All companies will be allowed to file their financial statements in XBRL mode without any additional fee/penalty upto 15h November, 2012 or within 30 days from the date of their AGM, whichever is later. GENERAL CIRCULAR NO. 16/2012, DATED 6-7-2012
The Tribunal is not authorized to extend stay of demand beyond maximum period of 365 days. The decision of Tribunal to extend stay of demand beyond 365 days amounted to contravention of provisions of the law.( Ecom Gill Coffee Trading Private Limited and B. Fouress Private Limited v. CIT (ITA. No. 160&161/2012)]
While the gift is given by a person to another person who is personally related to him, the remission of trading liability takes place in business relationships. Normally, the remission of trading liability takes place only due to adverse business situation faced by a business concern.
Circular No. 18/2012-Cus It has been decided by the Board that the vehicles which are in the nature of professional equipment, illustratively mentioned in para (4) of the said Circular, may also include Ambulance, Sewage Disposal Truck, Refuse Disposal Vehicle, that are pre-designed structurally and pre-fitted with relevant devices and mechanisms that make for their use for the intended purposes and enable a reasonable conclusion that they cannot be put to generalized or personal use; and Dumpers designed for off-highway use (as described in the Explanatory Notes to Chapter 87 of the Harmonized System of Nomenclature-HSN), for use by the service provider in his regular service business.
Circular No. 17/2012-Customs Attention is drawn to para 2 (e) of Circular No. 5/2010-Customs dated 16.03.2010, which reads – “ As regards the duty credit scrips issued under Chapter 3 of FTP, the verification of genuineness of scrips in terms of Para 3.11.3 of the HBP v.1 shall be done before allowing registration of such scrips. Further, the Commissioner may cause random verification of the shipping bills based on which the said duty credit scrip has been issued to ascertain the genuineness of such shipping bills. A quarterly report on the outcome of the said verification may be forwarded to the Board, which should include inter alia the details of the discrepancies noticed during the verification and the measures taken to redress such discrepancies. This procedure will be reviewed once online transmission of the duty credit scrips issued under Chapter 3 of FTP is operationalized
It appears that the entire statements and averments constitute culpable laches and negligence on the part of the departmental official. There is no whisper as to what steps have been taken against the negligent officials. The Supreme Court has cautioned not to give any undue and unlimited concession to the appellant, who happens to be a Government department. In a recent pronouncement the Supreme Court has stated that time has come to reexamine the aspect of extending latitude to the Government department. The Supreme Court has observed that in the era of modern technology there is no difficulty on the part of the department to take reasonably prompt action.
It has now been decided to revise the criteria for declaring dividend without prior permission of the Reserve Bank. Accordingly, UCBs may henceforth declare dividend subject to compliance with the following parameters: i) Compliance with CRAR norms as prescribed by RBI . ii) Net NPA of less than 5% after making all necessary provisions (including provisions required as per assessment made by RBI in the last inspection report).
Reserve Bank will consider proposals from Indian companies for buyback of FCCBs under the approval route subject to: a) The buyback value of the FCCBs shall be at a minimum discount of five per cent on the accreted value. b) In case the Indian company is planning to raise a foreign currency borrowing for buyback of the FCCBs, all FEMA rules/ regulations relating to foreign currency borrowing shall be complied with. c) All other terms and conditions as stipulated in paragraph 5 of A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 39 dated December 8, 2008 will continue to be applicable. d) This facility shall come into force with immediate effect and the entire process of buyback should be completed by March 31, 2013 after which the scheme lapses.
Notification No.56/2012 – Customs (N.T.) Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currency 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 July, 2012 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.
The Parliament passed the Amendment to The Cost and Works Accountants Act changing the name of the Institute to The Institute of Cost Accountants of India at the same time allowing the use of the designation ACMA and FCMA to denote the membership. Council passed resolution to rename all buildings of the Institute as “CMA Bhawan” Council passed resolution to allow use of CMA prefix by members Constituting Task Force for Election Reforms Commencement of Foundation Day celebrations on 19th May from this year onwards. Action taken for revamping the Institute infrastructure at Kolkata and Delhi
