be reckoned as part of the financial business carried out by NBFCs. NBFCs offering safe deposit locker facility or intending to offer it, shall disclose to their customers that the activity is not regulated by the Bank.
All the Chief Commissioners were to initiate withdrawal from the various fora. The reports regarding number of such appeals to be withdrawn sent by few Chief Commissioners do not match with the total number of appeals below the increased monetary limits of their Zones, which are pending before the High Courts and CESTAT, as available in the database of the Board.
Notification No. 6/2016-Customs in List 3, the goods specified against following item numbers shall be omitted, namely:- (1), (3), (6), (8), (13), (14), (15), (20), (22), (24), (27), (30), (32), (35), (37), (39), (41), (43), (44), (45), (48), (51), (52), (55), (56), (57), (58), (59), (61), (62), (63), (65), (66), (72), (73), (77), (91), (95), (102), (105), (110), (113), (115), (116), (117), (118), (119), (120), (121), (125), (127), (128), (129), (130), (131), (132), (133), (139), (140), (171) and (179);
Notification No. 3/2016-Customs (ADD) Central Government hereby rescinds the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 10/2010-Customs, dated the 19th February, 2010, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 91(E), dated the 19th February, 2010, except as respect things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.
Notification No. 2/2016-Customs (ADD) Seeks to levy definitive anti-dumping duty on Melamine, originating in, or exported from the Peoples Republic of China, for a period of five years.
Notification No. 1/2016-Customs (ADD)Seeks to levy definitive anti-dumping duty on Mulberry Raw Silk (not thrown) of grade 3A and below, originating in, or exported from the Peoples Republic of China, for a period of five years.
Co-operative banking is being aided and encouraged by the State Governments vide the various provisions of State Co-operative Societies Acts. A co-operative bank is a co-operative society, which is union of persons established according to the principles of equality, the number of whose members is unlimited and the purpose of which is, by joint performance of economic acts, to improve the financial position of its members or the condition under which they carry on their profession,
A Protocol to amend the existing Double Taxation Avoidance Convention was signed by the Government of India and the Government of Armenia on the 27th day of January, 2016 in New Delhi.
One of the significant steps taken by Central Board of Direct Taxes to boost investment sentiments among MNCs is the landmark Framework Agreement signed with the Revenue Authorities of USA in January, 2015. This agreement was finalised under the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) provision contained in the India-USA Double Taxation Avoidance Convention (DTAC).
